Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency shamed into being honest

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asked why it took a media story to prompt the agency into releasing the overdue Australian Radiation Incident Register summaries.

ARPANSA comes clean on annual reports Karen Dearne The Australian * October 22, 2010 DIAGNOSTIC radiology has emerged as the highest-risk area for medical radiation errors, according to five “missing” annual critical incident registers released by the nation’s peak radiation safety body yesterday.

Reports for the calendar years 2005 to 2009 were published by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency following Weekend Health’s exposure of the lack of public reporting.

The material appeared without notice on ARPANSA’s website just hours before the agency faced questioning by the Senate Community Affairs committee as part of the latest budget estimates round.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asked why it took a media story to prompt the agency into releasing the overdue Australian Radiation Incident Register summaries.

“There was a report in The Australian on October 16 saying that in the past six years ARPANSA has only released one annual critical incident report, which was for the year 2004. You released it in 2007,” he said.

“We checked the website this morning and all of those reports are now there, four or five days later.”……….

October 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, secrets and lies | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radiation, renewable, secrets and lies

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