Safety concerns about Lucas Heights Nuclear Wastes repatriated from France

Fight To Stop Nuclear Waste In The Flinders Ranges Paul Levai https://www.facebook.com/groups/941313402573199/ 16 Aug 16

Paul Levai Interesting trip to ANSTO. A few concerns that I will post as some stage soon but the main one is that the intermediate waste that they propose to store here is our spent fuel rod waste from the old Lucas Heights HIFAR reactor that has been sent to France for reprocessing and must be returned to us as intermediate waste.

BUT the scary part is that rather than design and build a new container system for the ILW ( that would be easily identifiable) they decided to use an existing design container for HLW (high level waste) because its cheaper and easier and they think it will alleviate safety concerns (better and stronger).

BUT the problem is that NO ONE knows what the French could pack into these containers, we can’t open them and check…and the same container is used to store their high level waste from their Nuclear Power reactors…..so they could send us anything either deliberately or by mistake!

Australia completes first phase of its waste repatriation project ANSTO :The The shipment of repatriated waste left France on 15 October, arrived in Port Kembla on 5 December, and was safely transported to the interim storage facility at Lucas Heights the following day (6 December, 2015).

ANSTO thanks the State and Federal Government agenciesthat were involved in “Operation Cormorant”, particularly the NSW Police and Australian Federal Police who have worked tirelessly on the repatriation.

The repatriated material will be temporarily held at ANSTO’s interim waste facility, which has been approved by all relevant regulatory agencies, until it is moved to the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility…… http://www.ansto.gov.au/AboutANSTO/MediaCentre/News/ACS083033#sthash.RtL9zD94.dpuf

August 17, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, New South Wales, safety

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