AUKUS and the government’s nuclear waste storage nightmare

A vital aspect of the AUKUS security agreement has been indirectly unsettled by the Federal Court.  While the security pact between Australia, the United States and United Kingdom envisages Australia storing the high-level nuclear waste that would arise from the reactors of its as yet non-existent submarine fleet, the storage site remains a point of some conjecture.

Australia’s experience on the issue of storing radioactive waste, to date, only extends to the low-level and intermediate-level sort.  And it is most spotty.