• DOI:10.1080/10361140220148151
Corpus ID: 154638890

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={I. Holland},
  journal={Australian Journal of Political Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={37},
  pages={283 - 301}
}

• I. Holland
• Published 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… Expand