Response to Osborne Submarine Construction Yard Strategic Assessment
Our recommendations: 1. Correct the factual errors regarding the effects of radiation. 2. Include active commissioning in the assessment. 3. Include the disposal of radioactive waste in the assessment and publish plans for management, storage and disposal of all streams of radioactive waste, including intermediate and high-level waste and spent ...
Response to Submarine Construction Yard Environmental Impact Statement
Our submission raised questions about assumptions made about the nuclear submarine agreements: "The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is premised on the assumption that the proposed AUKUS nuclear submarines are in Australia’s strategic interest (pp. 9-10) and South Australia’s economic interests (pp. 12-13). Both these premises are false. Many highly qualified ...
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties re “Agreement … for Cooperation related to Naval Nuclear Propulsion”
Philip White wrote a detailed submission, which he summarises: "We strongly believe that the Agreement should not be entered into in the first place. The proposal for Australia to acquire nuclear powered submarines should be rejected on security, safety, nuclear non-proliferation, environmental and economic grounds. Given that both sides of ...
Submission to House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy
Many independent experts have pointed to the unrealistic time frame, the high cost and financial risk, and the increase in Australia’s carbon emissions that it would entail. We provide extensive references to such expert analysis and to international experience in support of our arguments against the nuclear option. Nuclear power ...
AUKUS and the implications for Australia’s domestic nuclear landscape
National anti-nuclear campaign online meeting: Saturday morning May 27 The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen our collective anti-nuclear campaign work with an emphasis on the risks that AUKUS will:
- i) strengthen the push for domestic nuclear power (at the expense of the necessary and happening renewable energy ...
