So more could be done to prevent the radioactivity contamination of the environment by liquid and aerial discharges. Well, that's really not good enough in my opinion, and particularly the discharge of radio active iodine should be limited to less than 0.03 millisieverts, which is not now being done. That's the first thing that's worth commenting on, that the spent fuel elements from the research reactor should be called high level waste.Īnother conclusion is that abatement technology should be and could be used to reduce the liquid and aerial discharges into the environment from Lucas Heights that the best available technology is not now being used to reduce the amount of radio activity put into the environment presumably because of the cost of it.įrank Barnaby: There is some, I mean, for example, the aerial discharges from ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) should be constrained to less than 0.1 millisieverts per year doses to the public. So presumably that's a political decision. Frank Barnaby: Well, firstly there was a strange thing, I mean the Australian Government and the other state government authorities in Australia seem unwilling to admit that there is high level waste in Australia, and therefore they don't call the fuel elements, when they're removed after a radiation from the high fire reactor at Lucas Heights, high level waste, whereas, obviously, under any reasonable definition it is.
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