Antinuclear

Confusion about Australian company Lynas’ plans for managing radioactive wastes

Hello, didn’t Lynas say wastes to be exported? Malaysiakini  Dec 10, 2012
‘Now is the time to ask the court to suspend the TOL because AELB has said that they will enforce Lynas pledge to export the waste.’

Wastes won’t be exported out of Malaysia, says Lynas

Odin: Lynas Malaysia managing director Mashal Ahmad, you have been reported to have said no residues from your plant would be exported out of Malaysia, as your company needed to abide by international conventions that prohibit the export of hazardous wastes to other countries.

This means that the residues which your plant will produce are toxic. All this while, however, we have been told that the residues would be safe to humans and the environment.

Does this not mean that your company, and those outside it but who support your operations, have been lying?
If the residues are toxic in the sense that they are fatal to you only if you ingest it, but it is non-toxic in the sense that it does not radiate any rays or exude any gases in strengths or in amounts, whichever applies, that are highly deleterious to your health, why then can they not be exported?

In an earlier comment of mine, I said that this project might indeed pose no hazards to the well-being of humans and the environment within its proximity, but the way the matter had been handled had caused suspicion in some people as to its harmlessness.

A few things have not been made clear. For example, there has been no statement on what exactly will be done with the residues. So far, we have heard that there have been no plans yet on where and how to store these.

Next, we heard that these would be exported. We have also heard that these would be processed into commercial products for export and left zero wastes.

We shall assume that by ‘residues’ and ‘wastes’ here, they have referred to the solid discards. Or, are fluids included? http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/216281

December 11, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international, rare earths, uranium