Japan’s growing plutonium stockpile fuels fears — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

The Fukushima disaster has depressed demand for fuel for other nuclear power plants, but Japan’s plutonium stockpile keeps growing. 17 Jul 2018 TOKYO: Japan has amassed enough plutonium to make 6,000 atomic bombs as part of a programme to fuel its nuclear plants, but concern is growing that the stockpile is vulnerable to terrorists […]

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1.This month

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of the week

ICAN Cities Appeal

THE DAMNED The human fallout of Britain’s nuclear bombs

Kids Striking from School for a Safe Climate Future

Is the California fire spreading nuclear toxins

Beatrice Fihn ICAN Cities Appeal

EVENTS

More info on these at Action Australia

November 19 Monday – Hawker, South Australia – Flinders Local Action Group – National Radioactive Waste Management Facility – What is at stake?

November 30 Friday – Melbourne – Kids Striking from School for a Safe Climate Future. e.g. #StopAdani’s mega coal mine)

November 30 Friday – Sydney– Kids Striking from School for a Safe Climate Future. e.g. #StopAdani’s mega coal mine)

November 30 Friday – Brisbane – Kids Striking from School for a Safe Climate Future. e.g. #StopAdani’s mega coal mine)

December 3 Saturday – Adelaide – Rally : Don’t Dump on South Australia

December 18 Tuesday – Adelaide– Labor and the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty

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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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