Antinuclear

The Advertiser (Adelaide) tries to be fair about AUKUS nuclear waste, but can’t quite make it.

Waste Storage Issue

Robyn Wood, 3 August 26

The Advertiser published my letter on AUKUS today, though they edited it to remove the cost of “tens of billions of dollars” and removed my sentence asking just what the government was trying to hide from us.

To answer David Harris’ suggestion on the eventual storage of high level waste at the end of AUKUS nuclear submarine life – (Stiring the waste – letters 30/7/26), Australia is definitely responsible for it, even nuclear waste generated by the U.S. in the second-hand subs we will supposedly get from them.

Eventually a deep geological nuclear waste facility would have to be built in Australia at a vast cost which has not been budgeted for.

The government is keeping its plans secret.

Former Senator Rex Patrick recently won a legal case to bring about release of government documents detailing potential AUKUS nuclear waste storage and disposal sites, which the government is currently appealing, in their wish to keep the plans from public view.

August 8, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media