Reply #20: We may know something about global warming before you do.

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It won't be paradise here unless you like dust with your dust. Most Oz cities have implemented indefinite water restrictions as result of a prolonged drought. Sydney may run out of water in two years if there is no improvement!

Lucas Heights is a small medical/ research reactor so the quantity of waste produced at the lesser end of the scale. Having said that, no Aussie wants it dumped in their backyard.

You guys are probably getting it due to some loosely defined friendship clause in the recently signed Aus-US free trade agreement. In return for our nuclear waste we will relax our Australian media content rules and take more of your cultural waste in the form of sitcoms, news and other info-tainment gems. We'll also increase US corporate control over our economy and society... amongst so many other things.
http://www.greens.org.au/hotissues/usfta

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