Right now there is a plan to ship up to one-third of the world’s high-level radioactive waste and bury it in South Australia.
This plan would impact Australians for the next 300,000 years.
It would enable aging nuclear reactors around the world – now under pressure to close because of their intractable waste problems – to stay open for another decade – more risk and more waste.
Let’s tell South Australian Premier Weatherill not to open Australia’s door to the world’s dirty and dangerous radioactive waste. We should not prop up this declining industry for a few more years and impose its waste on generations of our children to come.
Muckaty Traditional Owners united against a plan to dump radioactive waste on their country, and won.
There’s an organised campaign for an international waste dump in Australia, an expensive “consultation” and social media campaign which presents the plan as if it’s a done deal. We need to counter this push.
The future for Australia – and the world’s – energy needs is renewable, not radioactive. Energy from the sun, wind, and waves is abundant and will never run out. It doesn’t pollute the air we breathe or the water we drink. Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, expensive and belongs in the past.
After seven decades of commercial nuclear power operations, not one nation has a final disposal site for high level waste and the sector is strewn with failed projects, timeline delays and massive cost overruns.
The global nuclear power sector is dying out due to public opposition, extreme costs and the rise of renewable energy.
Nuclear waste is like zombie waste – it remains undead.
Will you sign our petition to send a strong message so Premier Weatherill knows Australians don’t support South Australia storing radioactive waste from all around the world?
Together, we can ensure that South Australia’s future is bright, not glowing.
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Latest Supporters
We ought not to be digging the stuff up. We ought not to be selling it. We have no way of dealing with the waste we are creating. This is a short term vision with long term toxic implications.
come on Jay, lets stay green. Push for the solar thermal plant in Pt Augusta and forget about the nuclear waist that will be there forever and we dont need oil drilling in the bight when the worlds oil reserves are already 3 time what we can burn if we are going to keep global warming below 2 C. The price of oil is just going to keep dropping as everyone turns to electric cars, so there will be no great cash bonus to the state.
no contest no real debate. pollies have no vision. no nuke dump in Australia.
We certainly don’t need nuclear waste here! It’s dirty and dangerous.
Better active today than radiiactive tomorrow.. No No No to a Nuclear State
No no no – the risk, the toxicity, the life span, the amount we would be storing – it is a disaster waiting to happen. A disaster that would be when not if .
No. Radioactive waste is hazardous, and ‘accidents’ do happen. Probably we need to be responsible for our own waste, but not everyone else’s.
No way! We are not a dumping ground for other nations to rid themselves of their dangerous and dirty waste.
Australia should not become the world’s dumping ground for the most toxic waste! So sick of old men who have had their day, making decisions that impact on our youth of tomorrow! I think the Hippocratic Oath should be enforced upon politicians… to ‘Do No Harm’!!!
This idea will harm the poorest in the Sth Australian population, will produce debt not wealth and give future Sth Aussies a headache and a hangover from management of hazard into the distant decades and centuries. Please do not pursue this woeful plan for our country.
Let the other countries keep their own waste. They produced it so they should be responsible for it. As for the premier, why don’t you represent what the people want instead of selling out to line your governments pockets.
I have always been against nuclear reactors. To bring the waste here is just unthinkable!