Nuclear waste should be the responsibility of the uranium miner.
In South Australia, it should be BHP. Why export or sell uranium ore or yellow cake without having a solution to legacy waste. This stuff has consequences. We are not baking cakes!
If uranium were any other ingredient, it would be removed from the market.
It is pointless telling all that South Australia has 500 years of uranium left, to extract. No one will want it in the future. And why create more legacy nuclear waste? Without a solution or input into disposal?
This stuff has now has come back to bite. BHP, allowed by government, in my opinion, has taken a historical stance, of saying NO, to anything to do with nuclear waste disposal, as it does not fit in with their vision, even when asked by the Rann Government in SA during it’s first term in office. And asked again, in 2016, on research.
No new uranium mine in Australia in 2020 should be approved without within its design, capacity to retake nuclear waste as a responsible cradle to grave disposal.
Why pollute the planet with this ingredient, having consequences.
Mining companies like BHP should be responsible for the ingredient they sell with the approval of the Australian Federal and State Governments. I do not see them putting their hands up to help solve a problem created by them.
We need a solution, not a site for nuclear waste. Another site could be Ranger Uranium mine, in the Northern Territory as well as Olympic Dams. These holes could be filled progressively with nuclear waste as part of customer paid for rehabilitation. The townships are there and the infrastructure.
Government is showing us they will push on with a nuclear waste site, rather than a solution. EVEN IF THE DECISION WAS WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE. What exactly has everyone voted for? or was this just a PR exercise? Were all the questions answered inclusive of the design specifications, and environmental impact statements. After all, this is just like a new mine approval. You are placing a reverse uranium mine in the vicinity of citizens.
And no one will stop this, even if the initial decision was wrong.
Indigenous Australians have suffered enough, Politicians do not have to live with a nuclear waste dump in their back yard.
I remind all. A nuclear waste dump is just a ‘reverse uranium mine’. And everyone should see it this way.
Uranium miners are getting away with it, and protected by government in my view.
Place nuclear waste in the hole of where it came. This way no new environment or farm will be harmed by the process. We are one of the few countries exporting uranium ore. Overseas, some are exploring nuclear waste recycling as a market.
We may not need to export uranium ore in the future or approve new mines.
Uranium mines are tailored to their tailings dam, when this is full, project is over. Extending dams past their use by date have been shown to have consequences.
No one talks of the hundreds of birds that die when using these toxic, never to be rehabilitated tailings dams as wetlands. And how many will we have, without any plans, other than on paper for rehabilitation..
The deciders, have made their decision for a nuclear waste dump on a farm, that will domino onto the next. The consequences are many. All will leave town, and not one will be a politician.
No options were allowed in the initial discussion for a nuclear waste disposal solution, Australian having had more than 40 years to do so.
A farm is not it,
The solution is a current uranium mine void.
We have one in South Australia.
Ask the mining company, again!
The worst outcome, is they could say No.
At this point, we should ban uranium exports.
Permanently. We also need to know what our uranium ore is really being used for, at a time of countries building more nuclear powered weapons, whilst threatening others.
How ironic, if we were to be struck by a nuclear missile powered by our uranium ore, and made from our iron ore in the future!
URANIUM MINERS ARE MAKING OTHERS DO THE DIRTY WORK FOR THEM!
It is time to ban uranium exports.