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Aukus laws will mean anywhere in Australia could be potential nuclear waste dump, critics say (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/world@quokk.au

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Australia has agreed to take sole responsibility for the management, security and storage of all nuclear waste from its fleet of proposed nuclear-powered submarines, including the spent fuel from the submarines’ reactors – high-level nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millennia once the submarines are decommissioned from the early 2050s.

The spent fuel is also a nonproliferation risk: Australia’s nuclear submarines will run on highly enriched uranium which can be reprocessed to make nuclear weapons.

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[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

I would think/hope that you guys could at least maintain the submarine independently. Your sailors went through the same training as the US ones do for operating. and as far as I understand it (which is better than most people) subs don't really get refueled. Carriers do but by the time a sub needed to refuel it wouldn't be worth while simply because the technology has advanced so far.

Hopefully more of the western world invests into its own navy because as it stands the US is such an overwhelming force that I understand why everyone is so hesitant to stand up against us.