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policy / ‘national interest’ aspect of reactor debate
Waste
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health / safety
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Medical
radioisotopes
Accelerator/cyclotron
production of technetium-99m
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) <www.ansto.gov.au>; see esp. <www.ansto.gov.au/info/cnrr000.html>
Some Australian government material: <www.ea.gov.au/assessments/epip/notifications/lucas/index.html>
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) reactor section: <www.arpansa.gov.au/rrrp.htm>
Pro-reactor and anti-reactor contributions to: Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) 2001 reactor forum: transcripts + panelists’ reports: <www.arpansa.gov.au/rrrp_for.htm>
Medical Association for the Prevention of War reactor section: <www.mapw.org.au/nuclear-reactors/rrr-index.html>
Sutherland Shire Environment Centre <ssec.org.au/nuclear.htm>
Greenpeace Australia
nuclear section <www.greenpeace.org.au/nuclear/index.html>
and
<www.greenpeace.org.au/nuclear/whatawaste/index.html>
Reaction coalition <www.reactnow.org>
Sutherland Shire Council (go to reactor link in ‘Hot Topics’ section) <www.mycommunity.com.au/SutherlandCouncil.nsf>
Australian Conservation Foundation nuclear section: <www.acfonline.org.au/asp/pages/intro.asp?idTopic=1> (Maybe best to type ‘reactor’ into search engine.)
Jim Green <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3>
Pro-reactor and anti-reactor contributions to: Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) 2001 reactor forum: transcripts + panelists’ reports: <www.arpansa.gov.au/rrrp_for.htm>
Sutherland Shire Library: <www.suthlib.nsw.gov.au/segway/Lucashts.htm>
Links to political parties: <www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/polparti.htm> <www.politicalresources.net/austral.htm>
Australian Parliament House (use search engine): <www.aph.gov.au>.
Consultants’ reports prepared for the Sutherland Shire Council from 1992-2001. Not easy to access. Some may be in Sutherland Shire Library. Perhaps try Senate Table Office and ask for hard copies of submissions to either of the Senate inquiries (1997-99, 2000-01), or specifically request Council submission including Council’s consultants’ reports. <[email protected]>, phone 02 6277 3010 or 02 6277 3009.
ABC Radio National, ‘Background Briefing’, 29/3/98: <www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/bb980329.htm>
ABC Radio National, Earthbeat, 23/2/02, <www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s489492.htm>
ABC (use search engine): <www.abc.net.au>
SBS ‘Insight’ program 10/8/00: <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/sbs.html>. Same transcript on the SBS website at: <203.15.102.140/insight/test/archive.php3> (scroll down to August 10, 2000, transcript in two parts).
2001 Senate Select
Committee for an Inquiry into the Contract for a New Reactor at Lucas Heights,
final report: <www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/lucasheights_ctte>.
Transcripts of public
hearings: <www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s-lh.htm>
1999 Senate Economics
References Committee report:
<www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/lucas/index.htm>.
For transcripts of public hearings, go to the following website then scroll
down to ‘Committee Transcripts/Hansard’: <www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/sen_ctte_info.htm>
For hard copies of Senate reports (and possibly also submissions), contact Senate Table Office: <[email protected]>, phone 02 6277 3010 or 02 6277 3009.
1998-99 Environmental Impact Statement: overview of draft and final EISs via: <www.ansto.gov.au/ansto/RRR/sub.html>. This material written by ANSTO and ANSTO’s consultant PPK. (Complete draft EIS and final EIS - not on internet, try Sutherland Shire Library or state or university libraries. Public submissions on draft EIS in Sutherland Shire Library.)
1993 Research Reactor Review report + appendices, try Australian Government Publishing Service. Submissions at some libraries, e.g. state libraries, Sutherland Shire Library. (This was the last independent public inquiry into the plan for a new reactor. Major information resource although dated.)
Australian Parliament
House (APH) Joint Committee on Public Works report, 1999: <www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/pwc/ansto/ncpindex.htm>.
Transcripts of hearings:
<www.aph.gov.au/hansard/joint/commttee/j-pub-wk.htm>.
Joint Committee on
Public Works Secretariat: ph 02 6277 4636, <[email protected]>.
FOREIGN POLICY / ‘NATIONAL INTEREST’ ASPECT OF REACTOR DEBATE
Jean McSorley, 1998, “National Interest and Nuclear Intrigues”: <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/mcsorley.html>
ABC Radio National, Background Briefing, 29/3/98, <www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/bb980329.htm>
ANSTO (<www.ansto.gov.au>)
Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office (a branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade). Try searching the ASNO (<www.asno.dfat.gov.au>) or DFAT (<www.dfat.gov.au>) websites or contacting them for information. Transcripts of some inquiry hearings are interesting.
Former diplomat Prof.
Richard Broinowski:
- SBS Insight program
<www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/sbs.html>
- paper to Medical
Association for the Prevention of War conference: <www.mapw.org.au/conferences/mapw2000/papers/broinowski.html>
Jim Green, “Shifting Nuclear Debates”, Social Alternatives, Vol.18(4), 1999, pp.31-37, <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/weapons.html>
Jim Green, “Research Reactors & Nuclear Weapons”: <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/rrweapons.html>
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency Nuclear Safety Committee report, 2002: <www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/rrrp/nsc150302.pdf>
Jean McSorley’s reports: <www.sea-us.org.au/no2reactor/lucasheights.html>
Greenpeace reports on dump, store, Pangea, reprocessing etc: <www.greenpeace.org.au/nuclear/whatawaste/pdf/gpap_report.html>
Friends of the Earth Australia <www.foe.org.au>
Various consultant’s reports for Sutherland Council. Not easy to access. Some may be in Sutherland Shire Library. Perhaps try Senate Table Office and ask for hard copies of submissions to either of the Senate inquiries mentioned above, or specify Council submission + Council’s consultants’ reports. <[email protected]>, phone 02 6277 3010 or 02 6277 3009.
Ex-ANSTO nuclear engineer
Tony Wood on various issues:
- ARPANSA forum: <www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/rrrp/forum2.pdf>
- see also papers
on Jim Green’s website on emergency planning (<www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/emergency.html>)
and insurance (<www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/insurance/html>).
Christopher Payne (Beaufort Services), “The physical protection of nuclear reactors at Lucas Heights”, on Sutherland Shire Council website (go to reactor link in ‘Hot Topics’ section): <www.mycommunity.com.au/SutherlandCouncil.nsf>
Jim Green, “Nuclear terrorism: Sydney's nuclear target”: <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/nuclearterroroz.html>
Mallinckrodt (radiopharmaceutical company) at the 2001 Senate Select Committee inquiry: <www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s4453.pdf>
SBS ‘Insight’ program 10/8/00 (general overview of debate): <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/sbs.html>
ACCELERATOR/CYCLOTRON PRODUCTION OF TECHNETIUM-99m
Gregory Morris and Robert J. Budnitz (Future Resources Associates, Inc.), June 2001, “Alternatives to a 20 MW Nuclear Reactor for Australia”, <www.geocities.com/jimgreen3/medicine5.html>. Also on Sutherland Shire Council website in PDF form (go to reactor link in ‘Hot Topics’ section) <www.mycommunity.com.au/SutherlandCouncil.nsf>.
IAEA Technical Document 1065, April 1999, "Production technologies for molybdenum-99 and technetium-99". (Papers on a range of accelerator methods for Tc-99m production, and useful introduction.)
Electron accelerator method: Ralph G. Bennett et al., A System of Tc-99m Production Based on Distributed Electron Accelerators and Thermal Separation, Nuclear Technology, Vol.126, April 1999.
Spallation system for Mo-99 production: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK-CEN <www.cen.be> (type Myrrha or Adonis into SCK-CEN’s search engine).
Lagunas-Solar, M.C.,
1999, "Accelerator production of Tc-99m with proton beams and enriched
Mo-100 targets", in IAEA Technical Document 1065, April 1999, "Production
technologies for molybdenum-99 and technetium-99".