Kim Mavromatis on Radioactive Waste Bill: community consent? transport dangers, on agricultural land. poor process.
Dear Committee Chairperson
I live in Port Pirie, within the Upper Spencer Gulf and Southern Flinders region of South Australia. I’m a filmmaker and have been following and documenting the Nuclear Waste dumps facility process for 5 years. My hometown of Port Pirie,
along with Whyalla and Port Lincoln, have been named potential Nuclear Waste ports by the NRWMF, so I live potentially along the transport route?
Nuclear Ports NRWMF Reference : Site Characterization Tech Report, Wallerberdina Pg 177 Proximity to Ports 4.1.2.1.6.
61.5% of residents supported a facility located in their community”.
In Senator Canavan’s media release 1st Feb 2020, announcing Napandee near Kimba as the site for Australia’s National Nuclear Waste Dumps facility, he replaced the word “residents” with “voters” :Senator Canavan : “…61.6 per cent of voters in Kimba support the proposal”.
facility – all the eligible voters need to be included in the percentages, whether they voted Yes, No or Abstained, to get a true percentage of the Community Support. All the figures need independent scrutiny.
Kimba Council and Barngarla Independent vote gives a very different outcome : 43.75% Support the waste dumps facility (452 Yes from 1,033 eligible voters), which Does Not constitute Broad Community Support.
title rights and this Fed Govt National Nuclear Waste Dumps facility process has
denied them from having a voice and ignored their independent vote. This
process not only has ramifications for the Barngarla people, but for all of
Australia’s Aboriginal people – it will inform future govts of ways to ignore and
exclude Native Title Holders, without proper consultation, and get away with it.
Spent Nuclear Fuel (10,000 x more radioactive than uranium ore) and waste
from reprocessed SNF (still contains 95% of the radioactivity of SNF), which
most of the world classify as High Level Radioactive Waste (Aust classify as
Intermediate), will be transported 1,700km halfway across Aust from Lucas
Heights, via road, rail or ship, and dumped temporarily above ground for up to
100 years on Eyre Peninsula farmland, near Kimba in SA.
process have continually stated there has never been a nuclear materials
transport accident in Australia, but there has been – 2 policemen, cast aside and
abandoned, speak out about the poisoning, trauma and nightmares they faced,
after attending a fatal road accident on the Pacific Highway involving nuclear
waste from Lucas Heights.
Nuclear Waste Crash COVERUP – Poisoned Police Speak Out Nuclear Materials Transport accident – Reference video link :
Uranium ore – Nuclear Waste Management Org, Canada
ARPANSA
Australia’s Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) site
selection criteria states : “the immediate vicinity of the facility has no known
significant natural resources…and has little or no potential for agricultural or
outdoor recreational use”.
govt’s nuclear waste dumps facility process
Eyre Peninsula Farmers – Reference video links:
SAVE SA FARMLAND RALLY
SAVE SA FARMLAND, KIMBA
SAVE SA FARMLAND, KIMBA
Solid Radioactive Waste – Radiation Protection Series C3 – Site Selection : 3.1.22a
Reference Income Figures : 18/19 RDA Whyalla and Eyre Peninsula Report.
The world’s first permanent underground solution for Spent Nuclear Fuel (High
Level Nuclear Waste) is being built at Onkalo in Finland (20 years to build), right
next to some of the reactors that produce it – it’s costing billions – will contain all
of Finland’s Spent Nuclear Fuel (High Level Radioactive Waste) – and built to last
100,000 years.
SAVE SA FARMLAND RALLY
Fuel (High Level Radioactive Waste), but our fed govt process involves
temporarily dumping Australia’s Spent Nuclear Fuel and waste from reprocessed
SNF (from Lucas Heights) above ground on SA farmland for upto 100 years? Why
double handle the waste and move it twice? Why not leave the Spent Nuclear
Fuel and waste from reprocessed SNF at Lucas heights until a permanent
solution is found? Why take the risk?
they’re building a tomb for something that really is dangerous….Right now there
is no permanent geological storage facility anywhere for High Level Radioactive
Waste, the Spent Nuclear Fuel, the really nasty stuff, that can cause disasters, if it
leaks. Right now around the world, high level radioactive waste is generally
stored near reactors, first in water ponds that require active cooling, and then in
concrete casts that will last as long as a concrete building would, not long
enough”.
Onkalo : Inside the tunnels that will store nuclear waste for 100,000 years.
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Kim Mavromatis
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