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  1. WebFeb 16, 2016 · Why would the world accept Australia's offer to store nuclear waste? Under the proposed plan, countries would ship their …

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  2. WebFeb 18, 2016 · The South Australian proposal to profit from the storage of nuclear waste would create a financial burden on future generations,

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      Should South Australia investigate a nuclear waste storage site?Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended the state investigate an international storage site for intermediate and high-level (spent fuel) nuclear waste.
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      Is nuclear electricity commercially viable in South Australia?OPINION: While acknowledging that nuclear electricity is not commercially viable in South Australia, the Royal Commission’s tentative findings give strong support to the extraordinary notion that the state should attempt to profit by storing high-level nuclear waste from countries that do have nuclear power.
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      Could Australia become the world's nuclear waste dump?Photo: Jim Green. Former prime minister Bob Hawke is urging Australia to become the world's nuclear waste dump. But he has little hope of succeeding. Hawke said Australia could end the disadvantage endured by its Indigenous population by opening up traditional lands as dumping sites for nuclear waste from around the world.
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      Where is nuclear waste stored?Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of high-level waste from nuclear power stations, both spent fuel rods and reprocessed waste, are in temporary storage around the world. They are “hot” in both temperature and radioactivity. Some are sitting in steel-lined concrete pools near reactors, while others are stored in so-called “dry casks”.
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    • WebNov 23, 2021 · While acknowledging that nuclear electricity is not commercially viable in South Australia, the Royal Commission’s tentative findings give strong support to the …

      • Any radioactive waste which requires it will be stabilised and solidified. Only waste in solid, stable form and devoid of corrosive or reactive materials would be accepted at the repository or store. Low-level and short-lived intermediate level waste will be disposed of in a shallow, engineered repository designed to ensure that radioactive materia...
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    • WebMay 11, 2016 · South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended the state investigate an international storage site for intermediate and high-level (spent …

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      • WebAug 8, 2014 · In 2005, Hawke promoted Australia as the world's nuclear waste dump, claiming that: "If we were to do that, we would have a source of income — forget about current account deficit. ... We can revolutionise …

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        WebFeb 16, 2016 · While acknowledging that nuclear electricity is not commercially viable in South Australia, the Royal Commissions tentative findings give strong support to the …

      • WebAnswer (1 of 4): Well Australia does have lots of unused uninhabited desert + very stable geology. And if this was spent fuel it contains a lot of u238 which can be used in …

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        WebWhy would the world accept Australia’s offer to store nuclear waste? 18 February 2016. latest blog. Germany’s Nuclear Nous versus the UK’s Nuclear Nutters. I’m celebrating …

      • WebJun 28, 2016 · Why would the world accept Australia’s offer to store nuclear waste? Mark Diesendorf , UNSW Sydney We don’t know how much it would cost to store

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