Fed: Nuclear agency downplays waste dump fears

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-2004
Fed: Nuclear agency downplays waste dump fears

By Steve Larkin

ADELAIDE, Feb 26 AAP - Australia's nuclear agency today downplayed concerns about a
nuclear waste dump, saying standing next to low-level nuclear waste for an hour would
give someone less radiation than a return flight to the US.

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) acting executive director
Ron Cameron said it was important the public understood the issues regarding the generation,
storage and transportation of low-level radioactive waste.

Mr Cameron was speaking in Adelaide today at an Australian …