Our government is considering unlocking radioactive waste from secure storage in southern Sydney.
Why? To put it on a truck and haul it all the way to either the Flinders Ranges or the Eyre Peninsula in regional South Australia.
Radioactive waste risks our air, soil and water. It damages the genetic and reproductive systems of plants, animals and people. And this waste lasts for up to ten thousand years.
The waste cannot be trucked through our communities. There are too many risks and too many communities that have had no say.
Double handling this waste means twice the trouble and twice the risk.
Our government has called for input on this decision from “anyone with an interest, no matter where they live."
So let's speak out to protect our communities!
Sign the open letter now asking Resource Minister Matt Canavan to keep the radioactive waste sealed away and out of communities in New South Wales and South Australia:
As people from all across Australia, we call on the federal government and Matt Canavan to keep the radioactive waste securely stored at Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Lucas Heights, Sydney, and out of communities in New South Wales and South Australia.
The waste cannot be trucked through our communities for dumping until a credible storage solution is found.
Latest Supporters
Leave it where it is in the secure facility at Lucas Heights.
My entire extended family lives by the Flinders Ranges, as do many others. Radioactive waste poses a massive risk to the air, soil, water and genetic/reproductive health of all species. There is already airborne lead pollution in many rural areas as well as heatwaves and drought from climate change. Don’t make the mistake of posing more of an ecological crisis to the country by making this move.
If we have have a facility why dont you put it some where remote out in the desert say on the woomera lands or at the old nuclear test sites, not near agricultural lands Kimba, or a seismicly active area with under ground natural springs Flinders ranges.
Why just because liberil party members own the land this is coruption nothing less
How dare they just leave that ## alone we don’t need the whole of Australia ruined just leave it
Please do not invite any more environmental disasters into our lives. We have enough to contend with. I do not want trucks full of radioactive waste on our roads. Why would anyone who is sane want that?
Nuclear and radioactive waste possess huge problems in use and ins storage of spent fuel. It is extremely toxic and harmful to all life on earth. It takes thousands of years to degrade and posses threats to humanity over this period.
NSW radioactive waste is a NSW radioactive user and Government issue. South Australia is not a dumping ground for radioactive and toxic materials.
If materials cannot be storage safely after use – why use them at all?
Lesley Killen