Beware ‘long time nuclear activists’ as this person is. She and her kind are against the use of nuclear, fullstop. Her article has not appeared for some reason, but we know what she would have written - the same anti-nuclear dogma she has propounded in the past.

Best article yet, Noel. I look forward to not hearing from you again in future.

Can't see Noel's article at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19872 ?

To view Noel's nuclear waste dump article click on http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19872&page=0

Pete

True that the nuclear medicine reason is used to justify a waste dump, BUT:

1. Noel and too many other Australians don't accept that nuclear research and knowledge maintenance at Lucas Heights includes defence reasons.

Australia should look more realistically at the prospect of having our own nuclear deterrent capability. This is becoming more important with Trump/US statements that America's (current and maybe future former?) allies should defend themselves. Australia also faces an increasing China threat.

See Australia's increasing need to consider a nuclear capability at http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/get-ready-china-why-australia-needs-nuclear-weapons-14416

2. Also, as coal steadily becomes discredited/unfinancial the need for Australian nuclear power reactors becomes a legitimate area of Australian research and waste dump preparations.

Pete

Without seeing any article I think there are good reasons to locate a low to intermediate level radwaste facility in upper Eyre Peninsula. When/if Australia has high level waste I think that will have to be stored in the Woomera Prohibited Area controlled by the Defence Dept. Already one such site has been suggested at Challenger Mine in the fork of the Adelaide and Darwin railways. Remote but accessible with the hole already dug and not far from its birthplace if the original uranium came from Olympic Dam.

Kimba is en route to the WPA. I understand the casks of ex-Lucas Heights vitrified material will go to the intermediate site until the high level site is completed. That is as a staging post. Kimba has all weather roads to the north without the need to back track like the alternative Hawker site. Just get on with it without turning it into a theatrical production.

Taswegian

You can access Noel's piece at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19872&page=0

Cheers

Pete