For 40 years Australia has sought to centralise its nuclear waste, but the question of where to put it remains unanswered because of bitter division.Three sites have been shortlisted, two in Kimba and one in HawkerNuclear waste is currently stored at more than 100 sites across Australia, including at hospitals and at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney — 85 per cent of it comes from making nuclear medicine at the Sydney reactor.
"The matter is pressing. Our current store facilities will be full sometime in the next decade, maybe a bit sooner," department of industry, innovation and science spokesperson Bruce Wilson told 7.30.
You'd think the area where Uranium is extracted would be ideal opportunity. The stuff is only lightly contaminated and gets buried in deep concrete Any leakage there is in a radioactive area anyway.
I nominate Canberra, there's nothing important or useful happening there!
We need to have a storage facility to deal with the nuclear waste we produce. We need to watch the government because a couple of years ago they wanted to make money by importing nuke waste from overseas. Australia should not become the world’s nuke waste dump!
There must be a coal mine somewhere we can use
Surely Woomera Prohibited Area has to be a storage option.
Yeah, why not, we are too cowardly to use our own uranium (because we love high energy prices) so why NOT be the world's nuclear toilet; you know, from all those NOT too cowardly to use nuclear energy (from OUR uranium)! 🤮💩 smh
Australia don't have proper recycling facilities...
Hopefully not. Dump that baby-sitters nightmare on your own shores. Stop the boats.
We need nuclear power plants too.
Hopefully, we have plenty of nothing spaces.
Yes