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Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties re “Agreement … for Cooperation related to Naval Nuclear Propulsion”

roman March 25, 2025

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 politics have committed themselves to these submarines, it would take some political courage to reverse course. If the government does not have enough political courage to make the right decision now, then it should encourage the US and UK governments to do the arithmetic and quickly come to the conclusion that they can’t build submarines fast enough to supply Australia without degrading their own nuclear propulsion programs. The quicker everyone acknowledges this and exercises their right to terminate the Agreement, the less money will be wasted.”

The full submission can be downloaded:

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Submission to House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy

roman March 25, 2025

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 could not contribute to the decarbonisation of the energy system for at least two decades, but in the meantime it would deter investment in renewables and storage. The transformation to a zero emissions energy system based on renewables and storage is a complex long-term project that must not be de-railed by nuclear distractions.

— from the summary of our submission to The House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy

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AUKUS and the implications for Australia’s domestic nuclear landscape

roman May 25, 2023

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 transition)
ii) facilitate national and international nuclear waste dumping in Australia
iii) facilitate more uranium mining and potentially other steps in the nuclear fuel cycle such as uranium enrichment
iv) undermine federal Labor’s commitment to signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
We won’t be discussing the deeper militarism and foreign policy concerns around AUKUS but will focus on the domestic nuclear sector risks outlined above.

People interested in and involved in anti-nuclear campaigning are invited to attend and help develop a platform to ring-fence and constrain the wider pro-nuclear momentum the AUKUS plan is generating.

Please RSVP to jim.green@foe.org.au or dave.sweeney@acf.org.au

Date and time: Saturday May 27, 10.30am to 12.30 pm eastern time, 10am SA, 8.30am WA. Zoom details below.

For background see the ACF paper: AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear Landscape – ACF – May 2023 .
See also David Noonan’s paper on AUKUS and nuclear waste online.

Schedule: 4 x 30 minute sessions

Nuclear Power ? lead speakers Jim Green (FoE) and Trevor Gauld (ETU)

Waste

— proposed national dump at Kimba: speakers tbc

— intermediate and international waste: David Noonan
Uranium: Mia Pepper (CCWA) and Dave Sweeney (ACF)
Weapons: ICAN speaker/s

Zoom details

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9256268989?pwd=OFVmNkhYdVFSWnhidUFXYVZGSmZxUT09

Meeting ID: 925 626 8989, Passcode: 3101952

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ACF open letter to the Resources Minister on nuclear waste

roman September 5, 2022

Open letter:

“As people from all across Australia, we call on the federal government and Resources Minister Madeleine King to stop the double-handling and relocation of radioactive waste to a highly contested regional facility proposed near Kimba in regional South Australia.

The Intermediate Level Waste should remain where it is securely stored at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s Lucas Heights facility, pending the outcome of an open review of future management options to identify a credible long-term solution. It’s time for us to advance responsible waste management that keeps communities and nature safe.”

A waste dump in Kimba would be bad news

Read the full details and sign up on the ACF website

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Tell the Government they should Dump the dump!

roman September 5, 2022

Email Decision Makers to Dump the Dump

The Federal Labor Government has inherited an abusive relationship from the Morrison Government. One where the Morrison Government was trying to impose its toxic nuclear waste onto the fertile lands of the Barngarla Traditional Owners and local farming community, without their consent. When the Traditional Owners spoke up, the government tried to silence them.

Now the Labor Government is facing a legal challenge, which if they choose to fight it, would undermine the Uluru Statement of the Heart and call into question the government’s commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

Instead, an inquiry should be initiated to advise on future options for radioactive waste management and to consider related matters such as the suitability of the National Radioactive Waste Management Act. The Act is viciously racist, and problematic in other ways, and needs to be repealed or heavily amended.

Urge the Labor decision makers to Dump the Dump and abandon the nuclear waste dump plans before this gets any more ugly.

Email Decision Makers here

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