Overnight secret transport of nuclear wastes through Sydney
Radioactive nuclear rods leave Sydney bound for France, ABC 30 July 18
Radioactive nuclear fuel that was used for research and medicine began its voyage from Sydney to France on Saturday night, with the help of 200 NSW police officers.
The highly radioactive content will be recycled in France through extracting uranium and plutonium, and the leftover waste will be returned to Australia.
The fuel, used by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANTSO) for a decade’s worth of research and 5.5 million doses of nuclear medicine for Australian patients, was moved from a nuclear reactor in Lucas Heights, Sydney’s south, to Port Kembla for shipping to a French nuclear plant in La Hague, ANTSO said.
It is the tenth time this export has taken place.
Next month a Senate inquiry in Canberra will look into the Federal Government’s attempt to find another nuclear site in regional South Australia to dump and store low-level and intermediate level waste…….
the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Dave Sweeney said the material being shipped to France was “boomerang waste”, as the intermediate-level waste would be returned.
“There is no Federal Government process to identify the best place and method to manage this waste — some of which requires isolation for periods of up to 10,000 years,” Mr Sweeney said, adding that the Government was trying to buy time instead of solving “complex management issues”.
…….. The conservation foundation said the exportation of spent nuclear rods through Sydney highlighted “the lack of an integrated and evidence-based national approach to radioactive waste management”. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-29/radioactive-nuclear-rods-bound-for-france/10049040
July 30, 2018 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | New South Wales, safety
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