Australian government secretive about radioactive waste in its planned Northern Territory dump
Elder’s death won’t affect nuclear waste dump case, ABC News, Anna Henderson and Emma Masters, The Northern Land Council (NLC) says a Federal Court case over a planned nuclear waste dump near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory has not been affected by the death of the senior elder who nominated the site, September 07, 2011 The elder, now known as Kumanjayi Napurrula Lauder-Dixon, died in Elliot last week.
The matter returns to court next month.
………Meanwhile, an anti-nuclear campaigner says he is concerned the federal Government is not doing enough to dispel the belief that the proposed nuclear waste dump will hold only low-level waste.
Dr Jim Green says government documents show plans for a waste dump at Muckaty Station to hold low and intermediate radioactive waste. Dr Green says some of the waste will have a half-life of thousands of years.
“They really ought to be more upfront with Territorians,” he said. “They are not honest and yet they still expect Territorians to trust the federal Government with this dump proposal. “Yet a number of their claims are contradicted by freely available documents, which are produced by the government itself.”
Dr Green says the Government is not doing enough to communicate what type of waste will be stored.”The spent nuclear fuel reprocessing waste that has been sent to Scotland and France is going to come back, and they want to dump that above ground at Muckaty.”…http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-07/20110907death-mackaty-nuclear-dump/2874942
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