Antinuclear

Farmers at odds over nuclear waste, Farm Weekly, PHILLIP COOREY 30 Oct 15  A FEDERAL Liberal MP who offered his own farm as the site for a low and medium-level domestic nuclear waste dump, says setting up a facility to store high-level waste from overseas, as proposed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, would be vastly more complicated and politically difficult.”It’s not the same thing, I don’t even think the two issues should be compared,” said Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey, who holds the vast South Australian electorate of Grey which covers the state’s entire north………

A shipload of these rods, which are classified as medium-level waste, sent to France a decade ago for reprocessing is due home soon. With no place to store the radioactive material yet established, a special facility has been built at Lucas Heights in outer Sydney to store them until a location is secured…….

Mr Ramsey, who has a property outside Kimba in South Australia’s west, volunteered, but was told by then Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane, it would constitute a perceived conflict of interest.