(OZ Enivronment Minister) Campbell mulls accepting foreign nuclear waste

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http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1793668.htm

ELEANOR HALL: As it considers the Switkowski report, the Federal Government is already well aware of the political difficulties of dealing with nuclear waste.

Its attempts to build a nuclear waste repository have run into problems both in South Australia and in the Northern Territory.

But next week the Government is putting to Parliament a bill that would boost the powers of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, to give it the authority to deal with nuclear waste.

Simon Lauder asked the Federal Environment Minister, Senator Ian Campbell, about the ANSTO Amendment Bill this morning, and found him reluctant to rule out the possibility of Australia also taking in nuclear waste from other countries in future.

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