Take action now: Stop high level nuclear waste coming to Australia – Send an email to your Labor representatives (whether MPs or Senators or both)
IPAN is reaching out to you today about this very urgent matter.
New legislation on nuclear waste from AUKUS submarines will be before Parliament, possibly as early as next week after the Senate Committee examining it, reports on Monday 13 May. The Inquiry process occurred earlier this year, with IPAN making a submission, along with many other individuals and organisations, including the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) whose excellent submission is here ACF Submission.
The ACF have made the point that as it stands the Bill could allow US and UK nuclear submarine waste to be disposed of in Australia. Both the USA and UK have large volumes of nuclear waste from six decades of nuclear submarines which they don’t know how to dispose of. This is high level nuclear waste based on weapons grade uranium.
Allowing nuclear submarine waste from the USA and UK to be imported to and stored in Australia would also be totally against the Labor Party’s National Platform where Labor has committed to “remain strongly opposed to the importation and storage of nuclear waste that is sourced from overseas in Australia” p.111 Labor’s 2023 National Platform
Take action now: Stop high level nuclear waste coming to Australia – Send an email to your Labor representatives (whether MPs or Senators or both).
Contact:
Jonathan Pilbrow
(Part Time) Executive Officer
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN)
M 0403 611 815
E ipan.alicesprings@gmail.com
www.ipan.org.au
https://independentpeacefulaustralia.com.au/