AUSTRALIA’S ROLE IN THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER

John Ritch – ….believes that the Fukushima disaster is simply a lot of fuss over the flooding of a few diesel generators – is one who is pushing for Australia to take the world’s waste…..Halliburton built the railway link between Alice Springs and Darwin and the railway line is managed by Serco, a UK nuclear waste disposal and transport expert.  There is little traffic on the line 

Fukushima disaster, cover-up and fears of nuclear explosion  Independent Australia 20 June 11 Environment correspondent Sandi Keaneprovides detailed up-to-date analysis on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including an exclusive interview with Dr Helen Caldicott. Experts raise the grim possibility of nuclear explosion at the disintegrating plant.

“……….And what of Australia’s role in this global catastrophe? No meaningful dialogue about the morality of the nuclear experiment can occur without questioning our export of uranium, which, no doubt, ended up at Fukushima.

We may be one of the world’s biggest exporters, but did you know that we earned more selling cheese in 2010 than uranium? Check it out with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Perhaps uranium will catch up with cheese, but why would we take the risk on another disaster like we’ve seen in Japan, just to improve the profit margins of multinational mining companies?

Generations to come will wonder at the greed and stupidity of their forebears.  Mine it, build it, make the money and run is the credo of our generation. Leave the problems to future generations who will foot the bill — if they and the planet survive.

Here’s the uranium industry’s plan:

Mine the uranium, sell the uranium, repeat until rich

(Apologies to Dr. Guy Pearse.)

Huge pressure is currently being brought to bear on Australia to become the world’s nuclear waste dump. The view of some is that those at the front end of the cycle – like Australia and Canada, who mine much of the world’s uranium – should take responsibility also for the back end — the non-disposable toxic nuclear waste. Our friend, John Ritch – who we met earlier and who believes that the Fukushima disaster is simply a lot of fuss over the flooding of a few diesel generators – is one who is pushing for Australia to take the world’s waste.

Dr Caldicott clearly despairs of our straying off the moral path:

“We are so morally bereft, it’s beyond my imagination. My country is not discussing the fact that much of the uranium in those reactors is probably Australian uranium which is now polluting much of Japan and indeed a large swath of the northern hemisphere — inevitably over time inducing millions of cancers and genetic disease.

“Martin Ferguson is running around saying we must sell uranium like there’s no tomorrow – and there may not be a tomorrow.  What has happened to the moral base of Australia?  We used to be so adamant about moral issues. Have we totally lost our moral compass”

Caldicott fears Muckaty Station in the NT, currently proposed by the government for a nuclear waste dump, will become the

“…dark underbelly of the nuclear industry…out of sight, out of mind. After all it is only Aboriginal land!  It probably sits over a tributary of the Great Artesian Basin, but who cares?”

Halliburton built the railway link between Alice Springs and Darwin and the railway line is managed by Serco, a UK nuclear waste disposal and transport expert.  There is little traffic on the line so, according to Caldicott:

“…it is sitting there for future nefarious use!”

For the full expose on the nuclear waste fantasy proposed by Coalition government (and possibly the current Gillard government), follow the link here………..”

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/environment/the-truth-about-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-and-cover-up/

June 23, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, wastes