Antinuclear

The greedy few will benefit from nuke waste dumping, at the cost of Aboriginal land and culture

Dennis Matthews, 17 June 14 Little has changed from the days when the Federal Government tried to locate the dump in SA.

They denied it was a dump, it was a “repository”. We won that battle.

They claimed it was for only low level waste. We won that battle by publicly asking them where the short-lived intermediate waste was going to go, Nick Minchin unashamedly admitted that it was going in the low level dump. The reporter doing the interview was noticeably taken aback by that admission.

They kept stressing volumes rather than amount of ionising radiation. We stressed that it’s not the volume or mass of the waste that is dangerous it’s the amount of ionising radiation.

The Kupa Piti Kunga Tjuta were so strong and got both Australian and International awards for their determination in the face of attacks by the Government-industry complex. The Kunga-Tjuta had experience with ionising radiation through the fallout from the British nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga.

The anti-dump campaign stressed that the waste should be left where it is and looked after by the experts at Lucas Heights – if those experts didn’t want it there then they shouldn’t make it in the first place.

Those who benefit most from Lucas Heights want the costs picked up by those who benefit least.

June 17, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, wastes