Waste Not Want Not? Australia and the Politics of High-level Nuclear Waste

@article{Holland2002WasteNW,
  title={Waste Not Want Not? Australia and the Politics of High-level Nuclear Waste},
  author={Ian Holland},
  journal={Australian Journal of Political Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={37},
  pages={283 - 301}
}
  • I. Holland
  • Published 1 July 2002
  • Political Science
  • Australian Journal of Political Science
During 1999 and 2000, Australian governments rejected a proposal put forward by Pangea Resources to place an international high-level radioactive waste repository somewhere on the Australian continent. The decision was marked by tensions between competing political objectives, and was driven partly by an unusual alliance between pro-uranium mining governments and anti-nuclear non-government organisations (NGOs). The article begins by placing Australia's current nuclear policies in historical… 
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