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- From: u926135@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Adrian Hassall Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Australian Research Reactor Propos
- Message-ID: <u926135.722219477@tasman>
- Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au
- Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
- References: <182900005@peg.pegasus.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:31:17 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- foesydney@peg.pegasus.oz.au writes:
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-
- >AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR LOBBY TRIES TO BULLDOZE REACTOR REVIEW
-
- >WANTED: ANYONE FAMILAR WITH CONVENTIONAL REVIEW PROCEDURES USED
- >IN COST-BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS FOR REACTOR PROPOSALS.
-
- >The Australian government is allowing only a month and half for
- >public submissions to a government review board in an attempt to
- >bulldoze through a new research reactor proposal. If succesful,
- >the reactor will likely be built on the site of an older research
- >reactor just 1.6 kilometres from residential housing.
-
- >Organisations and people working in the peace, nuclear and energy
- >fields, are requested to lobby the Australian government to
- >extend the closing date for submissions beyond 18 December 1992.
-
- >The Australian government is highly sensitive to international
- >pressure, so any evidence that demonstrates that this review
- >fails to meet acceptable international criteria could prove
- >extremely embarassing for the ministers and bureaucrats involved.
-
- >Please phone or fax the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating
- >with your concern: tel: 61-6-277-7700; fax: 61-6-273-4100
-
- >Individuals who wish to submit evidence to the review should
- >contact:
- >The Secretariat, Research Reactor Review, GPO Box 9839, Sydney,
- >NSW 2001, Australia.
-
- >Please inform Movement Against Uranium Mining ( fax: 61-2-281-
- >5216, tel: 61-2-212-4538), or Friends of the Earth on
- >peg:foesydney, of your action
-
- This can be taken as being a flame..
-
- I presume whoever posted this is strongly agin the replacement of HIFAR, and
- I'd like to know why. Are they only opposed to the location or are they a
- Luddite opposed to nuclear technology and the "nuclear lobby"? Because if
- they are they can get stuffed. (actually, this _is_ a flame)
-
- I support the idea of Australia having a nuclear technology industry, simply
- because I believe it that there are too many important medical, research, and
- industrial applications for it to be ignored. NOTE, I said _technology_, I
- don't support nuclear power generation as an option for Australia.
-
- I'd be happy to see this issue discussed, but lets do it in aus.general.
-
- ajax
-
- PS - I am a Sydneyite
-