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Lucas Heights reactor medical Isotopes
1998 Both ANSTO and the government have sought to cloak rational discussion about the costs and benefits of a reactor under a dishonest claim that the reactor is vital for nuclear medicine. In fact...
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Thorium mining illegal in Victoria – but watch this space, and watch Dr John...
The Liberal Party’s nuclear dreams: The strange case of Dr John White and Ignite, Independent Australia Sandi Keane 12 March 2014, Why were Ignite Energy so desparate to dissociate their director Dr...
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A warning on greedy businessmen’s push for nuclear chain in South Australia
South Australia takes first step to nuclear power GEORGE LEKAKIS The New Daily, Financial Services Editor 9 Feb 15 “……..The setting up of the Royal Commission follows lobbying by prominent South...
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Australian governments’ political risks in promoting the really quite...
Given that Australia’s uranium mining and export accounts for less than 1 percent of its hundred billion dollar mineral export business (iron ore, bauxite, coal, copper, nickel etc),36 however, these...
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Nuclear waste generated at Lucas Heights is a very small amount – Ziggy...
Nuclear waste dump needed, SA could fill gap, ABC Radio P.M February 23, 2015 Natalie Whiting reported this story “……….NATALIE WHITING: Is the Federal Government going to need a sight for waste...
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Respected Aboriginal women elders explain the importance of the Homelands
‘People wanted to go back to homeland’ Mr McLarty said many of the small communities were created in response to government policy last century which saw Aboriginal people forcibly amalgamated into...
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Australian government aims to shut down critics of its environmental policies
given the urgency of the environmental crisis, an increasing number of Australians recognise that we need environmental groups who do more than plant trees. In the run to this year’s Paris climate...
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First Nuclear Royal Commission Issues paper indicates an expensive farce
The paper appears to be totally confused by what is a cyclic process. For example, the phrase “once-through” cycle is an oxymoron and reprocessing spent fuel is just that, not recycling. These terms...
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National waste dump is NOT NEEDED for medical nuclear wastes
Is Australia becoming the world’s nuclear waste dump by stealth? http://www.smh.com.au/comment/is-australia-becoming-the-worlds-nuclear-waste-dump-by-stealth-20151122-gl4v04.html December 2, 2015 -Dr...
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Sorry history of the inadequate clean-up of radioactive Maralinga nuclear...
“By ploughing soil at Taranaki without first removing contaminated fragments the British failed to achieve a significant reduction in radiological hazard and made the situation more difficult to...
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Only a small fraction of Lucas Heights radioactive waste is of medical origin
The incessant references to nuclear medicine to ‘sell’ the proposed radioactive waste repository/store amount to nothing more than emotive propaganda 10-20% of the current stockpile would be the...
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The planned repositary for Lucas Heights returning nuclear waste
Radioactive waste in Australia, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) 18 Jan 16 What will the repository look like? “……The low level waste will be permanently disposed of in a shallow...
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What materials will go into waste repositary for Lucas Heights nuclear trash?
Radioactive waste in Australia, Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW) 18 Jan 16 …………….Where does the radioactive waste to be deposited in this repository come from? The repository is...
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Highly misleading to say that Lucas Heights nuclear reactor is mainly for...
it would be highly misleading to attribute this predominantly to medical isotope production given the broad range of uses of the HIFAR and MOATA reactors over the last 60 years. Radioactive waste in...
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Cyclotrons able to produce medical isotopes; no need for Lucas Heights...
This production method for Tc-99m can be used by retrofitting various brands of conventional cyclotrons already in use in hospitals and health centres across Canada. Depending on the machine...
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The massive holes in Senator Edward’s arguments for “new nuclear” technology...
not a single PRISM [ (Power Reactor Innovative Small Module] has actually been built…. the commercial viability of these technologies is unproven Crucially, under the plan, Australia would have been...
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Exploding Senator Edward’s plan for nuclear waste importing
The impossible dream Free electricity sounds too good to be true. It is. A plan to produce free electricity for South Australia by embracing nuclear waste sounds like a wonderful idea. But it won’t...
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South Australian nuclear waste import plan simply cannot succeed
Given the wildly optimistic price for waste modelled by the mid-scenario, not to mention the 56,000 tonnes of waste left over with no costed solution, and with all the uncertainties in developing the...
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Does Barry Brook buy sham ‘awards’?
Jim Green, 19 Feb 16 Brook is the academic who was insisting that there was no risk of a serious accident at Fukushima even as nuclear meltdown was in full swing. With that sort of pedigree, it was no...
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Nuclear waste dump plan for Kimba – govt ignores relevant standards and codes
Jim Green 21 Feb 16 Some comments on the 18 Feb 2016 government ‘information session’ in Kimba regarding plans for a radioactive waste repository and above-ground ‘interim’ store for long-lived...
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