— ‘A uranium sales deal between the country that fuelled
Fukushima and the one that gave the world Chernobyl doesn’t sound like a good
idea.’
~ Dave Sweeney
EARLIER this week, without much fanfare, the Federal
Parliamentary Treaties Committee recommended the conditional
ratification of the nuclear co-operation agreement with Ukraine — a
plan initiated by Tony Abbott and advanced by Julie
Bishop.
At first glance, a uranium sales deal between the country that
fuelled Fukushima and the one that gave the world Chernobyl doesn’t sound like
a good idea.
And all the subsequent glances confirm that it’s not.
There are serious and unresolved nuclear security, safety and
governance concerns with the plan — putting more unstable nuclear material into
a deeply politically unstable part of the world, that is experiencing active
armed conflict, is force-feeding risk.
In a recent ABC
report, the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Dr Mykola Kulinich,
observed that the renewed violence in Ukraine could be a “precursor to
something much worse”.
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