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USEFUL LINKS – NUCLEAR ISSUES (esp. AUSTRALIA)
INDEX
- A FEW SOURCES AND RESOURCES
- URANIUM MINING (inc. section on safeguards)
- NUCLEAR POWER (inc. sections on power/weapons and nuclear power / climate change)
- NUCLEAR WASTE
- NUCLEAR WEAPONS (inc. section on British bomb tests in Australia)
- PRO-NUCLEAR SPIN / PR
- MISCELLANEOUS
A FEW SOURCES & RESOURCES
- Video collection – Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear films (mostly historical)
- Map of Australian nuke sites with info, links, pics and videos: australianmap.net
- Daily nuclear news updates – Australian and international news & views:
https://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com
- 3CR weekly Radioactive Show available for download as podcast! www.3cr.org.au/radioactive & www.facebook.com/radioactiveshow
URANIUM MINING
Uranium mining – global
- World Information Service on Energy:
Uranium Mining (global): www.wise-uranium.org/indexu.html
Uranium Mining and Exploration Companies: www.wise-uranium.org/ucomp.html
Uranium mining – Australia
- Map of Australian uranium sites australianmap.net
- Friends of the Earth uranium webpages: www.nuclear.foe.org.au/uranium
- Australian Nuclear Free Alliance www.anfa.org.au
- Dr. Gavin Mudd – technical papers on ISL mining, impacts of Olympic Dam on Mound Springs, etc. See his Monash Uni webpage (last updated 2012) and his ResearchGate page.
- Sustainable Energy & Anti-Uranium Service archive (dated but still has useful info on uranium mining)
- World Information Service on Energy:
— Issues at Operating Uranium Mines and Mills – Australia: www.wise-uranium.org/umopaus.html
— Uranium Decommissioning Data – Australia
— Uranium Mine Ownership – Australia
— Uranium Decommissioning Projects – Australia
— New Uranium Mining Projects – Australia
Uranium mining – Western Australia
Australian Parliamentary inquiries etc.
- Senate References and Legislation Committee, October 2003, “Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverley and Honeymoon uranium mines“
- Senate Select Committee on Uranium Mining and Milling, 1997, Uranium Mining and Milling in Australia
- House of Representatives – Federal Standing Committee on Industry and Resources, ‘Australia’s uranium: Greenhouse friendly fuel for an energy hungry world‘, December 2006
Australia’s Uranium customer countries – China, Russia, India etc.
- Friends of the Earth: https://nuclear.foe.org.au/uranium-customers/
Depleted uranium (DU)
Uranium mining companies
- BHP Billiton (Olympic Dam)
- Heathgate Resources (Beverley and Beverley Four Mile)
- Energy Resources of Australia (Ranger)
Beverley and Honeymoon in-situ leach mines
- Senate References and Legislation Committee, October 2003, “Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverly and Honeymoon uranium mines“
Roxby Downs / Olympic Dam uranium mine
- Friends of the Earth Australia
- Cuttlefish Country (impacts of proposed desal plant on the Spencer Gulf and the Giant Cuttlefish)
- FoE Adelaide
Ranger, Jabiluka and other Top End uranium issues
- Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation www.mirarr.net
- Environment Centre of the Northern Territory www.ecnt.org.au
- Australian Conservation Foundation www.acf.org.au/nuclear_free
- Senate References and Legislation Committee, October 2003, “Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverly and Honeymoon uranium mines“
- Senate Select Committee on Uranium Mining and Milling, 1997, Uranium Mining and Milling in Australia
Uranium and nuclear weapons proliferation / safeguards
Australian literature (dealing with Australian and international issues)
- Friends of the Earth information on safeguards.
- Friends of the Earth information on connections between peaceful nuclear programs and weapons proliferation.
- Friends of the Earth information on Australia’s uranium customer countries.
- Medical Association for Prevention of War information on safeguards.
- Medical Association for the Prevention of War and Australian Conservation Foundation, 2006, ‘An Illusion of Protection: The Unavoidable Limitations of Safeguards’.
- Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office (federal government agency)
International literature:
- International Atomic Energy Agency – Safeguards & Verification
- Henry Sokolski (ed.), Feb 2008, ‘Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom‘ (also online here)
- Alan J. Kuperman, David Sokolow, and Edwin S. Lyman, March 18, 2014, ‘Can the IAEA Safeguard Fuel-Cycle Facilities?’, Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, click here or for direct download click here and see the project homepage.
- Former IAEA Safeguards Director Pierre Goldschmidt, 15 Nov 2011, ‘Looking beyond Iran and North Korea for Safeguarding the Foundations of Nuclear Nonproliferation’.
- Strategic Studies Institute Publications Office, United States Army War College, June 2014, ‘Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation‘.
- Henry Sokolski, 3 Nov 2010, ‘Building Support for the Agencys Safeguards Mission’, Nonproliferation Policy Education Centre, (or direct download)
- Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre and see in particular the section on the non-proliferation regime.
- Nuclear Power Joint Fact Finding Dialogue, June 2007
- Value-subtracting: Form vs. substance in Australian uranium safeguard policy, Richard Leaver, Austral Special Report 09-08S, 11 December 2009, Nautilus Institute
- Nuclear Safeguards: some Canadian questions about Australian policy, Richard Leaver, Austral Policy Forum 09-5A, 23 February 2009
NUCLEAR POWER
Nuclear power in Australia
- Friends of the Earth information
- Andrew Macintosh (The Australia Institute), 2007, “Siting Nuclear Power Plants in Australia ‒ Where would they go?”, Web Paper No. 40
- Impacts of Nuclear Power & Uranium Mining on Water Resources
Nuclear power in Australia – 2006 Switkowski report + critiques
Nuclear power – global
- World Information Service on Energy / Nuclear Monitor
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 and 2009 update, “The Future of Nuclear Power: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study“
- UK: www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/reports/index.php
- Greenpeace blog
Economics of nuclear power
- Ben McNeil, June 2007, ‘The Costs of Introducing Nuclear Power to Australia‘, Journal of Australian Political Economy #59,
- World Information Service on Energy, 2005, ‘Unfair Aid’: The subsidies keeping nuclear energy afloat
Nuclear power and climate change
- Climate Council (Australia), 2019, ‘Nuclear Power Stations are Not Appropriate for Australia – and Probably Never Will Be‘
- WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor, 25 June 2016, ‘Nuclear
power: No solution to climate change’ - Friends of the Earth Australia nuclear power online resources
- Pete Roche, April 2005, Is Nuclear Power a Solution to Climate Change?
- Brice Smith, 2006, Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- Charles D. Ferguson, 2007, Nuclear Energy: Balancing Benefits and Risks, US Council on Foreign Relations (or direct download)
- Statement of Dr. Thomas Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council, April 2008,
- John Busby, March 2008, “Why nuclear power is not a sustainable source of low carbon energy”
Links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons
General literature on the interconnections between civil and military nuclear programs:
- Friends of the Earth website
- Steven E. Miller & Scott D. Sagan, Nuclear power without nuclear proliferation?, Daedalus, 2009.
- Victor Gilinsky, A call to resist the nuclear revival, 27 January 2009, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Country case studies – nuclear power and nuclear weapons
- Friends of the Earth – Case Studies: Civil Nuclear Programs and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
- Nuclear Threat Initiative: www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/
- Institute for Science and International Security, “Nuclear Weapons Programs Worldwide: An Historical Overview”, http://isis-online.org/nuclear-weapons-programs
- Nuclear Weapon Archive, “Nuclear Weapon Nations and Arsenals”, nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq7.html
- GlobalSecurity.org www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/index.html
- Otfried Nassauer, December 2005, “Nuclear Energy and Proliferation”, Nuclear Issues Paper No. 4 or direct download.
NUCLEAR WASTE IN AUSTRALIA
- Friends of the Earth ‒ current plans for national dump, defeated proposals etc: https://nuclear.foe.org.au/waste/
- Friends of the Earth ‒ defeated plan for an international high-level nuclear waste dump in SA: https://nuclear.foe.org.au/waste-import/
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Various
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons www.icanw.org
- Oxford Research Group: www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
- Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (Australia), 2009, Inquiry into Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
US bases in Australia / nuclear alliance / missile defence
- Medical Association for the Prevention of War – PowerPoint presentation on various aspects of the nuclear alliance
- Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition
- Federation of Atomic Scientists
- Talisman sabre military exercises, war and the environment, Sue Wareham, Online Opinion, 2009
Australia’s secret nuclear weapons push – 1940s to 1970s
- Friends of the Earth – detailed information
- Jacques E.C. Hymans, 2000, ‘Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option‘, 1949-1999″, Nonproliferation Review, Vol.7, No.1, Spring, pp.1-23.
- Jim Walsh, 1997, ‘Surprise Down Under: The Secret History of Australia’s Nuclear Ambitions‘, The Nonproliferation Review, Fall, pp.1-20.
- Alice Cawte, “Atomic Australia: 1944-1990”, Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1992.
- Wayne Reynolds, “Australia’s bid for the atomic bomb”, Melbourne University Press, 2000. (For a review of Reynold’s book, click here.)
- ANSTO (Lucas Heights – Australia) and nuclear weapons proliferation
- Shifting Nuclear Debates: from ‘fortress Australia’ to ‘virtual capacity’
British nuclear bomb tests in Australia
- Friends of the Earth webpages. https://nuclear.foe.org.au/britbombs/
PRO-NUCLEAR PR, SPIN, FRONT GROUPS etc
- Friends of the Earth critique of pro-nuclear propaganda
- PR Watch: www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/75/9
MISCELLANEOUS
Map of Australian nuke sites australianmap.net
Uranium enrichment for Australia?
- ‘Enriching Australia’, Online Opinion article
- UMPNER / Switkowski report (see above)
- EnergyScience Coalition, Briefing paper
- Greenpeace 2004 report on the controversial Silex laser enrichment technique: ‘Secrets, Lies & Uranium Enrichment’
Lucas Heights nuclear research reactor
- Friends of the Earth webpages
- ANSTO Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation www.ansto.gov.au
- Jean McSorley’s analysis of the foreign policy agenda driving the new reactor plan
- Medical Association for the Prevention of War webpages
- Jim Green’s webpages
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