category: nuclear free at Australian Conservation Foundation

Africa Down Under conference and tales of Australian woe in Africa

08 September 16

Mulga Rock uranium plan faces serious opposition

15 August 16

Environment groups welcome EPA recommendation to reject Yeelirrie uranium proposal

03 August 16

Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Agency recommends the state government not approve proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine.

Global nuclear industry promoters influencing SA nuclear waste plan

27 July 16

Key adviser to SA Royal Commission is a nuclear ‘true believer’ who was behind a failed attempt to open a global radioactive waste dump in Australia in the 1990s.

Australia's nuclear powered PR in melt down

15 July 16

'Harmless'? The dangerous language around nuclear waste

06 May 16

Terms like ‘harmless’ waste are misleading and downplay the seriousness of the problem with nuclear waste, writes Dave Sweeney.

End of Kakadu uranium era brings old threats, new challenges and new hope

04 May 16

The Australian Conservation Foundation and the Mineral Policy Institute have welcomed further moves towards the end of the uranium industry in Kakadu and called for confirmation that no underground mining plans will be pursued ahead of Energy Resources of Australia’s (ERA) annual meeting in Darwin today.

Chernobyl anniversary: call to abandon plan to sell uranium to Ukraine

26 April 16

On today’s 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster national environment group the Australian Conservation Foundation has called for the federal government to abandon its plans to sell uranium to Ukraine.

Australia shouldn't sell its uranium to Ukraine

31 March 16

The country that fuelled Fukushima to sell uranium to the country that gave us Chernobyl

30 March 16