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"The federal government has scrapped plans to build the nation’s first
radioactive waste storage facility on farmland near Kimba in South Australia.
Frankly, it was never going to work. The plan was doomed from the start.
That’s because the “decide and defend” model, where a government decides to put
radioactive waste somewhere and then attempts to defend it against the
community, hasn’t worked anywhere. It hasn’t worked in the United Kingdom. It
hasn’t worked in the United States. Those countries still don’t have any
process for long-term management of radioactive waste.
The only country to successfully manage the process is Finland, where the
community was engaged. Over a period of several years, the government worked
with its people to find a place where the community as a whole was happy to
have the radioactive waste, in return for compensation. They’re now building a
deep underground repository for permanently storing their radioactive waste.
But Australia’s national government has made the same mistake three times now:
a proposal in the Woomera area 20 years ago, Muckaty station in the Northern
Territory ten years ago and now Napandee near Kimba. Deciding on a site and
then trying to defend it against the community doesn’t work. The government
really needs to understand this. The only way to manage our radioactive waste
is to engage the community from the start. That means the whole community,
including the land’s traditional owners."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
