May 23 – 24 – Adelaide – Australian Energy Storage Conference & Exhibition
Ask the Australian Senate to consider this: why was South Australia chosen – to house Lucas Heights’ nuclear waste?
The appropriateness and thoroughness of the site selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility at Kimba and Hawker in South Australia.
That’s the first question to consider in the Terms Of Reference for the Senate Economics References Committee. It means a journey of approx 1700 Km
This is in conflict with International Atomic Energy Agency’s best practce – as set out in The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management::
“radioactive waste should, as far as is compatible with the safety of the management of such material, be disposed of in the State in which it was generated”.
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1.This month
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Federal nuclear waste dump plan – unnecessary for medical purposes – theme for May 2018
The Lucas Heights nuclear reactor offers a “cover”, respectability, for the nuclear power and nuclear waste industries to get into this country.
The real agenda for Australia’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor has always been to maintain an opening for the nuclear industry. With Lucas Heights and ANSTO, nuclear expertise is continued, in preparation for possible Australian nuclear power, and nuclear weapons.
The Lucas Heights nuclear reactor now functions as a support for the Australian uranium industry, and a foot in the door for an Australian nuclear waste import industry.
ANSTO is not facing up to the reality that non-nuclear methods – e.g cyclotrons can now produce all medical radioisotopes. Nor is ANSTO admitting that medical radioactive wastes are most suitably be dealt with at the local level, near the point of use. NO NEED FOR A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP OVER A THOUSAND Km AWAY!
Medical Isotope and Cyclotron Facility
The Senate Inquiry on Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. has now 88 submissions published Brett Stokes and I are going through them, not at this point able to estimate how many pro-nuke how many anti-nuke.
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EVENTS
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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Say no to the federal plan to dump and store nuclear waste in SA.
Don’t Let Frydenberg approve Yeelirrie uranium mine or extinction!
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Tim Bickmore has reminded me that the IAEA is using “States” to mean whole countries. However, the principle remains the same – the transport of wastes brings risk all along the way.