Antinuclear

Nuclear waste returned to Australia, raising concerns about future dump site, Guardian, 5 Dec 15 “………Environmentalists have raised concerns about the safety of the ship, which left the northern French port of Cherbourg in October. One French lawmaker described it as a “dustbin ship”.“This is not the kind of ship you would want to see transporting nuclear waste,” said Greenpeace campaigner Emma Gibson, who was on board a boat following the BBC Shanghai on Saturday……

The waste will initially be housed at the Lucas Heights reactor in southern Sydney until a nuclear waste dump site is selected and built. It is expected to be trucked to the reactor from Port Kembla overnight.

The government has said the nuclear waste dump site would only be used to store Australia’s radioactive waste but Greenpeace has warned that creating a new waste facility is an invitation to other countries to use Australia as a dumping ground.

The group said a poll of 3,144 people last month that it had commissioned from ReachTel suggested that most Australians opposed plans to store nuclear waste for other countries.

Asked about Australia accepting nuclear waste from overseas, 18.3% supported it, 72.1% opposed it and 9.6% were undecided…….

Most Australians rightly don’t want their country to become a nuclear waste dump for the rest of the world,” Gibson said.

“Nobody has yet worked out a safe way to manage long-term nuclear waste, which can remain dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years.”…..http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/05/nuclear-waste-returned-to-australia-raising-concerns-about-future-dump-site