Nuclear partnership won't lead to waste dump: Downer
Posted Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:05pm AEST
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says accepting an invitation to join a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership will not lead to Australia being used as a nuclear waste dump site.
The United States is expected to ask Australia to join the group, which is set up to regulate the production of nuclear resources.
Mr Downer has told the 7.30 Report the Government will consider the idea closely but he says it will not result in Australia accepting nuclear waste.
"What we sign up, what we'd agree to, let's see what is actually put on the table," he said.
"Nobody can make us do anything and no matter what the scare-mongering of the Labor Party and their friends on the left may be, we've made it clear we won't be taking it back, and that's the beginning and that's the end of it."
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