August 5 – 2 Sept – Western Australia – WALKATJURRA WALKABOUT
September 8 – Adelaide – Symposium on South Australia’s nuclear history
September 11-Perth – PROJECTIONS at PARLIAMENT
September – Nobel Peace Ride 
USA now producing medical radioisotopes without nuclear reactor (no need to import them from Lucas Heights)
U.S. FDA Approves NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes’ RadioGenixTMSystem (Technetium Tc 99m Generator) for Non-uranium Sourced Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) Production of Imaging Isotope Technetium-99m (Tc-99m)
– Enables domestic Mo-99 supply produced without uranium for U.S. healthcare –
– First U.S. source of medical radioisotope Mo-99 in more than 25 years –
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1.This month
For international news go to https://nuclear-news.net/
Read summaries of submissions to the Senate, re the Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. Each summary has a link to the full submission. Obviously the Department of Industry Innovation and Science (DIIS) was not happy with the majority of submissions opposing the process, so now are trying to get a better (for them) result
SUBMISSIONS CALLED FOR – about “Broad Community Support” for a nuclear waste dump in Kimba or Hawker, South Australia
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science wants submissions between 1 August and 24 September 2018. People can resend the submissions already sent to the Senate Inquiry. Submissions to the department will only be made public where permission is provided.
http://radioactivewaste.gov.au/news/making-submission
Making a submission
Submissions will be one of the factors the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia may take into account when determining broad community support for the Facility.
Submissions can be made by:
Email: radioactivewaste@industry.gov.au
Post: The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
National Radioactive Waste Section
GPO Box 2013, Canberra ACT 2601
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP – Senate Committee of Inquiry
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THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IS USING THE DROUGHT TO PROMOTE THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
Yes, I know this sounds bizarre – BUT. Under the thumb of the nuclear industry and the military, the Australian government is working to promote the nuclear dream.
They’re taking advantage of the effects of the drought on agriculture – to push the idea of a “lucrative” nuclear waste dump, to two agricultural communities in South Australia .
So – the nuclear lobby is actually benefiting in Australia – from the effects of climate change.
It seems that Australia’s politicians are too stupid or self-interested to bother about climate change or about the nuclear threat.
The Senate Inquiry on Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. has now 112 submissions published
Read the brief summaries of submissions – 55 anti-nuclear, 41 pro nuclear (13 confidential) , with links to each full submission published on this Antinuclear website.
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EVENTS
More info on these at Action Australia
August 22 – Adelaide – “Nuclear Weapons and the Peace Movement in Australia – Where to Now?
See our page: Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code 2018/ Submissions published by ARPANSA are overwhelmingly critical, and in opposition to the Federal nuclear dump plan for rural South Australia. [not to be confused with the current SENATE INQUIRY Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia.]
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PETITIONS
Online Open letter requesting ACTION to enforce South Australia’s law against nuclear waste dumping. http://petition.dyndns.org/
Say no to the federal plan to dump and store nuclear waste in SA.
Don’t Let Frydenberg approve Yeelirrie uranium mine or extinction!
No Nuclear Bundabunda at Brewarrina – bad poison [SIGN THE PETITION]
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Technetium 99m becomes technetium 99 which is long-lived and extremely dangerous. Any benefits are outweighed by the dangers to other people and the environment. There are things like digital xrays, CT scans, and ultrasound-doppler ultrasound which don’t use radioisotopes.
Thank you, miningawareness. I confess that I have not studied/followed that rather worrying chain of technetium 99, and I need to do so. For the time being, it is clear that medicine is going to keep on using those radioisotopes – in nuclear medicine procedures that are beyond the scope of Xrays, CT scans, ultrasound etc. My first focus is to get rid of nuclear reactors. In Australia, the nuclear lobby is very successfully touting its one nuclear reactor as “essential for medicine” – i.e – “it’s only purpose is medical”. That myth must be busted.
Thank you and thank you for your kind reply. I understand. And, I agree (not that it matters). Australia certainly needs to protect itself because right now it still has a much lower background radiation than the US or Europe, despite the mining and despite some weapons exposure. Hopefully Australia has better standards than the US on for medical discharges. But, technetium is very bad and needs to be fought, whether reactors or medicine.
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/important-to-oppose-production-of-technetium-99m-precursor-mo-99-even-late-technetium-99-stays-radioactive-for-millions-of-years/
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/tc-99m-becomes-tc-99-which-stays-in-environment-for-millions-of-years-medical-and-non-medical-production-should-be-banned-comment-deadline-30-december-2016/
It does matter. We all work together – trying to shine a light of truth on the web of pro nuclear lies. I doubt that Australia has better standards on radioactive wastes. The authorities are in denial about this – make contradictory statements to the public.
The US made a “patient release rule” which allows the hospitals to release patients even if it exposes the passers-by to an estimated 5 mSv of radiation (compared to 0.25 to 1 mSv per year for reactors). It saves insurance money and hospital cleanup. It is also dangerous for hotel guests and workers (especially maids) since many patients stay there. The EU has maintained the original “standards”, I think. Australia, I’m not sure: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/us-radiation-release-rule-for-i-131-patients-allowing-high-public-exposure-comes-back-on-hospital-er-causing-panic https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/is-petition-for-increasing-public-exposure-to-radiation-a-usnrc-inside-job-retired-nrc-counsel-carol-marcus-wrote-another-petition-at-the-request-of-nrc-staff Someone tested an old watch which if worn 24 hours would expose the person wearing it to 70 mSv. I think these watches (and medical exposures and weapons and radium craze) made cancer seem “normal” and then the nuclear industry can statistically hide their cancers under these earlier cancers.
On the 70 mSv radium faced watch I meant per year. Over 10 years this would have given the person around a 7% chance of additional life-shortening cancer according to BEIR (which is a very low and conservative estimate). I think a CT scan is around 25 mSv.