Minister Gary Gray is disingenuous about radioactive wastes
Christina Macpherson, 15 Aug 13, Australia’s new Energy Minister Gary Gray appears to be an improvement on the previous Minister, in that Gray at least met with some Traditional owners of land in Northern Territory – designated for a nuclear waste dump.However, Gray doesn’t show any sign of understanding the full import (no pun intended) of this nuclear waste question. He trots out the usual nuclear lobby fiction that the nuclear waste dump is needed for “medical waste”
The Guardian quotes Gray – “Gray ruled out the creation of an independent commission to nominate dumping sites, despite the UK and US having such arrangements, pointing out that Australia doesn’t have “high level” nuclear waste. Most of Australia’s nuclear waste is generated from the medical, scientific and defence industries.”
Gray is being disingenuous, The whole purpose of the planned Muckaty waste dump is to take back “high level wastes” that originated at Lucas Heights, and went to Europe for processing. They are wastes from the nuclear reactor itself, some of them currently going to Japan!
Medical, scientific etc “low level” radioactive wastes are just a fig leaf on the nuclear industry.
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