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An anti-nuclear campaigner says the Federal Resources Minister is disregarding his own party's policy on nuclear waste facilities by holding secret talks with Northern Territory traditional owners. Natalie Wasley says Martin Ferguson's meeting with the Northern Land Council yesterday is a sign he is not going to uphold a pre-election promise to repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act.
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A mining company says a uranium deposit in the Lake Frome region in the east of South Australia may be Australia's next mine. Chairman of Curnamona Energy Limited, Bob Johnson, says the Oban deposit was found about 18 months ago and has "quite a bit" of easily-extractable uranium.
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Queensland Natural Resources Minister Craig Wallace has dismissed reports that tests are being done on the suitability of a uranium mine near Townsville. Mr Wallace says he has met with Canadian company Mega Uranium and has been assured they have no agenda for a uranium mine at Ben Lomond.
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THE Rudd Government is being urged to embrace nuclear power as a source of clean energy, amid warnings its emissions trading scheme could result in "desolate" industrial wastelands.
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RADIATION levels have forced the ABC to abandon its planned Brisbane home, just 18 months after it evacuated another site due to a cancer cluster. ABC managing director Mark Scott broke the news to shocked staff. But the decision is expected to prompt a legal battle with the site's current owners, Watpac, who say the national broadcaster cannot pull out of its $15.438 million contract for the Newstead property.
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The ABC has abandoned plans to build its new Queensland headquarters at a site in Brisbane after discovering the possibility of radioactive contamination. A year and a half ago, the national broadcaster had to abandon its Queensland headquarters at Toowong, because of a breast cancer cluster among staff.
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URANIUM miners are lifting pressure on the Queensland and Western Australian governments to drop a uranium mining ban - but both governments won't budge. The world's nuclear energy sector has snared a new lease of life and many countries are using or looking to use nuclear energy as a way to curb power-station emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases.
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NSW health authorities knew a Sydney home had unsafe levels of radiation but did not inform the residents - one of whom has since developed cancer, a NSW inquiry has been told.
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The son of a Sydney couple who died from cancers says the NSW Health Department tried to cover up the results of radioactivity tests on their neighbourhood.
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A man whose parents died while living near a former uranium smelter site in Sydney's north says he is angry the Government withheld information from the public. A New South Wales parliamentary committee is holding an inquiry into the site on Nelson Parade at Hunter's Hill. Members of the inquiry visited the site earlier this week and found unacceptable levels of radioactivity. Recent independent testing of soil samples found 350 times more radioactive than what is considered safe.
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THE leader of Australia's biggest blue-collar union has been left out on a limb over his push for the development of a nuclear power industry, as senior colleagues yesterday debunked his proposal as fanciful and unnecessary. Paul Howes, national secretary of the right-wing Australian Workers Union, was reported in The Australian yesterday as saying that nuclear power was the only option if the nation was to reduce carbon output and pursue renewable energy.
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Radiation safety experts say a centralised national dump is needed for Australia's growing stockpiles of radioactive waste, but some critics argue it is not the safest option.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the country can cope with climate change without resorting to nuclear power. The former premier of the eastern state of New South Wales, Bob Carr, and Australian Workers Union national secretary, Paul Howes, have both urged Mr Rudd's Labor Party to drop its opposition to nuclear power.
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A WATERFRONT home on the site of an old uranium smelter at Hunters Hill is so radioactive that it is "unfit for human habitation", independent tests have found. Peter and Michelle Vassiliou, who bought their property at 11 Nelson Parade from the NSW Health Department seven years ago, are too scared to go home after radioactive soil next to their bedroom was measured at 350 times safe levels.
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The managing director of mining company Uranium Equities says there is no doubt more uranium mines will pop up across the Northern Territory in the near future.
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WHEN Kevin Rudd unveiled his push for a world free of nuclear weapons, he was saying nothing unusual as leader of a party averse to almost all things nuclear. However, eyebrows were certainly raised when a few days earlier his energy minister Martin Ferguson declared the Government would break an election promise by building a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory.
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June 12, 2008: Plans to fast-track Australia's first nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory are a betrayal of a Labor election promise, activists say. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson told Fairfax newspapers on Monday he wants to speed up a decision for a dump. The Northern Territory is the most likely location for the dump, with four sites in the territory under consideration.
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Representatives from the mining company Cameco addressed the Alice Springs Town Council last night. The company wants to mine 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs and was given 10 minutes to present the pros and cons of uranium mining. A group of about 20 community members crammed into the Alice Springs Town Council chambers to hear the Cameco deputation.
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An industry-first Uranium Open Day will be held in Adelaide next week, aimed at informing the public about the mining, processing, use and disposal of the element.
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The Greens spokeswoman on energy says a letter from Muckaty Land Trust traditional owners shows that not all of them support a nuclear waste facility being built at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory.
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