A French court's rejection of Australian nuclear waste has cast doubts over government plans for a new reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney's Sutherland Shire. The French rejection of Australian nuclear waste follows a successful court action brought by Greenpeace France. This scandal reveals there are no workable plans for handling reactor nuclear waste. This is the second time the government's been caught out on waste issues. It is a pleasant city on the West Coast beneath the perfect cone of Mt Taranaki whose massive cone dominates the landscape.
Old cones rise out of the sea along the coast and the sand is black.
During my time in New Plymouth there was a continuing controversy over the pollution and fumes put forth by this company's furnace and eventually they were stopped from producing 24D and other poisonous farm sprays. Suddenly in January a retired director of the company decided to relieve his guilt and publish a scientific magazine on account of the manufacture of Agent Orange during the 1970s for use by the US in Vietnam. So as not to alarm the public, and possibly the Government, it was shipped to South America and then to America. They had their own wharf in the harbour. Not only did they produce this awful substance in New Plymouth but they buried waste over a large area of their land which they owned and afterwards sold it to the Government for public housing.