Tuesday 16 May 2006
ABC News Online

Prime Minister John Howard says Australia has no plans to take back waste from uranium it exports.

Mr Howard says he has asked the United States to keep Australia fully informed about its plans to create a group of countries involved in processing uranium.

The plan will limit the number of countries processing nuclear fuel and includes a proposal for the supplier to take back the waste for disposal.

But Mr Howard says Australia would sell uranium which is not a nuclear fuel.

"I just think we should say ... this is a proposal that has been made in very general terms - it might happen, it might not happen and because we have a lot of uranium we want to be kept informed," he said.