Muckaty nuclear dump – a foot in the door for international wastes
Senator Brown says it is only a matter of time before Australia’s first nuclear waste dump stores high level waste from overseas.
“Wait for it, it will become high level further down the line as the waste problem for China, for the US, for the USSR ,as it used to be, Russia, for Europe, for Taiwan.
Store nuclear waste at source, not in NT: Brown, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By Jane Bardon, 4 August 2010, “….After launching the Greens campaign in the Territory, Greens leader Senator Bob Brown has called for nuclear waste to be stored where it is produced, such as Lucas Heights in Sydney.
“That is the rule – you produce the waste, you deal with it, don’t dump it on somebody else,” he said. “There has never been an effort to build into the Lucas Heights facility the storage of waste.
“They’ve got it sitting there in drums at the moment and certainly they want to transport that across the country to the Territory because the problem gets bigger every day.”
He says only the Greens offer a different stance on the proposed nuclear waste site.
“If people vote for Labor they’ll get a nuclear waste dump,” he said.
“If people vote for the Coalition they’ll get a nuclear waste dump.
“If people vote for the Greens they’ll have a voice against that nuclear waste dump, and a very vigorous one, in the national Parliament.”
Senator Brown says it is only a matter of time before Australia’s first nuclear waste dump stores high level waste from overseas.
“Wait for it, it will become high level further down the line as the waste problem for China, for the US, for the USSR ,as it used to be, Russia, for Europe, for Taiwan.
“Bigger and bigger down the line.”
Store nuclear waste at source, not in NT: Brown – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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