Could Australia become a dumping ground for nuclear waste?

Australia could be taking on nuclear waste from the AUKUS submarine deal after new laws tabled in Parliament last year. The legislation says it would allow for the creation of facilities for "managing, storing or disposing of radioactive waste from an AUKUS submarine". It's led to the resurfacing of talk about nuclear waste; asking if we'd be taking on waste from the UK and US, and in terms of our own, where would it go?

In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is speaking
with Tony Irwin about what these laws mean.

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