Letter

In response to The British experience with nuclear-powered submarines: Lessons for Australia

Australia soon to become a nuclear waste dump

Finally, after all the chatter about the cost of AUKUS, delivery, manning, deployment etc somebody is talking about what has been my concern all along: the radiation effect and nuclear waste disposal.

I seem to recall reports of beached Russian nuclear submarines rotting away and polluting the Arctic seas and also reports of higher levels of nuclear-related deaths of submariners worldwide.

I am concerned that with the usual practice of secrecy on US and UK bases on Australian soil, we will quietly become an unregulated nuclear waste dump for the world, probably without the benifit of cheap storage of our own low-level waste, all for some obsolete technology that may never be delivered.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SĄ