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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I am totally opposed to a nuclear dump. It is madness to even contemplate it.
dont support it here ! not in australia radioactive waste is a no-no
Keep it in the ground!!!!
NO,NO,NO. Never. Save our land and our environment.
From the start to, a never ending finish, this is wrong on so many levels.
The possible catastrophe, of something happening to the ship, & it all ends up in our ocean.
Why is Australia storing other countries Nuclear waste??
Also the unforeseeable future of what could be a major catastrophe, in many, years to come. “300.000 years” Is a ridiculous amount of time. Anything could happen! If there was an earthquake, the Nuclear waste, could spill & pollute the water basin, the land & of course put Human lives in grave danger!
Not to mention that it is sacred Aboriginal land, & the Flinders Rangers, is such a beautiful tourist draw card.
It’s a lose, lose situation, whichever way you look at it.
If it is so “safe”, why doesn’t one politician, have just one drum of Nuclear waste, buried in their own backyard, just to show us how safe it is!
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How about we look into clean/renewable energy instead of finding new ways to destroy our planet? :)
Oh, that’s right. Because putting money into something GOOD is completely against your beliefs!
This madness has to be stopped. No government was elected to ruin our nation. If other countries choose to go nuclear WE should not have to clean up their messes!
Countries who buy uranium should take full responsibility for their actions
Who, in their right mind, would want buried nuclear waste in the backyard.. Are you daft? Don’t you care for the owners of the land…displaced once before. Australia is not an empty wasteland to be used as the world’s garbage dump. Every inch has been inhabited for 60000yrs. Open you eyes and you will see the souls that walk this land. Therefore, no way Jay should you allow the dumping and burying of any nuclear waste.
How many times do Australians have to say we want nothing to do with nuclear reactors or waste? Our governments sell off every asset the people own, businesses export jobs, our welfare system is decimated and now they want to make us a nuclear dumping ground for the world. Why do people vote for these traitors?