US to be Aussie nuclear dump

[seemslikeadream]

By Amanda Hodge
January 21, 2005

THE US will become Australia's nuclear dumping ground in a remarkable 10-year agreement that takes the pressure off the Howard Government to find a domestic waste site.

The agreement to take spent fuel rods from the proposed new Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney was sealed at ministerial level late last year following talks between the US Department of Energy and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

The deal was revealed yesterday in a letter from ANSTO released by the country's nuclear watchdog, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.

This removes the last major obstacle to the approval of a replacement nuclear reactor at the Lucas Heights facility and eases the pressure on Canberra to resolve the dump issue.
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,12003697%255E421,00.html

[BeHereNow]

1. Lord, lord what does this tell us

about the future plans of the Cabal for this
country?
It tells me that when they are done raping and pillaging
every dime and resource they can here, they plan to bail
and leave the rest of us in the wake of their destruction.
BHN

[Inland]

2. The payoff for supporting Bush's Iraq policy.

Australia gets to poison the US for the next 50,000 years.

How can Australia--which makes Wyoming seem crowded with people--have to come to the US to find someone willing to poison their own land?

[BeHereNow]

3. All that outback is planned for luxury homes...

They probably know something we don't know
about global warming, as in that area will
be paradise, and the US will be uninhabitable,
so they have sold us down the river as a global waste site?
That would be my guess.
BHn

[exploited]

20. We may know something about global warming before you do.

It won't be paradise here unless you like dust with your dust. Most Oz cities have implemented indefinite water restrictions as result of a prolonged drought. Sydney may run out of water in two years if there is no improvement!

Lucas Heights is a small medical/ research reactor so the quantity of waste produced at the lesser end of the scale. Having said that, no Aussie wants it dumped in their backyard.

You guys are probably getting it due to some loosely defined friendship clause in the recently signed Aus-US free trade agreement. In return for our nuclear waste we will relax our Australian media content rules and take more of your cultural waste in the form of sitcoms, news and other info-tainment gems. We'll also increase US corporate control over our economy and society... amongst so many other things.
http://www.greens.org.au/hotissues/usfta

We're family now. What's mine is yours.

[Career Prole]

9. That's what I thought when I read that.

Here comes the quid to the pro quo for them sending troops.

[daleo]

4. This means the U.S. doesn't trust Australia

I bet these are the kind of spent reactor rods that can be re-processed to weapons grade.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Are they going to put the waste in BOATS...

and ship it here? Let's hope they have better ships than Exxon...

What favor did Australia do for B** to get this?

[Gusto md]

16. Lots of favours

Your outposts, (weapons) facilites and other 'very interesting' military buildings are located (rather isolated) in our deserts.

I wondering what is going on there.... (now where would a convenient place to launch missle to Asia be...??)

Other favours include ball licking, but both JH and the Chimp get something out of that...

:spank: They loooove that shit

[seemslikeadream]

18. Welcome Gusto md

:hi:

[Gusto md]

19. Thank you!

:toast:

[cyberpj]

6. more info on this:

The US already accepts spent fuel containing uranium previously enriched in the US from 41 countries, including Australia, to reduce the risk that residual uranium will be used for nuclear weapons.

But the proposed Lucas Heights replacement research reactor will use low-enriched uranium fuel which does not come under this agreement and is not easily reprocessed.

[KansDem]

7. This is INSANE!

How will these spent fuel rods be transported here? By ship? A white ship? What if the ship sinks? How susceptible will these loads to theft or vandalism by countries unfriendly to the United States?

Are these spent fuel rods going to be deposited in Nevada? Say, at Yucca Mountain? Hey, Nevada, aren't you glad you voted Red?!

[Ian David]

8. Hey, if the stuff ends up in a red state, I'm happy

But then again, it will probably be in an area with a lot of poor African-Americans.

[struggle4progress]

21. Nevada. Yucca Mountain. eom

[njdemocrat106]

11. A disaster waiting to happen

You were thinking exactly what I was thinking regarding the transportation of the fuel rods. I think Bush would do his best to have these rods dumped somewhere in a Blue State, though. He sure doesn't want to kill off any potential Jeb voters in 2008.

[TexasLawyer]

10. Banana Republic

Yet another indication that the U.S. is selling itself off cheap to the lowest bidder.

[Bono71]

12. Good God. Utterly unbelievable.

[rodeodance]

13. Does anyone know if Congress was consulted on this crap!!

[rodeodance]

14. "eases the pressure on Canberra to resolve the dump issue. " well, sure

glad Canberra's pressure is off. Now what about us!!!

[0007]

15. What Congress?

[sakabatou]

17. "Now, you have this thing called th' Ou'back?

Righ', an' we'all gonna use it for our nukooler waste.... No, I don' care about dem damn 'roos! We'all gonna use it anyway."

[Guns Aximbo]

22. whoa! Don't we have a say in this?

I mean... this is the first time I've heard of this. The MSM hasn't uttered a word about this. Why Not?