Kuantan residents should support this Aussie international nuclear dump and enable Malaysia to send Lynas radioactive wastes back asap Why not call upon our Cabinet Members to lobby this proper International Underground Storage Facility , agree ? Support for Australia hosting an international nuclear dump An international consortium – Pangea Resources – was secretly (then publicly) lobbying to establish a high-level nuclear waste dump in Australia from the late 1990s until 2002. In 2002, Pangea Resources rebranded itself as ARIUS - the Association for Regional and International Underground Storage - and it is still lobbying to build a nuclear dump here. The head of the World Nuclear Association, John Ritch, is one of numerous foreign corporate voices calling for Australia to accept the worlds nuclear garbage. On June 3, 2007, the Federal Council of the Liberal Party unanimously endorsed a resolution supporting the establishment of a foreign nuclear waste dump in Australia. The resolution stated: “Australia should expand its current nuclear industry to incorporate the entire uranium fuel cycle, the expansion of uranium mining to be combined with nuclear power generation and worldwide nuclear waste storage in the geotechnically stable and remote areas that Australia has to offer.” The Howard government joined Australia to the US-led Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a scheme in which supplier nations supply nuclear fuel and take back high-level nuclear waste from user nations which operate reactors. Politicians / ex-politicians supporting the development of a high level nuclear waste dump in Australia to take waste from overseas include: Liberal Senator Judith Troeth called for Australia to build nuclear power reactors and for the high-level waste to be dumped at Muckaty in the NT former Prime Minister Bob Hawke former foreign minister Alexander Downer former foreign minister Gareth Evans Liberal/National Coalition Senators refused to support a Senate motion opposing an international nuclear dump in May 2006 in 2005 Martin Ferguson responded to Bob Hawkes call for Australia to establish a high level waste dump by saying: In scientific terms Bob Hawke is right. Australia internationally could be regarded as a good place to actually bury it deep in the ground. Australian groups lobbying for Australia to host an international high-level nuclear waste dump: Nuclear Fuel Leasing Group. Head of the NFLG, Dr. John White, has been promoting the groups vision of establishing a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel fabrication plant, and an international nuclear waste repository in Australia. Under the Howard government, the government-led Uranium Industry Framework promoted the idea. Specifically, a draft report of the UIFs stewardship working group recommended that Australia acepts international high-level nuclear waste arising from uranium exports. More information on plans to build an international nuclear dump in Australia Friends of the Earth webpage with lots of articles from lots of sources: foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/import-waste2 Nuclear Fuel Leasing Group, Submission to Switkowski/UMPNER, August 2006 (PDF): web.archive.org/web/20070830182528/pmc.gov.au/umpner/submissions/134_sub_umpner.pdf J.J. Veevers, Disposal of British RADwaste at home and in antipodean Australia, Australian Geologist, es.mq.edu.au/geology/media/veevers1.htm Association for Regional and International Underground Storage (the successor to Pangea Resrouces) arius-world.org 2003 submission and article by Australian academic Ian Holland (PDF)
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