IAEA’s inadequate report on Lynas’s rare earths project’s safety
“the report seems to say things are okay, but read between the lines. The IAEA is trying to say in a very nice way that Malaysia cannot do it.”
Fuziah, who is PKR vice-president, said that she would provide an alternative report with the help of an Australian radiation consultant.
Fuziah ‘tears up’ IAEA report, Free Malaysia Today , Tashny Sukumaran, June 30, 2011, KUALA LUMPUR: Kuantan MP and staunch anti-Lynas protester Fuziah Salleh today “tore up” the IAEA report, claiming that it had glossed over several important aspects related to the Lynas Corp rare earth plant in Gebeng, Kuantan.
The report contained recommendations drawn up by the nine-man International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) panel which reviewed the plant.
Fuziah raised some key concerns, such as the long-term waste management plan that Lynas was required to come up with.
“I challenge them to come up with one that follows best practices, as opposed to the poor plans in China,” she said, citing the rare earth plant on Mount Pass, California, which has one of the most stringent waste management programmes introduced. “We need systems like evaporating the waste, and keeping it in concrete bunkers lined with lead. Lynas talks about keeping the waste onsite forever.”
She scoffed at Lynas’ claim that it would have met all the recommendations by the end of the year.
“Some of these things are outside the control of Lynas. How can Lynas speak so confidently when the government’s Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) will need to finalise some of
these recommendations?”
She dismissed the report, saying that “the report seems to say things are okay, but read between the lines. The IAEA is trying to say in a very nice way that Malaysia cannot do it.”
Fuziah, who is PKR vice-president, said that she would provide an alternative report with the help of an Australian radiation consultant.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/06/30/fuziah-tears-up-iaea-report/
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