Friday, 8 June, 2007

ABC News Online

The Deputy Prime Minister says there are no plans to store high-level radioactive material at an Australian nuclear waste facility.

The Commonwealth is examining three sites in the Northern Territory for a facility, with the Northern Land Council nominating Muckaty Station in the Barkly region as a fourth.

Territory Labor MP Warren Snowdon says a Liberal Party Federal Council's pro-nuclear waste dump resolution shows it has a secret agenda for the Territory to take high level nuclear material.

But Mark Vaile says that is not the Federal Government's plan.

"The decision the Government's taken and the intention is low level waste only and we'll go through that process of consultation and research and assessment as we move forward in this area," he said.