The week’s Australian nuclear news
By far the most important nuclear news for this week is the Bill before the senate tomorrow February 8, – the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill. This will impose a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land in the NT. It’s likely to be rubber-stamped by the Senate, as the Australian media dutifully shuts up about this – as usual. Only the Greens will fight this one.
Grattan Institute, largely funded by BHP, comes out with a pro nuclear report, and subtly downgrades renewable energy.
Australia to get compulsory airport security scanning. However, as far as I can tell, it is the apparently harmless “millimetre wave” technology, and NOT the X-ray type “backscatter” – therefore airline travellers will not be subjected to ionising radiation.
Australian company Lynas gets “temporary license” for its planned rare earths plant in Malaysia, despite having no plan for long term disposal of radioactive wastes. Growing opposition in Malysia, but Australian government supports Lynas. The plan is the world’s biggest rare earths refining project. It is being watched as the precursor for nuclear power in South East Asia.
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