Radioactive sites get overseas pressure

Kirsty Nancarrow
ABC News Online

Anti-nuclear campaigners from Central Australia are hoping to put international pressure on the Commonwealth to abandon plans for a nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory.

Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative says it is providing a briefing and a DVD to be screened and distributed to delegates at a conference in Sweden this weekend on the management of radioactive waste.

She says the Australian Government's failure to consult people who are likely to be affected by the four sites being considered is out of step with what other countries are doing.

"People can definitely lobby their own individual governments to get in contact with the Rudd Labor Government because how Australia is dealing with its radioactive waste management affects its involvement in the nuclear industry internationally," she said.

"If we're looking at this for a low and intermediate level dump we also have countries around the world pointing a finger at Australia to take a high-level waste dump, so you'd hope we could get it right with a low and intermediate level dump."


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