NSW Premier undecided on radioactive waste

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says he doesn't want radioactive waste from a former northern Sydney uranium smelter transported to Kemps Creek in the city's west.

Road workers ill after finding suspected radioactive waste

Road workers have become sick after finding suspected radioactive material during an upgrade to the Pacific Highway on the NSW mid north coast.

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State sends radioactive waste west

Heath Aston MORE than 5000 tonnes of radioactive waste will be dug up from one of Sydney's wealthiest harbourside suburbs, trucked across the city and dumped near Penrith.

Ten years after the all-clear, Maralinga is still toxic

Philip Dorling More than a decade after the Howard government hailed the clean-up of Maralinga as completed, the government is continuing to support remediation at the former British nuclear weapons test site.

BHP's $45b giant: the bigger, deeper Olympic Dam

David Wroe The massive planned expansion of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine would plague South Australia with radioactive waste and water overuse, say green groups, dismissing government assurances of strict...

First radioactive dump gets the green light

David Wroe Australia is set to get its first radioactive waste dump with the government agreeing to a Coalition demand for $10 million for the Northern Territory, which will host the dump.

Greens aim to amend nuclear waste bill

The Australian Greens will try to amend proposed laws to establish a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory.

Uranium plant waste unwelcome in western suburbs

Ben Cubby The state government will face tough local opposition if it intends to take contaminated waste from a radioactive site in Hunters Hill and bury it at Kemps Creek in the city's west.

Radioactive dump - with 10 days' notice, court told

Maris Beck A nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land should go ahead even if the land’s traditional owners have been incorrectly identified to government, the Commonwealth has told the Federal Court.

Ownership of nuclear waste site disputed

Lindsay Murdoch in Tennant Creek DOCUMENTS unearthed in the National Archives challenge the Gillard government's push to build a nuclear waste dump on disputed Aboriginal land near Tennant Creek, lawyers say.

Yellowcake shipment bogged on the side of the road

Lindsay Murdoch DARWIN THE bogging of a semi-trailer loaded with uranium oxide in Kakadu National Park has highlighted the danger of transporting the dangerous material long distances by road, conservationists say.

Call for nuclear plants to combat warming

Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Australia should adopt large-scale nuclear power stations to fight climate change, which would mean building six or seven reactors along the coast between Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, according...

China's bid for man-made sun

David Stanway The congenial Professor Duan Xuru doesn't look like a stereotypical mad scientist as he shows guests into a cluttered laboratory filled with canisters, vacuum pumps and patched-up pipes tied together...

Focus remains on power

Hamish McDonald PANIC about Japan's nuclear accident prompted such a run on salt in China that Beijing's official media had to talk down the rumour about its protective qualities.

US digs deep to secure the technology of the future

Suzanne Goldenberg MOUNTAIN PASS MINE, California: It's a deep pit in the Mojave Desert but it could hold the key to the US challenging China's technological domination of the 21st century.

Hot news: new home for waste

Mark Davis NATIONAL EDITOR TWENTY years after being found at an old CSIRO site in Fishermans Bend, in Melbourne, nearly 10,000 barrels of radioactive waste are moving to another ''temporary'' storage facility in outback South...

Rudd's hostility forces nuclear group to bale out

Phillip Coorey SOME of Australia's biggest nuclear power advocates have given up the cause, believing Australia has ''missed the boat'' on embracing the energy source.

Secretive arms tycoon behind new uranium mine

Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter The new uranium mine approved by the Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, will be owned by a subsidiary of one of the world's biggest arms dealers.

US support opens door for nuclear waste invention

Simon Mann IN WASHINGTON An Australian invention that allows nuclear waste to be stored within a synthetic rock-like substance could be on the verge of hitting paydirt after more than 30 years in the making.