Japan Ships Uranium-Contaminated Soil to U.S. for Disposal

This must be stopped.

:kick:

will this help our import/export ratio ?

The United States can become the garbage can of the world. We don't make anything anymore and our kids aren't too bright in math and science. It'll give them something to do. :sarcasm:

the Middle East.

US to be Aussie nuclear dump
By Amanda Hodge
January 21, 2005

THE US will become Australia's nuclear dumping ground in a remarkable 10-year agreement that takes the pressure off the Howard Government to find a domestic waste site.

The agreement to take spent fuel rods from the proposed new Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney was sealed at ministerial level late last year following talks between the US Department of Energy and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,12003697%255E421,00.html

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US to be Aussie nuclear dump
By Amanda Hodge
January 21, 2005 The Australian

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The question of where to store the nation's nuclear waste became a federal election issue last October after John Howard backed away from a plan to force a repository on South Australia.

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ANSTO spokesman Steve McIntosh yesterday hailed the US agreement as a coup for Australia.

"We have always viewed the spent fuel question as the biggest hurdle we had to jump and that seems to be out of the way," Mr McIntosh said.

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The US decision represents a special exemption for Australia, in part to reward ANSTO for helping develop a low-enriched uranium fuel capable of producing radio-pharmaceuticals but not open to potential abuse.

The US already accepts spent fuel containing uranium previously enriched in the US from 41 countries, including Australia, to reduce the risk that residual uranium will be used for nuclear weapons.

But the proposed Lucas Heights replacement research reactor will use low-enriched uranium fuel which does not come under this agreement and is not easily reprocessed.

-http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2005nn/0501nn/050121nn.txt

Can't find much else re this story on the net now -it's gone.

dumping ground for garbage, but at least it isn't nuclear waste!

This is pretty messed up.

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