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Nuclear Modernization

Nuclear Sub Deal Raises Questions About Australia’s Storage of Radioactive Waste

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

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Nuclear Sub Deal Raises Questions About Australia’s Storage of Radioactive Waste

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Australian leaders are concerned about the nuclear waste the country’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet, which the country will buy and then build under the AUKUS deal with the U.S. and U.K. AUKUS also poses complicated questions of compliance for Australia, which is treaty-bound to neither produce or possess nuclear weapons or materials that could be used to make them. Under AUKUS, detailed just last week by the participating governments, Australia will buy up to five U.S.-built Virginia-class nuclear powered, conventionally armed…

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