After Rio Tinto advised that it couldn't clean up the Ranger uranium mine site by 2026, the Albanese government has introduced a Bill that will allow the company to take as long as it needs.
Coalition MPs today issued a report recommending that Australia lift its moratorium on 'new and emerging' nuclear technologies, but Labor MPs said the focus should instead be on finalising a national energy policy.
The Budget has allocated $26.8 million to fund the return of radioactive waste sent overseas years ago for reprocessing, which will initially be stored at Lucas Heights in Sydney.
The Federal Government has dropped Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory as the proposed site for a radioactive waste facility, bringing to an end a Federal Court challenge by traditional owners opposed to the project.
Environment Minister Tony Burke today granted EPBC Act approval to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam expansion, on the same day that the South Australian Government gave it the go-ahead, with the Greens warning the project would create a 'carcinogenic mountain'.