LUCAS HEIGHTS TO MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE TRANSPORT ROUTE The Nuclear Freeways Campaign works to inform and support communities along potential transport routes between Australia’s main radioactive waste producer – the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor site in Sydney – and the NT. The federal government plans to impose a national radioactive waste dump at Muckaty, 120 kms north of Tennant Creek in the NT. There are many concerns with the proposal, including: * The unnecessary imposition of transport risks. * The failure to consult local councils and communities along potential transport routes. *
The failure of the Government to establish the need for a national
repository - in particular the failure to consider the option of leaving the reactor at Lucas Heights, where much of the waste is stored and where Australia's nuclear expertise is heavily concentrated. * Draconian legislation - the National Radioactive Waste Management Act - which overrides Aboriginal heritage and environmental protection laws and gives the federal government the power to override all state/territory laws in order to build the dump in the NT and to transport radioactive waste to the dump.
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TRANSPORT ROUTES Click here to download the government's report on potential transport routes (5MB PDF file) The report considers four options: 1. Trucking from Lucas Heights through western NSW, SA, Port Wakefield Rd, Stuart Hwy to NT 2. As above but also through Adelaide. 3. Trucking through northern NSW, QLD and NT. 4. Trucking from Lucas Heights to Cronulla (Sydney) then train to Adelaide, train to NT. Download the 2011 Nuclear Freeways information pamphlet (4-page PDF) CONTACTS Melbourne: Jim Green (Friends of the Earth) 0417 318368 jim.green@foe.org.au Darwin: Cat Beaton (Environment Centre NT) 0434 257359 uranium@ecnt.org Sydney: Yellowcake Road Collective, Friends of the Earth Sydney yellowcakeroad@gmail.com  |
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