A Nuclear Free Australia
Protecting Australia from thousands of years of radioactive danger. Nuclear power creates deadly radioactive waste in every stage of the cycle, from mining to waste dump. No country on Earth has yet found a proven method to safely store radioactive waste for the thousands of years it lasts. Nuclear power would see waste generated, stored and transported across Australia, including many population centres. For the safety of our children, future generations and our precious environment, lets say NO to toxic nuclear waste and YES to clean and renewable energy.
- The problem
- The solution
- … and success
There are three big, unresolved problems of the nuclear fuel chain: nuclear waste, safety and nuclear weapons. After 50 years, the nuclear power industry still has no proven method to safely dispose of highly toxic radioactive waste anywhere in the world.
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The solutions to climate change are renewable energies, energy efficiency and protecting our forests and bushland. And the good news is that the technologies and the know-how to deliver these solutions already exist!
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The Wilderness Society’s nuclear free campaign was established to overturn John Howard’s nuclear plans for Australia and to promote the real solutions to climate change. With the Labor victory in the November 2008 federal election, the campaign is no longer needed in its current form. However, we continue our work for a nuclear-free Australia.
more »Nuclear Free Updates
- Mining suspended in victory for Arkaroola - February 17, 2008
- The end of the Jabiluka Uranium Mine - campaign update - March 02, 2004
In a major victory for the campaign to protect the internationally significant Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in South Australia from mining, SA Premier Mike Rann announced on Tuesday 12 February that the Government is suspending drilling operations at Mount Gee indefinitely.
The Wilderness Society has welcomed the announcement that the mine decline (the hole) at Jabiluka will be filled and rehabilitated. The 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore which was brought to the surface during construction of Jabiluka will be put back under ground. The uranium ore caused great water management difficulties and expense, since being on the surface, just as environment groups and scientists had warned.
Nuclear Free Media Releases
- Cover blown on nukes: Cabinet to open Australia’s door to nuclear waste and enrichment - July 15, 2008
- Secret Cabinet move to open Australia’s door to nuclear waste and enrichment - July 15, 2008
- Federal light globe plan means no need for nuclear power - February 19, 2007 A new Federal Government plan to replace inefficient incandescent light globes with energy saving bulbs would take away the need for a nuclear power plant in Australia.
Federal Government assurances that it will not continue Australia’s membership of the exclusive Global Nuclear Energy Partnership have been exposed as misleading by the release of a letter that confirms it is still considering it.
The Rudd Government has failed to distance itself from the nuclear legacy of the Howard Government and instead is moving to entrench Australia’s membership in an exclusive global nuclear club that opens the way for a nuclear industry and waste dump in Australia.
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