December 16 – Sydney – DEFEND WIKILEAKS Julian Assange Under Threat.
December 16 – Adelaide – People’s Protest Picnic – ALP Conference
December 18 Tuesday – Adelaide– Labor and the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
Stranded nuclear wastes: Britain, like Australia’s ANSTO, has no idea what to do with its “interim” radioactive trash
Sellafield to store nuclear waste on site for up to 100 years 
Waste will be stored in a facility until there is a long-term disposal solution NWE Mail, UK, By Jenny Barwise, 8 June 2018
Sellafield is seeking permission to store extra nuclear waste in a specialised facility on the site for up to 100 years.
An application has been lodged with the county council to built two extra plant rooms in the existing Self Shielded Box Storage (SSBS) facility. The facility itself was granted permission three years ago and completed earlier this year. It is designed solely for the interim storage of boxes of waste from the Magnox storage pond which ceased operations 25 years ago.
The waste would be stored in the facility as an interim measure until a long term disposal solution – such as a geological waste facility which the Government is currently consulting on – was created. ……..
“This year we completed the construction of a new store which will hold hundreds of self-shielded boxes – these are specially built 30-tonne metal containers which safely hold radioactive waste and provide the necessary shielding from the waste inside them.”…….
As well as creating the extra plant rooms, the security fence needs to be raised by four-metres.
The application has been lodged with the county council as it is the authority which deals with minerals and waste matters, but Copeland Council has been consulted on the plans.
At a meeting earlier this week, Copeland planning officer Heather Morrison said: “In the absence of any long-term disposal options being available for this material, interim storage solutions are required.”…..years http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/Sellafield-to-store-nuclear-waste-on-site-for-up-to-100-years-fdf84498-08c3-418e-a5f1-f86c0e1aafa2-ds
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Kids across Australia walk out of school to protest climate inaction
Documentary on Forests Under Fire Wildfire – HD 1080p
Radio Ecoshock: California Super Fire Special
Radioactive Show produced a show on the 10 year celebration of keeping uranium in the ground. You can listen to Mr Glen Cooke, Jo Valentine and Marcus Atkinson give their stories and reflections on the campaign that has kept Western Australia nuclear free for over 10 years https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-201811241000/celebrating-10-years-keeping-wa-uranium-ground
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DEFEND WIKILEAKS Julian Assange Under Threat. Defend Wikileaks and the right to publish https://defend.wikileaks.org/
Is the California fire spreading nuclear toxins
WikiLeaks Lawyer Warns U.S. Charges AgainstAssange Endanger Press Freedom Worldwide
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The Senate Committee has now released its Report . It is a wishy washy support for the process– quotes extensively from the submissions, but has little idea of its own. Greens Dissenting Submission packs a punch, as does Senator Rex Patrick’s Additional Comments.
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
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP – Senate Committee of Inquiry
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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.
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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