Contexts in which the word atomic was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

• The Minister for National Development will recall a question being asked in this House recently regarding a paper which was to be presented to the Management Symposium on Ecology, Technology and Resources by some officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• House that some officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission - Messrs Davy, Giles and Charash - bad been asked to prepare and deliver this paper at the symposium. [More…]

• The design of the building w ll be such as to provide a measure of protection from atomic fall-0:,t in accordance with practices discussed with the Director of Civil Defence. [More…]

• When generating authorities decide to install nuclear power plants in their own systems they will almost certainly call tenders on a world wide basis as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has done in the case of the Jervis Bay project. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is a Commonwealth instrumentality and conforms to Government policy and practice. [More…]

• If so, will he make an early statement on precautions to be taken to prevent, or at least to assess, the costs and benefits of the Jervis Bay reactor plans as compared with alternative power projects including (a) the risks of a major plant accident (however unlikely) and radioactive ore transport leakage pollution, (b) radioactive waste disposal techniques and their long-term effectiveness, (c) environmental ecology, (d) the cost factor of safety provisions and (e) the independence of the Atomic Energy Authority from profitability motives or influence. [More…]

• Did the matters mentioned in the statement include the effectiveness of the Treaty, the security guarantees given by the nuclear weapons parties, the nature and content of the safeguard agreements with the International Atomic Energy and the right of non-nuclear weapons parties to develop the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. [More…]

• In particular, Australia is taking an active part in the discussion in the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency set up to devise a system of safeguards to meet the obligation under Article 3 of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. [More…]

• The Annual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission was tabled in Parliament on Thursday, 15th October 1970. i Atomic Energy (Question No. [More…]

• Did Messrs Davy, Miles and Charash of the Atomic Energy Commission, ever agree to present a paper to a symposium organised by the Ecological Society of Australia. [More…]

• Was an objection by a member of the Atomic Energy Commission the reason for the withdrawal of this paper. [More…]

• On what dates and for what purposes has the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission made visits to other countries. [More…]

• Was the visit to New Zealand of the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the purpose of discussing the supply of heavy water for the proposed nuclear reactor at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been engaged in research and development relating to the centrifuge method for enrichment, with satisfactory results. [More…]

• Did the Australian Broadcasting Commis-sion consult any authorities on the subject other than the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• What was the cost of the programme to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Was it coincidence that the programme was shown on the date of tabling of the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The school was exploratory in nature to determine how best to employ the Atomic Energy Commission’s resources to give secondary school students some insight into how mathematics and computers are used in scientific research. [More…]

• The Departments of Air, Army, Navy, Supply, Works, Civil Aviation, Customs and Excise, Treasury, Shipping and Transport, PostmasterGeneral’s Department, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Capital Development Commission, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Overseas Telecommunications Commission. [More…]

• What is the (a) description and (b) quantity of radioactive waste disposed of from Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to abolish the full time position of executive member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and to substitute a part time position of member. [More…]

• But around this measure there is - and I am speaking of the parent measure; the Atomic Energy Act 1953 - a strong flavour of the Oak Ridge mentality when it was presumed by one world power that it had a complete monopoly and would be able to retain a complete monopoly of atomic energy and its application to explosives. [More…]

• Will he outline the extent of the Government’s involvement in the enviromental programs being con ducted by(a) the World Health Organisation, (b) the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, (c) the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (d) the International Atomic Energy Agency, (e) the World Meteorological Organisation and (f) the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organisation. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966, I present the twenty-first annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1973 together with financial statements and the Auditor-General’s report on those statements. [More…]

• What are the proposals of the Minister for Minerals and Energy for the mining and marketing of uranium following the recent disallowance by the Senate of the Atomic Energy [More…]

• The Minister, in answer to a question in this House, said that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission would, in future, have the responsibility for refining uranium in Australia. [More…]

• (Cunninham-Minister for Minerals and Energy)- Pursuant to section 3 1 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973 I present for the information of honourable members the 22nd annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• If so, what is the effect on the underwriting arrangements with the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]

• Can the Minister tell the House what work has been done by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission on uranium enrichment by gas centrifugation? [More…]

• Can the Minister advise the House what stage has been reached in uranium enrichment technology by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]

• 1 ) Will he provide a list of all research projects being undertaken in Australia into atomic energy which are receiving financial support from the Government. [More…]

• What proportion does this represent of funds allocated by all sources in Australia to research projects into the applied use of atomic energy. [More…]

• and ( 10) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission consults with the various State electricity generating authorities on the relative merits of nuclear and fossil fuel power stations, and the prospects for nuclear power in each State. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973 I present the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]

• Some facts were pointed out, I believe correctly, by the former Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter, in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald of last Tuesday about uranium when he said: [More…]

• I preface my question to the Deputy Prime Minister by drawing his attention to the fact that the French Atomic Energy Commission, through one of its subsidiaries, has applied for an exploration licence to search for uranium in New South Wales. [More…]

• I ask: Did the French Atomic Energy Commission make this application with the approval of the Federal [More…]

• Would the Federal Government grant an export licence to the French Atomic Energy Commission to export uranium in any form if the application in New South Wales was successful and uranium was subsequently found? [More…]

• In particular, have Australian officials, such as the former Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, ever reported that they have been threatened by senior Japanese officials that if their country could not get uranium they would be entitled to come and get it? [More…]

• Did Sir Philip Baxter report these threats to the Minister responsible for the Atomic Energy Commission at that time. [More…]

• An examination of records has not revealed any such report to the Minister responsible for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953, I present the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]

• It relates to the Minister’s undertaking to provide the Deputy Leader of the Opposition with information about the contaminated debris buried at Maralinga in South Australia subsequent to the atomic tests there some 20 years ago. [More…]

• In addition certain specialised tests are readily available by arrangement with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Australian Radiation Laboratory. [More…]

• What percentage of the Atomic Energy Commission’s budget is allocated for research into (a) effects of waste products of nuclear reactors on organic matter and (b) new or improved disposal methods of nuclear waste products. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Atomic Energy Commission decided to build a new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• What plans does the Atomic Energy Commission propose for disposal of additional waste generated by the new plant. [More…]

• How many Australian inspectors have been appointed to the Atomic Energy Control Commission in Vienna? [More…]

• 1 nation in international atomic inspection and control? [More…]

• Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The requirement under our policy for International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards to be applied to any nuclear material supplied by Australia in the existing nuclear weapons countries, as well as in non-nuclear weapons states, is additional to these recommendations. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards; [More…]

• Preliminary assessments based on published information have been made by the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• -Can the Prime Minister inform the House whether the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed a view on the safe disposal of nuclear waste? [More…]

• Can he indicate whether, under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953, he has, by writing under his own hand, given the authority for carrying on, on behalf of the Commonwealth, all operations in relation to the Ranger venture? [More…]

• Furthermore, Australia’s Ambassador-at-Large on nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards, Mr Justice Fox, has established an office in London and is maintaining an active travel program in monitoring developments on non-proliferation issues, including developments in INFCE and, of course, the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953, I present the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1 977. [More…]

• The Federal Government is spending 15 times as much money on atomic energy research as it is on solar research. [More…]

• In this year’s Budget $22 m was allocated to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for research into nuclear energy, while a trifling $1.5m was provided for solar energy research. [More…]

• Under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act there is a requirement that before mining can commence under the Atomic Energy Act or under the Northern Territory mining ordinances an agreement has to be entered into with the Northern Land Council. [More…]

• By reason of the decisions of the Government, mining of the Ranger deposit will be under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• Yes, as a consequence of which the Commonwealth is represented on a Working Party that has been established by the Health Commission of New South Wales and, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, is providing technical advice to the Commission. [More…]

• Before the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 is resumed, I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the ministerial statement relating to uranium development. [More…]

• construct another reactor at the Australian Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights; if so, when will the Parliament be provided with full details of the plans including an estimate of the costs involved. [More…]

• With reference to the fenced area approximately 1 kilometre north-west of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, when were the signs proclaiming jurisdiction of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment and prohibiting public access erected. [More…]

• 1 ) When is it expected that a formal report will be provided by the medical team from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Sydney University which undertook an analysis of medical surveys which have been in progress for several years into the health of workers at Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment. [More…]

• Has the Minister recently had discussions with Sir John Hill, the chairman of the British Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]

• Service records do not indicate the number of Australian Prisoners of war who were in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic bomb explosion in August 1 94S nor do these records show how many of these prisoners of war are still living or have died as a result of the explosion. [More…]

• Of the original 27 prisoners of war who were in Nagasaki at the time of the atomic explosion two died from cancer of the stomach in 1 965 and 1 970 respectively, one died from cancer of the bladder in 1965, one died from an aortic aneurysm in 1969 and one was drowned in 1974. [More…]

• It is not known if the effects of the atomic explosion contributed to these deaths as the survey was not commenced until 1974. [More…]

• 1 ) How many Australians were prisoners of war of the Japanese in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped in 194S. [More…]

• ) How many of those prisoners of war who were in Nagasaki in August 1945 (a) are still living and (b) have died of leukaemia or other causes which may have been inflicted by the Nagasaki atomic explosion. [More…]

• 1 ) Are there any environmental reports compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which are specifically not made public. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission published the Environmental Survey Reports for the years 1 975 to 1 977; if not, will he (a) indicate why the reports have not been published and (b) make copies of the unpublished reports available to the Parliament. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the extent of Australia ‘s contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency, by year and cumulatively, since the Agency’s inception. [More…]

• What training has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission provided to and received from the IAEA and from bilateral programs with the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries. [More…]

• 1 ) How much plutonium is under the control of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) How many staff of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment in the categories of (a) executive and senior staff, (b) research staff, (c) experimental staff, (d) other professional staff, (e) technical staff and (f) trade staff were engaged in each of the following research programs during 1976-77: (i) energy resources, (ii) fission reactor performance, operation and safety, (iii) controlled thermonuclear fusion systems, (iv) alternative energy systems, (v) uranium industry, (vi) enrichment by the centrifuge process and (viii) enrichment by novel methods. [More…]

• 1 ) How many staff of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have been engaged in research on (a) uranium enrichment by the centrifuge process, (b) laser enrichment of uranium and (c) other uranium enrichment processes during each year from 1965-66. [More…]

• and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1 970- 1 977: 1(a)- [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in West Germany I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]

• and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in the United States of America I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]

• I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-1977: 1(a)- [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in France I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-1977: 1(a)- [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) In relation to nuclear power stations in Japan I am advised on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that over the period 1970-77: 1(a)- [More…]

• For example, scrap metal from the workshops of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Snowy Mountians Hydro-electric Authority and the Pipeline Authority is recovered and sold to local scrap metal dealers. [More…]

• Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, River Murray Commission, Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to a report in the Australian of 4 May 1978 that the Secretary of his Department said, in reference to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, that it is not just a question of taking the word Atomic’ out, but of whether the Commission should be involved in other areas of research and that the answer should be in the affirmative. [More…]

• Has the Commission ever sought ministerial approval to undertake research in matters not associated with atomic energy or uranium. [More…]

• Has ministerial approval ever been granted to the Commission to undertake research in matters not associated with uranium or atomic energy, either on his initiative or at the request of the Commission. [More…]

• Research by Australian Atomic Energy Commission (Question No. [More…]

• -I refer the Prime Minister to the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill on 3 May this year when the Opposition urged the establishment of a Nuclear Safeguards, Safety and Security Commission to set standards for aspects of safeguards, to make rules for physical security, to set physical safety standards, to issue and withdraw licences for construction and to carry out investigations and inquiries. [More…]

• In the light of recent events and the evident failure of Ministers, departments and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to establish and present the truth in respect of nuclear activities, I ask the Prime Minister whether he now acknowledges the urgent necessity for an independent authority to regulate nuclear activities. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the composition of airborne waste from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development admitted that there were low yield atomic explosions through to 1 963. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for National Development give an assurance that in no circumstance will radioactive waste which at present is stored at Maralinga be shifted to Sydney for storage at the atomic research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]

• In presenting this report I draw attention to the comments on page 5 about the Government’s confirmation of the arrangement that the Office is functionally independent of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) and pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 I present the report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has assessed the effects of postulated major accidents at the Research Establishment at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission assessed the possible consequences of accidental releases of radioactive gases or materials into the atmosphere or water at the Lucas Heights research establishment, NSW. [More…]

• What is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s estimate of the annual radiation dose which a member of the local population receives from (a) the general environment and (b) from the atmosphere only, as a result of the discharge of radio-active material from the Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• I am advised on the basis of information available to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that: [More…]

• Will he give an unqualified assurance that radioactive waste from Maralinga will not be temporarily or permanently stored at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• Operation Brum bie, Final Report, October 1967, and Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (AWRE) Report No. [More…]

• I am advised that on the basis of the definition of ‘atomic energy’ as contained in the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 the functions of the Commission under section 17 (1) (g) extend to research and investigation in connection with matters associated with solar energy. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ever (a) sought and (b) been’ granted ministerial approval to undertake research into (i) solar conversion using photochemical cells, (ii) total energy requirements of a residence from solar energy and (iii) the magnetohydrodynamic turbine. [More…]

• What were the radiation levels (a) at the perimeter fence and (b) for the small length of the perimeter fence at the south-west corner of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ‘s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW, on a monthly basis since January 1975. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s decision to proceed with the proposed Ranger uranium mining venture under the Atomic Energy Act which inter alia provides for the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 to all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission, will the Government give an undertaking that the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act will not be applied to the proposed new Ranger mine. [More…]

• I am advised by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that- [More…]

• As was made clear during the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 in the Senate on 29 May 1978, the Government’s policy is that penal provisions enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to the Ranger Project. [More…]

• Before anybody else he recognised and measured very precisely the terrible power that could be unleashed on the world by the use of atomic energy. [More…]

• Although he was one of the people who suggested to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that it was essential that the Allies develop an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany, he always campaigned against the spread of nuclear weapons. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the first report on the survey of health of employees in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment undertaken by Professor Ferguson is not a good index on the occurrence of cancer because it is a prevalence study and by its nature the disease on recognition usually leads to action such as the temporary or permanent removal of the subject from the workforce. [More…]

• I wish to express my concern about the siting of the HIFAR atomic reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• The present Minister for National Development said today in this Parliament that there should be no public concern about the safety of the Atomic Energy Commission’s research reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney. [More…]

• As I have mentioned previously, within a 5-mile radius of this atomic reactor in the electorate of Banks 30,000 people could be directly affected if we had a catastrophe similar to that which occurred in the United States. [More…]

• the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been authorised to commence a design cost study for a new reactor. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to come into this House tonight and to give honourable members an assurance that when the Government sites the new atomic reactor- it has announced that there will be a new one- it will site it in some area in the wastelands of Australia and not within the densely populated regions of the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]

• 1 ) Has he or his advisers studied the US Atomic Energy Commission’s report entitled ‘Reactor Safety Study’ known as the Rasmussen report and issued in 1 97S. [More…]

• 1 ) Officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are involved in determining that wastes discharged into the Woronora River from the Research Establishment at Lucas Heights comply with the requirements of the N.S.W. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission located at Lucas Heights in the electoral division of Hughes will employ twenty (20) of the additional 230 apprentices. [More…]

• 1 ) Are any members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission responsible for or involved in determining that potentially radioactive wastes discharged into the Woronora River comply with the requirements of the Radioactive Substances Act 1957. [More…]

• Last night, when the Opposition co-operated with the establishment of the legislation committee, this Parliament was used to try to strangle debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]

• Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s assessment of the possible consequences of a major accident at the Lucas Heights Research Establishment, NSW, based on the findings or the methodology of this study; if so, what action is proposed to review safety at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• 1 ) Are members of the public able to obtain access to the library facilities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• When radioactive materials are transported to and from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW, (a) which State or local government authority is notified in advance, (b) what methods of transportation are used and (c) which Federal, State or local government authority supervises transportation of the radioactive material to ensure that there are no breaches of the 1973 regulations for the safe transport of radioactive material issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. [More…]

• I ) and (2 ) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission library system was designed, equipped and staffed to service specialist scientific engineering and other professional personnel in their fields of research and is fully utilised for this purpose. [More…]

• What are the reasons for not publishing in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission environmental survey reports that readings referred to in part ( 1 ). [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) On the basis of official reports and recent inspections, I can say that following the repatriation to the United Kingdom of approximately half a kilogram of plutonium formerly buried at Maralinga there are no burials of nuclear waste at former atomic weapons test sites in Australia which constitute a potential terrorist threat. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has given consideration to concerns which have been expressed in relation to the Atomic Energy Act, including concerns at the possible application of penal provisions to commercial undertakings such as Ranger. [More…]

• The Government’s policy in this matter was made clear during the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 in the Senate on 29 May 1978 and was repeated in my answer to Question No. [More…]

• Consistent with this policy, the Government has decided to amend section 60 of the Act to provide for prior notification of those ‘works’ of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to which the provisions of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 will apply, and to repeal sections 54 and 58 in Pan IV of the Act. [More…]

• 1 ) Can he give positive assurances that no further atomic waste deposits exist in atomic test areas in this country other than the deposit found at Maralinga in South Australia. [More…]

• Which of the penal provisions contained in the Atomic Energy Act and the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act will not apply to the proposed new Ranger Mine. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission or any other Federal agency established a trans-uranium register of persons who have come into contact with uranium or its radio-active products so that the long term effect on health can be monitored: if not, why not [More…]

• The following table sets out the designations and numbers employed for all Australian Atomic Energy Commission employees at Lucas Heights as at 3 1 July 1979: [More…]

• What are the duties, staff classification and salary ranges of all employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights, New South Wales. [More…]

• -Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 I present the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission 1979. [More…]

• During the life of the Parliament the Australian Atomic Energy Commission will begin construction of a nuclear power station in Commonwealth Territory at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• References dealing with dam construction, eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis in cattle; forestry development, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s proposed nuclear power station, research into wild life and marine science are all relevant to the degradation of our environment. [More…]

• Behind it all is the grey eminence or the evil genius, if you like, of this Government and the Prime Minister, namely, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• I should hope that we would use our defence funds and endeavour to secure for this country some measure of atomic or hydrogen defence . [More…]

• If we want to know what this Government is really up to we can have a look at the specifications in the letter of invitation which was circulated last December by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to ten countries that are capable of producing nuclear reactors. [More…]

• Natural uranium processed in an atomic reactor is the short cut to plutonium, which in its turn is the base of atomic weapons. [More…]

• It is noteworthy that less than 18 months ago a certain gentleman named Cunningham, who is the V ice-Chairman of the British Atomic Energy Commission, came to this country and warned it that there had been a breakthrough by the combined experiments of Britain, West Germany and Holland in the use of the gas centrifuge, which was a much cheaper method of enriching uranium. [More…]

• Any country that is bent upon securing plutonium for atomic weapons by this purpose has to interrupt the atomic cycle of reaction, because when one goes beyond uranium 239 one comes to other trans-uranic elements, namely, neptunium and americium. [More…]

• We believe that the people in the Pacific area are entitled to lead their lives free from the fear of atomic fallout or some sort of harm to their way of living. [More…]

• A submarine can stand out to sea a few miles and send an atomic, nuclear or hydrogen rocket into such cities. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for National Development been drawn to the fact that in the last week 2 papers to be delivered to symposiums by employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have been cancelled? [More…]

• What are the reasons for the apparent attempt by the Atomic Energy Commission to suppress public debate on these issues? [More…]

• First of all1, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission did not give any instructions in relation to a paper that was to be presented to this symposium, as has been mentioned by the honourable member. [More…]

• I think most honourable members who did physics or chemistry, or whatever the subject was called in those very neutral days of 20 years ago before atomic physics loomed on the horizon, used the formula 5/9ths minus 32 or 5/9ths plus 32 to convert from centigrade to fahrenheit. [More…]

• So I can assure the honourable member that the standards which are adopted here not only Will conform to our rigid standards, to which we subscribe through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, but will be in accordance with the world standards which are laid down by the world agency, the chair-, man of which at the moment is the chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Federal Republic of Germany has not applied for membership of the United Nations, lt is, however, a member of all thirteen United Nations Specialised Agencies and of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, and of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). [More…]

• Minister for External Affairs: Has his attention been drawn to the claims in Adelaide by a Dr Robertson that there seems to be a correlation between earthquakes and atomic explosions? [More…]

• I have stated in this House on previous occasions that the standards which are laid down by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission on behalf of the Government are as high as those in any other country, and indeed certain standards are higher. [More…]

• We in Australia should be proud that at the moment the chairman of the world agency is an Australian - the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• however, it will be necessary to revise this analysis when tenders for the Nuclear Steam Supply System have been received and assessed by the Atomic Energy Commission and its consultants. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has always been active in seeking to promote a better public understanding of atomic energy. [More…]

• The reports to which the honourable member has referred are confidential studies by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales prepared for management. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Interior are maintaining close liaison to ensure that any disturbance of the area occasioned by the construction of the power station will be as small as possible., thus minimising any effect on the aesthetics and general character of the area. [More…]

• We were spoken to by an Indian who described to us in a lay way the pulsing quasars that they have found as timed against the atomic clock. [More…]

• The building of this world class telescope and the prospect of the new atomic reactor at Jervis Bay should have a profound and favourable effect on the brain drain amongst these young scientists and this will help Australia to maintain its position in astronomical research in the world. [More…]

• [ would be happy to discuss these matters with him at any time or to arrange for him to discuss them with officers of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• A number of sites were investigated and ultimately the decision was made to select the Jervis Bay site which was considered not only by the Atomic Energy Commission but by the Elec tricity Commission of New South Wales to be the best available. [More…]

• The other principal benefit to be gained is that it will provide a training ground for personnel not only from the Atomic Energy Commission but also from the Electricity Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• An amount of $2.4 m is provided for expenditure by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in connection with the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• Estimates given by Sir Phillip Baxter, Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, anticipate the expenditure of at least $5, 000m on atomic power stations by the turn of the century. [More…]

• The Government and the Atomic Energy Commission may have this information, but this 1 am inclined to doubt. [More…]

• The first question I pose is this: Why has this project become so urgent and what has caused this sudden burst of activity on the part of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]

• Mr Ross also queries the size of the reactor chosen by the Government and quotes a table showing the details of the first power reactor installed by member countries of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• His source is the International Atomic Energy Agency ‘Bulletin’ of 1 1th January 1969. [More…]

• Table 4 gives details of the first power reactor constructed by member countries of the International Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• lt will be appreciated mat I am not in a position to confirm or deny the figures provided by Mr Ross, but the Australian Atomic Energy Commission should be, and I think it is up to the Minister to provide the House with similar estimates prepared by the Commission. [More…]

• The only body in Australia which seems to know those answers - and I again query whether it knows them all - is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Government, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, has kept a close watch on the world development of nuclear power. [More…]

• The break into such a new technology is not easy and the Government felt that, since Australian expertise in nuclear energy was largely confined to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, there might be a case for the first step to be taken by the [More…]

• The Electricity Commission has worked in close association with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in all phases of the planning for Jervis Bay. [More…]

• The ‘Invitation to Tender’ documents were prepared by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and its consultants in co-operation with the Electricity Commission. [More…]

• Tenderers have been required to provide information to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to assess the safety of their submitted designs. [More…]

• This information must suffice to show that the design, manufacture, erection and operation of the plant will meet the standards required by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• In the meantime, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is expanding its programme of public information. [More…]

• This meeting was sponsored by the Shoalhaven Combined Progress Associations and was attended by the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and senior members of the Commission staff. [More…]

• We anticipate that the power station will attract a large number of visitors and the Atomic Energy Commission is making special arrangements so that this unique development in Australia can be seen by as many citizens of Australia as possible, under conditions which will be safe, informative and comfortable. [More…]

• that Canadian nuclear power experts are claiming that the only tender for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay which can be costed accurately is the tender submitted by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd for a CANDU type reactor using natural uranium? [More…]

• The Government proposes to cap it all by secrecy and backdoor methods, because for its 1970 election gimmick it will be announcing the acceptance of a tender to construct an atomic reactor at Jervis Bay of an outmoded type and in an unsuitable location. [More…]

• I wonder how long this Parliament can tolerate a small section of aging gentlemen like the gentlemen of the Country Party dominating the Parliament in this age of affluence and prosperity and in this atomic age. [More…]

• What is the reason for the delay in answering them when it is reasonable to assume that all the information sought would and should have been available to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Government prior to the decision to build a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the European Nuclear Energy Agency and many other governmental and non-governmental bodies periodically publish figures on estimated unit costs for the production of electricity for projected nuclear power stations? [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission prepared similar figures? [More…]

• Sir Phillip Baxter, the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, is reported to have already discussed the Nabarlek find with representatives of the Japanese Science Technology Agency who no doubt see the Nabarlek strike as a reliable source for the massive uranium needs of Japan’s nuclear power programme. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966 confers on Sir Phillip Baxter, as Chairman of the AAEC, power to negotiate for the exploration, treatment and sale of uranium. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission under the powers conferred on it by the Atomic Energy Act could prospect for uranium itself if the Government would grant it the necessary finance. [More…]

• Australian resources remain in the control of Australians; fourthly, the Atomic Energy Commission, in conjunction with the Bureau of Mineral Resources, to actively engage itself in the exploration and mining of uranium; and, fifthly, the Government to investigate and report to Parliament on the activities of the Rothchild’s backed Rio Tinto Zinc Group and its subsidiaries and its attempts to gain control of our uranium resources. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966 [More…]

• It could be that the Department of External Affairs wanted to sign the Treaty - I believe it did - but its spokesman was not forceful enough and there was great pressure from the Atomic Energy Commission for Australia not to sign the Treaty. [More…]

• I have no doubt that those forces within the Cabinet that have the Sir Philip Baxter mentality applied pressure because of their fear that they might be sold down the drain by signing the Treaty and would not get the development that they wanted; that they would not be able to create first of all their own atomic weapon and later their own nuclear weapon. [More…]

• There will be joint participation by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales in matters relating to the design and construction of the station. [More…]

• There will be a Co-ordinating Board appointed by the Minister for National Development, consisting of a chairman nominated by the Commonwealth after consultation with the State, two representatives of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and two representatives of the Electricity Commission of New South Wales nominated by the Minister for Local Government and Highways in New South Wales. [More…]

• that the management of the station complies with the standards and procedures approved by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in relation to nuclear health and safety, the release of radioactivity into the environment, and such other matters as related to the safe operation of nuclear facilities at the station; [More…]

• that fuel management programmes, formulated jointly by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales in the interests of the operational requirements of the New South Wales system and of fuel economy, conform with the standards, procedures and controls referred to in (a) and (b) above. [More…]

• There will be a Chief Executive Officer who will be an officer of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission with executive duties in respect of all matters which are the responsibility of the Board. [More…]

• The Electricity Commission of New South Wales will be responsible for operation and maintenance of the station as an integral part of the New South Wales power system, subject however to the standards, procedures and controls laid down by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the [More…]

• The Station Superintendent and staff will be provided by the Electricity Commission but all appointments of personnel normally subject to nuclear licensing requirements will be subject to the approval of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in respect of their qualifications and competence. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present an interim report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30th June 1970. [More…]

• As far as cities are concerned, if there was a war 1 atomic bomb could blow Sydney or Melbourne to pieces. [More…]

• Nearly all research scientists in this area are in the Department of Supply, the Atomic Engergy Commission and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• Despite the expenditure of over $150m on the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Australia is still not properly prepared for the advent of nuclear technology, and is lagging behind other developed countries in its adoption. [More…]

• Development of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission so that it may contribute more effectively to Australia’s needs. [More…]

• A document which I received from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission some months ago states: . [More…]

• But Sir Phillip Baxter, Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, could say on television that a number of sites were examined. [More…]

• The reports to which the honourable member has referred are confidential studies by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales prepared for management. [More…]

• I am certain that this is what the Minister and the Atomic Energy Commission are doing not only to this House and to me but to scientists and the public generally. [More…]

• I have every reason to believe that after this paper was prepared - I have a copy of it in my hand together with the statement that the Minister released on 12th June for the information of the Press - it was censored and altered by a very senior official of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• All that information should have been available to the Atomic Energy Commission, the Minister and the Government before the decision was announced. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission has indicated that by the turn of the century in the vicinity of $5,00On will have been spent on nuclear power stations throughout Australia. [More…]

• After all, as I recollect, the Calder Hall atomic power station in Cumberland in the United Kingdom was developed in 1956 and investigations went on for a long time before that. [More…]

• This is confirmed by reference to a paper submitted to the Institute of Engineers by W. H. Roberts, Secretary for Fuel and Power in Victoria, and a former associate director of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• On the question of decentralisation, let me merely ask this: Did the Australian Atomic Energy Commission or this Government investigate the concept of ‘where in this country do we need new centres of industry and population?’ [More…]

• Why is it that the States of ‘ Minnesota, Vermont, Michigan and Maryland as a protection for their people have, in the light of these findings, taken unilateral action to fix dosage levels lower than that fixed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]

• The United States Atomic Energy Commission will be forced to substantiate the credibility of the tolerance level and, more importantly, the people will have the opportunity to judge for themselves. [More…]

• I am not against Australia’s entering the field of nuclear power, but I strongly condemn the combined Government and AAEC ludicrous facade of secrecy by which the Government gags its own expertise by way of the iniquitous provisions of the Crimes Act, the Atomic Energy Act and the Commonwealth Public Service Act. [More…]

• Secondly, would not this possible enrichment installation have a bearing on the tender selected for the Jervis Bay station7 Thirdly is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission carrying out any investigations on enrichment technology? [More…]

• I do not think the Atomic Energy Commission has considered fully those aspects. [More…]

• The maintenance of technical standards is a concern of all members and staff of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Enrichment of uranium in the United States of America is performed in facilities owned by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and operated under contract to the Commission. [More…]

• Since taking up the position of full-time Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter has made the following overseas visits: 15th September- 29th October 1969 [More…]

• Austria, United Kingdom, United States of America and Canada: The visit to Austria was to attend 2 meetings of the Board of Governors and the Annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at which Sir Philip was elected Chairman of the Board for the forthcoming year. [More…]

• Visits to the other countries were for discussions with atomic energy authorities on matters of interest to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• During return to Australia, brief technical discussions were held with the South African Atomic Energy Board. [More…]

• Japan: As a guest of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission for discussions on matters of mutual interest to that Commission and to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966 I present the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30th June 1970 together with financial statements and the Auditor-General’s report of those statements. [More…]

• Of course, there will be loud hosannas on the part of the Government that we are entering an atomic age. [More…]

• This advice by a man who would be supreme in his knowledge of atomic fission would be well followed. [More…]

• He was associated with Rutherford from the earliest days of atomic technology. [More…]

• They are going to show the world that they can do without the advanced atomic technology which is available to any country which is participating fully, by ratification, in the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. [More…]

• I need not remind the people of Australia that the former Senator Gorton and the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are both repeatedly on record in their advocacy of these damnable weapons. [More…]

• The Government is back 20 years in its thinking and its attitude is enshrined in the archaic Atomic Energy Act which goes back to the early 1950s - an entirely different era when the United States and Russia were hugging to themselves the secrets of the construction of atomic weapons and also the secrets of nuclear power generation. [More…]

• Another feature that is most obnoxious to the Opposition is that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is the sole buyer, builder, borrower and operator, and the Parliament is being denied access to vital information and the right to ascertain the facts associated with the final choice of a reactor. [More…]

• There is an obsessive secrecy on the part of the Government, and there is downright arrogance on the part of the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and of the Commission as a whole. [More…]

• An atomic reactor at Murray’s Beach, Jervis Bay, is a sitting nuclear bomb ready to be exploded by enemy craft, not to mention the mishaps that can occur even in peaceful power generation. [More…]

• An example here is the paper by K. F. Adler, Commissioner and Director of Research Establishment of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and W. J. Wright of the Nuclear Development Division of the United States AEC, which was presented to the Annual Conference of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy earlier this year. [More…]

• In the United States for instance the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has overview of all aspects of nuclear power. [More…]

• It goes through a number of stages including: (1) A public evaluation study by the United States AEC known as the Safety Report; (2) a report from the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards - again in public; (3) public hearings before the grant of a construction permit: and (4) the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of the Congress is available for an overall review. [More…]

• The German Bundestag has an Atomic Energy Committee. [More…]

• The Netherlands Parliament has a Committee for Atomic Energy. [More…]

• Typical of the activities was a public meeting called at Nowra on 19th August where a full and free discussion was held between the various local authority bodies, other representative bodies and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• On the question of public information it is very interesting to consider the treatment in the United States of America of any application to build an atomic reactor. [More…]

• The first step is to apply to the United States Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The board’s decision is the decision of the United States Atomic Energy Commission unless it is reviewed. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission may review it on the appeal of any party or on its own motion. [More…]

• Finally, after all this has been done, to ensure that justice is administered fully, there is the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of the United States Congress. [More…]

• It might be the voice of the Government, but the hand is the hand of the Atomic Energy [More…]

• The explosion of one atomic bomb in the area and Newcastle and Sydney would be devastated. [More…]

• I remind the House that 10 years ago China did not have an atomic warhead. [More…]

• Conditions set out in the tender document issued by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission provide that tenderers shall supply the initial charge of fuel and at the option of the Commission they may also be called upon to provide5 years’ supply of fuel after the commencement of commercial operation of the station. [More…]

• This work is still proceeding between our consultants, Bechtel, and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Minister will- recall that some time ago the Atomic Energy Commission called tenders for a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• It has not yet been finalised but I would expect that by the end of this week I -would have the recommendation from the” Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• A team of consultants is assisting the Austraiian Atomic Energy Commission to examine those tenders. [More…]

• Are former employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission restricted., legally or otherwise, from contributing to public discussion on nuclear power stations; if so, why. [More…]

• If the contribution contained restricted information, as that phrase is defined in the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966, which was obtained in the course of the former employee’s employment or in any of the other circumstances sei out in section 48 of that Act, it would be an offence to make public that information. [More…]

• Tn this connection, it should be noted that section- 53 of the Atomic Energy Act makes it an offence for an employee- of the Commission to communicate information concerning activities of the Commission or the -contents of a document lo which he has had access by reason of being an employee. [More…]

• The information could be acquired as a result of expensive research activities, in Australia or from atomic energy activities overseas in countries wilh which we have agreements for sharing nuclear knowledge. [More…]

• of the Atomic Energy Act makes it clear that, for present purposes, the term ‘restricted information’ does not include information published in scientific or technical literature or in public statements made or authorised by or on behalf of the Commission or the Minister. [More…]

• 1561 the information referred to by the honourable member is included in reports which are al present confidential to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• The honourable member was told that the reports were confidential in the sense that they were internal to the joint considerations of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Electricity Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• Atomic Energy (Question 1562) [More…]

• If so, was he or the Australian Atomic Energy Commission aware of these statements when the answer to Question No.- 1271 (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 254) was being prepared. [More…]

• Did the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in its 1968-69 Annual Report indicate that overseas suppliers may not enter into contracts unless exempted from all third- party liabilities and nuclear materials may not be obtained from some countries unless such legislation has been enacted; if so, does the Government intend to take urgent action on this matter. [More…]

• Such agreements are designed to prevent the diversion of nuclear materials lo military purposes and are usually administered either by the supplying country or by the International Atomic Energy Agency by agreement between the supplying country and the receiving country. [More…]

• Does he intend to present to Parliament the Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for 1969-70 prior to the acceptance of the tender for the Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Station. [More…]

• Does he intend introducing legislation, as suggested in the 1968-69 Annual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission, to establish regular control over nuclear facilities and materials; if so, when. [More…]

• The licensing and regulatory control of nuclear installations is currently under study not only by various Commonwealth Departments and the Atomic Energy Commission but also by the joint Commonwealth/States Consultative Committee on Nuclear Energy! [More…]

• Will he also supply, in a tabular form similar to that provided to the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Victorian Branch) Annual Conference in 1970 by ‘officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the demand by each main reactor tyPe under consideration each year for (i) uranium, (it) heavy water, (iii) zirconium and (iv) fabricated -fuel elements. [More…]

• Has the Atomic Energy - Commission investigated Doctor dc Bruin’s concept of a combined nuclear power and water desulination plant for South Australia if so with what result. [More…]

• (2) Is he able to state the relationship oi these radionuclide emission standards to (a) International Atomic Energy standards, (b) U,1it ed States Atomic Energy Commission standards, io) standards specified by the State of Minnesota and (d) standards specified by the Stale of Maryland. [More…]

• and (2) For commercial reason* information contained in the lender specification- is al the present time restricted lo the tenderers, the Electricity Commission of New South Wales, the Atomic Energy Commission and ils consultants. [More…]

• Those specified standards are accepted by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• In addition 1 should mention that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission intends to hold a public symposium in Sydney towalds the end of the financial year. [More…]

• What alternative sources of advice on nuclear- power, other than the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, are available to the Government (a) within the Commonwealth Public Service and (b) outside the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• Atomic Energy (Question No 2171) [More…]

• Was the Australian Atomic Energy Commission established in 1953 becaues of (a) the increasing demand for industrial and domestic power, (b) Australia’s then limited resources and (c) the contention that nuclear power could provide a significant economic advantage over conventional power. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission was established in 1953 to carry out the functions prescribed in the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• to develop the practical uses of atomic energy by carrying out and assisting research, constructing plant and equipment and employing and training staff. [More…]

• to collect and distribute information relating to uranium and atomic energy. [More…]

• Will he institute an investigation into the subject matter of the book entitled ‘Without Hardware* which was written by the widow of the late Dr Clifford Dalton, a former head of the atomic research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]

• Will he also probe complaints against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and senior officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission who are said to have engaged in a conspiracy against the Dalton family? [More…]

• Of course, this means that Japan, which has no real coal reserves will have to rely on atomic energy. [More…]

• The European Nuclear Energy Agency and the international Atomic Energy Agency have both predicted a steady increase in the demand for uranium which could in 10 years time slow clown because apparently there are tremendous innovations in the development of fast breeding reactors which I am told use only approximately half the fuel or energy requirements .of conventional reactors operating at the present lime. [More…]

• Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission conducting research on atomic reactor hazards and safeguards? [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has representation on the world agency which is responsible for the maintenance of safeguards throughout the world. [More…]

• But when it comes to pushing a button to drop an atomic bomb and all the misery that went with it, it is hard for us to picture the misery that goes with that action because we are so far removed from it. [More…]

• Very few of us have seen nuclear war or atomic war. [More…]

• I am one of the few who has seen an atomic bomb exploded. [More…]

• In Queensland, the civil defence organisation is recognised only when a national emergency, for instance, an atomic attack, occurs. [More…]

• More importantly, and I believe very significantly, the Department of National Development has a responsibility in regard to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the whole question of radiation. [More…]

• Some drums of a material - thorium hydroxide - were being removed from a Department of Supply store, which has now been closed, and taken to the Atomic Energy Commission store at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• I emphasise that extreme precautions are taken by the Atomic Energy Commission in handling material of any type which comes within its possession. [More…]

• I mention also the international governmental organisations to which Australia belongs and which frequently hold meetings in Australia - in recent months, for example, the Commonwealth Education Conference, a technical conference under the International Atomic Energy Agency, and meetings of ECAFE and ANZUS. [More…]

• I refer to fuels such as atomic power, which has caused some doubt even at this stage. [More…]

• It was primarily designed to have an operational radius of some 2,000 miles and a dash capability at supersonic speeds of 230 miles, which meant that with its ground tracking radar it could travel under enemy radar and place an atomic bomb in a strategic position. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a report produced by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee entitled ‘Fallout Over Australia from Nuclear Weapons Tested by France in Polynesia from May to August 1970’. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission conducted any experiments into the manufacture of heavy water. [More…]

• The (Atomic Energy) Commission may, at its discretion, authorise the purchase of overseas fuel supplies including fabrication for the first charge and replacement fuel for a period not exceeding 5 years after start-up. [More…]

• CANDU - Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission has for many years been engaged in close studies of nuclear power developments. [More…]

• Tender specifications were prepared by the Atomic Energy Commission in conjunction with the Electricity Commission of New South Wales, and assisted by the consultants, Bechtel Pacific Corporation, and were issued to interested suppliers on 28th February 1970. [More…]

• The offers of the short-listed tenderers were subjected to a most thorough examination by the Atomic Energy Commission, the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and Bechtel Pacific Corporation. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission and the Bechtel Pacific Corporation have given very satisfactory service in this respect, ably assisted by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• This is certainly no real loss because of the valuable experience gained by officers of the Atomic Energy Commission and the electricity generating authorities. [More…]

• In this connection the Atomic Energy Commission will continue its studies of nuclear power technology and relate this to the Jervis Bay project. [More…]

• The amendment moved by the Opposition last year was a genuine attempt by the Opposition to clear up some of the doubts that existed in the minds of not only honourable members on this side of the House but also noted scientists outside the Parliament - men with reputations in the field of atomic science, physics and other related matters. [More…]

• The Opposition moved an amendment in the debate on the Estimates in order to give the Government an opportunity to examine thoroughly the economics of the introduction of nuclear power in Australia, particularly as it had been estimated by Sir Philip Baxter, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, that by the year 2000 something like $5,000m would have been spent on nuclear power stations throughout Australia. [More…]

• If a decision had been taken to proceed with the construction of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station earlier this year and the estimated expenditure had been included in this year’s Budget, I have been reliably informed that the amount required by the Atomic Energy Commission would have been in the vicinity of $6m. [More…]

• He was referring to the Atomic Energy Commission - that the time was approaching when nuclear power would be competitive with other means of power generation in some areas of Australia. [More…]

• The make of the atomic power reactor that was to be selected has also appeared in the newspapers. [More…]

• The atomic reactor that has been suggested as having been selected is the British SGHWR type reactor, 2 of which are operating in the world at the moment, one of 100 megawatts and the other of 250 megawatts. [More…]

• I understand from the official sources of the papers, directly from Cabinet, that the SGHWR reactor is the one that has been recommended by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• I and the Opposition want a select committee of this Parliament to be appointed in order that the questions that have been posed in the amendment that 1 have moved may be examined thoroughly and in order that all the experts from outside the Parliament and outside the Australian Atomic Energy Commission will have an opportunity of voicing officially their opposition to the proposal and of putting information before the members of the select committee. [More…]

• The appointment of a select committee would enable members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to give the information that this Parliament should have at its disposal before making a decision. [More…]

• First, there is a public evaluation study by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Fourthly, the Joint Committee on Atomic [More…]

• The West German Bundestag has an atomic energy committee. [More…]

• The Netherlands Parliament has a committee for atomic energy. [More…]

• AH the reasons which the Government and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission gave for the establishment of this power station still apply. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Auditor-General’s report, amongst other things, funded proportions of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s head office and research staff salaries when these officers were working on the Jervis Bay project, the purchase of premises for use by the consultants, and also expenditures incurred by the Lucas Heights research establishment. [More…]

• Also, the sum of over $400,000 was paid for premises for use as the headquarters of the consultants, and these buildings are still owned and being used by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• I said: ‘There are men in the United States who want to use atomic and nuclear weapons against you’. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the course of its normal responsibilities carries out continuing surveys of current and future supply and demand for nuclear materials and in recent months senior personnel from the Commission have had discussions with several overseas countries on enriched uranium markets and the market which might be available to Australia should it become involved in this technology. [More…]

• But all tenderers indicated that before approval to export would be given, their respective Governments would require that the nuclear power station would be subject to Safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with its Statute and Procedures. [More…]

• I believe that Australian Parliamentarians and the Australian public have a right to be told its purpose and the dangers, if any, to Australia of an atomic attack. [More…]

• It is indeed serious for Australia that a foreign base should be placed in our country which could bring about an atomic attack on this country, and I call upon the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) immediately to give a statement to the House outlining the purpose of this facility and the impact it can have on Australia’s future. [More…]

• Have we not learnt to live with the idea that we are capable of completely destroying ourselves through atomic warfare, although surely the threat is still there, as real, as terrifying, as hideous as it was in 1945? [More…]

• Pursuant to Section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953- 1966 I present the nineteenth annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30th June 1971 together with the financial statements and the Auditor-General’s report on those statements. [More…]

• The honourable member for La Trobe has suggested that China has the atomic bomb and therefore it is necessary to have 12,000 extra men. [More…]

• I am not exactly sure how 12,000 national servicemen will stop atomic weapons from being utilised or being effective in a war. [More…]

• When we endeavoured to prevent the aggressor from succeeding in Vietnam, China did not then possess even the atomic bomb. [More…]

• Whilst the conscientious objector may well be prepared to say ‘yes’ to that question, that does not imply that he would also be prepared to drop an atomic bomb on a city which contains, amongst other people, one of those persons who allegedly may rape his wife. [More…]

• Advisory Board, the Pesticides ‘ Sections of the FDA and the Fisheries and Wildlife Service, the Water Pollution Control Advisory Board, various research laboratories in several departments, the Federal Radiation Council, radiation standards of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, several noise control offices, the Pesticides Registration Programme of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Federal Water Quality Administration and many others. [More…]

• 2 of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee entitled ‘Strontium 90 and Caesium 137 in the Australian Environment During 1969 and Some Results for 1970’. [More…]

• Can he say whether (a) official United States Atomic Energy Commission estimates for 1,000 [More…]

• We are also on the fringe of the atomic age and, here again, we as an Opposition have a very strong reason for criticising the Government, because from the very first moment when it decided to buy into nuclear power until the recent indications that it intended to opt out - and I refer to the Jervis Bay fiasco - the Government’s nuclear policy has been marked by ambiguity and secrecy. [More…]

• It is noteworthy that Japan in particular, which of all countries most desperately needs atomic power, in its approaches to the United States has been rebuffed to this stage. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been functioning since 1952 and, in successive Budgets to 1969- 70, $130m has been spent on its capital works and programmes. [More…]

• Australia’s reputation in the international atomic field has been tarnished through the abortive calling of tenders or the ill conceived Jervis Bay project. [More…]

• Such a body is required to probe the inefficient administration of the Atomic Energy Commission which has been responsible for such monumental fiascos as the Jervis Bay atomic power project. [More…]

• The role of the new authority would be to set guidelines for atomic research at the Lucas Heights atomic research establishment; to make recommendations on the development of atomic power plants; to formulate a nuclear fuel policy; to give advice about Australia’s role in the world uranium enrichment industry; and to examine the relationship of atomic research to Australia’s defence requirements. [More…]

• I believe that there is very serious disillusionment with the administration of the Atomic Energy Commission which, through misguided policies, has not achieved the expectations held for it. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that this was the proposal to develop a harbour in the western part of Australia by the use of atomic detonation but, as I say, it was also abandoned. [More…]

• I am in favour of Australia going into the atomic era in a sensible and properly planned way. [More…]

• I remind him that at the last election a commitment was made by the Prime Minister of this country that Australia would develop an atomic power station at Jervis Bay, but it has now been abandoned at enormous expense. [More…]

• In view of our earlier fiascos this matter needs a lot of careful examination and, as the member for the electorate in which the Lucas Heights atomic research establishment is located, I want the Committee to know that people in very high, eminent and responsible positions at the reactor are saying precisely what I have already said, and they are very anxious to ensure that the proposed uranium enrichment project is not undertaken without proper consideration, because enormous public expenditure is involved. [More…]

• As I have said, I know personally of large numbers of dedicated people working at Lucas Heights, and I am sorry that they are disillusioned with the administration of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• There is more that I would like to say, but it is sufficient to say that it is my view that the Atomic Energy Commission needs to come under more effective parliamentary surveillance and it ought to come under effective scientific surveillance if we are to ensure that the squandering of the taxpayers’ money that has characterised the activities of the Commission in the past is to be minimised and reduced in the future. [More…]

• Work in the latter of course is carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• For example, there are contributions to the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation - UNESCO as it is generally known - the South Pacific Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]

• Extensive monitoring of fallout in Australia, including that resulting from French nuclear tests in the Pacific, has been carried out by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee. [More…]

• The buildings and equipment for this training complex were purchased from the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the text of the Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of Japan for Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) has tabled the text of an agreement for co-operation on the peaceful uses of atomic energy recently concluded with Japan. [More…]

• This is a governmenttogovernment agreement somewhat similar to the other government-to-government agreements with the United States of America and Canada and agreements which our Atomic Energy Commission has effected with counterpart organisations in the United Kingdom and France. [More…]

• The atomic energy industry in Japan is rapidly moving towards the export of nuclear power station equipment. [More…]

• The safeguards called for in the agreement will be applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency and negotiations on the details, involving tri-lateral agreement between the Agency, Australia and Japan, are now nearing completion. [More…]

• As indicated by my colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the agreement is a framework within which separate agreements can be made to cover a wide range of atomic energy projects and activities.It therefore creates the opportunity to develop with Japan to our mutual benefit the same close co-operation in the atomic energy field as already exists in other areas. [More…]

• Instead, they have resorted to direct action thus interfering with a wide range of Commonwealth activities such as the essential services provided by the Post Office, work in defence production establishments, the naval dockyards and the operations of such bodies as the Commonwealth Railways, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Works. [More…]

• 3 of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee entitled ‘Fallout Over Australia from Nuclear Weapons Tested by France in Polynesia from June to August 1971’. [More…]

• The 3 reports of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee dated February 1971, May 1971 and December 1971 which have now all been tabled provide much detailed information. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Comittee (AWTSC) which reports to me as Minister for Supply conducts 2 complementary monitoring programmes. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee - Sir Ernest Titterton, a nuclear physicist of considerable standing who has done most significant work for the Commonwealth - keeps me informed on developments in both monitoring programmes. [More…]

• I should mention that in formulating its monitoring programmes the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee takes note of the technical results and recommendations of a number of international organisations. [More…]

• These include the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). [More…]

• The results of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee’s monitoring programmes are immediately made available to the National Radiation Advisory Committee for analysis. [More…]

• The report, Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee No. [More…]

• Fresh fission products from these tests first became evident in fallout over Australia in late June 1971, some 16 days after the first explosion, and were monitored thereafter by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee to determine radiation doses to the whole body and to the thyroid. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee programme of daily sampling of milk for assay of iodine 131 content in fallout from the French nuclear weapons tests, covered 9 major population centres and included the milk being consumed by about 75 per cent of the total Australian population. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee considers it is likely that the second explosion involved a high yield device with a substantial fission component. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the monitoring programmes to which I have referred are being maintained and the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee will continue to keep a close watch on the situation. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee has assisted and cooperated with the United States Atomic Energy Commission in a world wide programme to monitor plutonium 238 in the environment by con ducting sampling and providing materials from Australia for analysis. [More…]

• It is disappointing that the Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee has not referred in its report to these developments and that the Minister has not put this material before the House. [More…]

• If there is no lower limit of safety for doses of radiation, then every additional atomic test in the atmosphere adds to the number of deaths and deformities. [More…]

• Firstly, I read with some regret of the retirement of Sir Philip Baxter, the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• I believe he made a very valuable contribution to the lot of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and to the lot of science generally in Australia. [More…]

• From that University he accepted appointment as full time chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Most of the initiative of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission rightly can be laid at the door of Sir Philip Baxter. [More…]

• I certainly hope that his services will not be lost to the Commonwealth of Australia, even though he is no longer Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• My Department and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have been in almost constant contact with the producing companies and prospective producing companies to try to bring this about, because we believe that there can be a tremendous advantage to the Australian industry if we can have established some form of orderly marketing system. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has encouraged and expanded the scientific and technological efforts of its own agencies, such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Supply. [More…]

• Geological research and survey, forestry research and atomic energy research to be carried out in CSIRO or similar independent statutory organisations. [More…]

• It would have a permanent secretariat and a rotating membership consisting of persons drawn from the CSIRO, the Atomic Energy Commission and such other civil science and technological instrumentalities as might be established by a Labor Government, together with persons drawn from industry, universities and independent research institutes. [More…]

• Does his Government oppose any further testing of atomic bombs in the Pacific region? [More…]

• Has the Minister received any questions or representations with respect to the attitude of the Australian Labour Party or the Australian trade union movement concerning the testing of atomic weapons by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]

• We should be afforded the opportunity to tell this House that, because of the type of testing and atomic plants in America today, 7 per cent of children are born deformed. [More…]

• 3 of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee on the levels of fallout over Australia from nuclear weapons tested by France in Polynesia from June to August 1971. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee is responsible to the Minister for Supply for safety aspects of the use of testing of nuclear explosive devices in Australia, for evaluation of proposals by other countries to explode nuclear devices outside Australia which might give rise to increased levels of radioactivity in Australia, and for monitoring of levels of radioactivity in the Australian environment arising from activities with nuclear explosive devices either in this country or elsewhere. [More…]

• In contrast to the operation role of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee, the National Radiation Advisory Committee has a purely advisory function. [More…]

• In part of its evaluation of the hazards to health of the 1971 French tests the National Radiation Advisory Committee followed a practice adopted by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, namely, that of comparing the radiation doses from nuclear weapons tests with the doses inevitably received by the community from natural background radiation. [More…]

• The first is the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee. [More…]

• In contrast to the operation role of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee, the National Radiation Advisory Committee has a purely advisory function. [More…]

• It may be that on the second committee, namely, the National Radiation Advisory Committee, there is some balance but the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee is made up only of physicists. [More…]

• I state quite clearly and immediately that I wish to goodness all the nations of the world would cut out the testing of atomic bombs, because I think it is getting to a stage which is dangerous to us all. [More…]

• He went on to show us the knowledge that he had of the subject by speaking in technical terms about atomic and hydrogen bombs and so on. [More…]

• I agree that all atomic testing should be cut out, but 1 am sick to death of the Labor Party making great emotive issues merely in respect of those with whom we could be friends. [More…]

• Let us hear the honourable member for Lalor and the honourable member for Reid make speeches in the Parliament - where they are paid to be - about the Chinese and Soviet Union atomic tests. [More…]

• Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission continuing its efforts to secure a buffer zone around the Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment. [More…]

• If so, (a) what are the precise details of submissions made by the Commission to present and previous Planning Authorities of New South Wales, (b) why is a buffer zone required, (c) what is the area of the proposed buffer zone, (d) what arrangements are being made to compensate property owners affected by the proposed buffer zone, (e) in what possible circumstances could the wellbeing of people, property, flora and fauna and the environment within the area of the proposed buffer zone be at risk as a consequence of activities conducted by the Commission at the Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment, and (f) were assurances given by Professor Baxter and the late General Stevens to the Sutherland Shire Council during 1954 that there could be no deleterious effects from the Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment, approval for which was being sought at that time. [More…]

• In these circumstances, the criteria established by the Atomic Energy Commission did not determine the planning proposals of the Department of Local Government. [More…]

• There are better ways of defending this country than by antagonising people by way of sabre rattling and atomic bomb rattling. [More…]

• There are also men from Qantas Airways Ltd, Trans-Australia Airlines and the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission - everything from the Material Handling Advisory Committee to the Australian Immigration Planning Council and the advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee since 1956 has monitored fall-out through some 26 stations in Australia and one in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Mr Justice Campbell will be assisted by Professor R. L. Mathews, Professor of Accounting and Public Finance of the Australian National University, and Mr M. C. Timbs, Executive Member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, as assessors. [More…]

• Pursuant to Section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966, I present the 20th annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30th June 1972 together with financial statements and the Auditor-General’s report on those statements. [More…]

• Last time a plan for an atomic reactor was trotted out by the Department of National Development as a gimmick for the election then ensuing. [More…]

• We did submit to the international atomic energy agency some proposals for amendments before the agreement was ratified. [More…]

• 3 (December 1971) of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee which stated: [More…]

• and (9) At the invitation of the French Government and with the approval of the Australian Government 2 officials of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Chairman of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee (AWTSC) visited Tahiti, the headquarters of the French Pacific Test Site, in June 1966 to examine the means established to ensure the safety of the French nuclear tests in the Pacific. [More…]

• Results from the programmes are published widely and are made available to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). [More…]

• Under the new treaty with Japan for cooperation for the peaceful uses of atomic energy, does Australia have access to the latest technology on centrifuge enrichment developed in Japan, in particular the technology developed by Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi and Kawasaki. [More…]

• The recent Agreement with Japan for co-operation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy is basically an enabling agreement under which the parties, or organisations under their jurisdiction, may make arrangements for exchanges of information and co-operative ventures in specific fields of nuclear science and technology. [More…]

• It was his decision, and his alone, to drop the atomic bomb on Japan - the only time atomic weapons have been used in war. [More…]

• Careless and unplanned use of this world’s resources if continued indefinitely will cause the destruction of future generations almost as surely as atomic warfare. [More…]

• I want to begin my speech by quoting from the draft report of the Scientific Committee on the effects of atomic radiation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. [More…]

• The Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee Report No. [More…]

• Obviously in Australia there are various existing authorities, such as the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, the Joint Coal Board, and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which would have representation on such an authority. [More…]

• There was also the development of techniques in atomic energy. [More…]

• Here again, when the Opposition was in government it set up the Atomic Energy Commission which has done a tremendous amount to develop an understanding of atomic energy in Australia. [More…]

• 4 of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee entitled ‘Strontinm-90 and Caesium-137 in the Australian environment during 1970 and some results for 1971’ compiled September 1972. [More…]

• 5 of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee entitled ‘Fallout over Australia from Nuclear Weapons tested by France in Polynesia during June and July 1972’ compiled October 1972. [More…]

• We are taking very seriously the views of unions which point out the possible dangers of fallout from French atomic tests to unborn Australian children - a danger by radiation. [More…]

• I also asked the Prime Minister about the effect of nuclear fallout from Chinese atomic tests in the atmosphere. [More…]

• Did the Government send a 3 man team of Australian scientists to inspect, on behalf of the Government, the French atomic weapons testing site at Mururoa Atoll this year. [More…]

• These changes in our policy in no way affect the restrictions placed by Australia on the export of arms, warlike stores and atomic energy materials. [More…]

• One is the independent report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which, I am told, has been given to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The Chinese Government has generally in the past made public announcements when its nuclear weapons tests have taken place; and the United States Atomic Energy Commission has released esti mates of the yield of all the tests monitored by them. [More…]

• Has he published reports numbers 4 and 5 of the Australian Atomic Weapons Testing Safety Committee which report on the fall-out from the French and other nuclear tests measured in Australia and Papua New Guinea; if not, why not? [More…]

• On 2 May 1973, the Prime Minister tabled Reports Nos 4 and5 of the Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee, together with the Report dated April 1973 of the National Radiation Advisory Committee, covering the tests in June-July 1972. [More…]

• It seeks to abolish the full time position of executive member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and substitute for it a position of part time member. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the original reason for setting up the position of executive member was that Sir Philip Baxter, when he first became Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, had other duties to perform notably as Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• Sir Philip was then the outstanding expert in Australia on atomic energy and he made a great contribution to our Australian Atomic Energy Commission, while the day to day administration was carried out by Mr Maurice Timbs who was then the executive member. [More…]

• On his retirement from the University of New South Wales Sir Philip became full time chairman of the Commission and later showed the prestige with which he is regarded throughout the world by being appointed chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors for 1969- 70. [More…]

• Now Sir Philip has retired from the position of Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and I wish to place on record my appreciation of the services of a man who devoted a great deal of time to the service of the community and the British Empire in war arid in peace and who was not only a highly competent technical officer but also an extremely able administrator. [More…]

• Al) these members have made a considerable contribution to atomic energy research and application in Australia. [More…]

• ), a senior research officer of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, who has done much to keep the Commission informed of industry’s needs and problems and to inform industry what areas there are in which atomic energy and particularly radio isotopes can be useful to them. [More…]

• This is certainly not in the technical field as it is undoubtedly the acknowledged technical expert in atomic energy in Australia. [More…]

• Finally, whilst the Commission is primarily aimed at research and advice to the Government on atomic energy, I believe that insufficient research is being undertaken in Australia in another field of energy which shows great future promise, namely, solar energy. [More…]

• I concur, of course, in the support of the Atomic Energy Bill but I think the House should realise the importance of the potential work being done by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It relates not only to the peaceful use of atomic energy; it also must have some implications in the defence field. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable member for Mackellar that the purpose of the Bill is to appoint a person as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It was alleged and apparently proved to the satisfaction of the American courts that they had given atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, which was about to make this development in nuclear technology in any event. [More…]

• When speaking on the Atomic Energy Bill recently I said that I thought the Atomic Energy Commission would be an excellent body to carry out research into power from the sun. [More…]

• We should move quickly into atomic power and hydro-power but unfortunately when it comes to hydro-power we are inclined to say: What is the use of having a vast source of hydro-power such as we have in the Snowy Mountains if the unions can cut off this power at will?’ [More…]

• I cite the advice of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which is of the considered opinion that until 1980 there will not be a true market for uranium. [More…]

• I believe that world indignation on this question was possibly brought about by that great American, Dr Linus Pauling, who pointed out in the first place the radioactive fall out from atomic bombs in the form of strontium 90. [More…]

• I will show him the United States Atomic Energy Commission’s assessment which shows quite clearly that where the Minister said that America anticipated a shortfall of 850,000 tons of uranium by 1985, this figure is at variance with what the United States Atomic Energy Commission said, which set the anticipated shortfall in 1985 at 174,000 tons, not 850,000 tons as the Minister said. [More…]

• If he wants to see the Atomic Energy Commission’s report he has only to get it or I can make it available to him. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission reports that in the Northern Territory where all our richest uranium deposits are, excepting Yeelirrie, the total expenditure for uranium prospecting during 1973 is expected to be $2.6 lm in 29,600 square miles held under prospecting rights. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission, whose advice I have followed very closely throughout my period of office and which has this statutory responsibility to advise me, informs me that our reserves are to a point to justify consideration of the first stage of a centrifuge-based enrichment plant. [More…]

• The Minister, full of contradiction, said that he places great reliance on the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Among those authorities will foe, naturally, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, the Joint Coal Board and its counterpart in Victoria, the National Pipeline Authority and the Petroleum and Minerals Authority. [More…]

• The alternatives currently are atomic energy or solar energy. [More…]

• We ought to ask whether large scale atomic energy utilisation will be able to overcome low intensity radiation hazards. [More…]

• The position with regard to the degree of pollution of the atmosphere by atomic reactors is still contentious. [More…]

• As the world for perhaps the first time is being made aware of the exhaustibility of its energy resources, particularly in fossil fuels, research upon solar conversion will increase in many parts of the world and become massive in some because of the growing doubt about the viability of the large scale use of atomic energy, and about pollution and the pollutive prospects of gasifying coal. [More…]

• Obvious constituent representatives of such an authority will be the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, the Pipeline Authority, the Joint Coal Board and the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria. [More…]

• I have in mind that the Atomic Energy Commission might be given the responsibility of conducting and co-ordinating the necessary research. [More…]

• Next Saturday we will be seeking to alter the Australian Constitution - a document not written for the atomic age but for a time more than 70 years ago. [More…]

• One of them was the atomic absorption spectrophotometer which was produced by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to analyse chemicals. [More…]

• Current world developments on the pricing of uranium oxide fully vindicate the stand that has been taken by the Government on the advice of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The other members of the Committee will be Professor G. N. Blainey, Professor of Economic History, University of Melbourne; Mr R. W. Boswell, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission; Professor D. J. Mulpaney, Professor of Pre-history, School of General Studies, Australian National Unipersity; Dr F. M. Talbot, Director, Australian Museum, Sydney; Dr D. F. Waterhouse, Chief of Division (Entomology) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Mrs Andrew Clayton, Member of the Executive Board or the National Parks and Wildlife Foundation, and Mr Frank Waters, ex-General President of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia. [More…]

• As required under the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Australian Government concluded a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on 10 July 1974, for the application of NPT safeguards on safeguardable nuclear material within Australia. [More…]

• The top 25 oil corporations control 84 per cent of oU, 72 per cent of gas, 50 per cent of coal, 80 per cent of atomic or nuclear power and 60 per cent of electric power. [More…]

• The top 25 oil companies in the United States now control 84 per cent of all oil, 72 per cent of all gas, 54 per cent of all coal and 80 per cent of all atomic power, together with 60 per cent of all electric power in the United States. [More…]

• When the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution visited the Northern Territory it found out after persistent investigation that even a Government authority- I say this advisedly- in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission had polluted the Finniss River. [More…]

• Grants by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) [More…]

• On 29 March last the necessary regulations under the Atomic Energy Act which would permit a constructive program of development were gazetted. [More…]

• There are adequate powers under the Atomic Energy Act which we will use for that purpose. [More…]

• I will be recommending to Cabinet that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission should establish its own milling plant in the Northern Territory, and we will proceed on a government to government basis in respect of the sale of uranium. [More…]

• The authority of our choice in the terms of the underwriting agreement will be the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which will be operating under its existing statutory powers. [More…]

• The forthcoming report of the Atomic Energy Commission will show that we have in Australia, recoverable and reasonably recoverable, and adding the recent Pancontinental Mining Ltd discoveries, some 300,000 short tons of uranium. [More…]

• To commence, let me stress one fact: By section 35 of the Atomic Energy Act the title to all uranium in the Northern Territory is vested in the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• It will be operated and controlled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which has every possible ability to do so. [More…]

• This is a relatively small low grade deposit owned by Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd and the existing mill there is to be upgraded with Government financial support through the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• In addition, the Minister has proposed that the existing stockpile held by the Atomic Energy Commission be used to meet some of the existing contracts. [More…]

• As far as I can gather, the following seems to be the situation: The Government, through the Atomic Energy Commission, is to establish a mill in the Northern Territory to process uranium ore from all sources into yellowcake. [More…]

• Until then, existing contracts will be met by Mary Kathleen and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• We had then gazetted regulations under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• I have already said to the House this week that we did not propose to temporise any further, that we would use the residual powers which we undoubtedly have under the Atomic Energy Act, and that we will use them to the limit. [More…]

• The powers that we have are based on legislation introduced by the Menzies coalition Government in 1953, which with the support of the Labor Party passed the Atomic Energy Act which is still the law of the land. [More…]

• The purpose of the Atomic Energy Act is the establishment of an Atomic Energy Commission to control all aspects of atomic energy in Australia from the mining of uranium to the final disposal of the fissionable material. [More…]

• Section 35 of the Atomic Energy Act clearly states that uranium and kindred substances on land in a territory of the Commonwealth, whether alienated from the Crown or not and, if alienated, whether alienated before or after the commencement of the Act are declared to become the property of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission complies with my directions in relation to the performance of its functions and the exercise of its power. [More…]

• The Opposition would be well advised, if it wants policy, to consider sections 17, 18, 19, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40 and 41 of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission advised me last July that in its next annual report it will show that the total reserves of uranium reasonably assured and estimated up to a price category of $15 would be 270,000 tons. [More…]

• There is no authority better for that purpose in Australia than the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which operates under the charter of its own legislation. [More…]

• America at the present time is prepared to let private industry in on some of the secrets which up to now have been held by the Atomic Energy Commission for the very purpose of supplying the country with the enrichment plants it will require in the decade of the 1980s. [More…]

• Then there was the gazettal of the uranium regulations under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• Despite all this obstruction by the Opposition the Minister is proceeding under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Opposition was reminded in the discussion this morning that it was the tory Government, the present Opposition, that introduced the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• Nor will the debate end with the 22nd annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which has just been released. [More…]

• Not only are there the administrative costs but also a section about which we hear little, the Division of National Mapping; the Bureau of Mineral Resources, about which we hear more and which does so much valuable work in collecting information on which decisions are made and on which the private industry has so much relied in the past; the Joint Coal Board and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• 2) are not before the Committee but we will not have an opportunity to talk about them at great length when they are before the House and in addition to capital works and services under that heading we also have the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, the Atomic Energy Authority, the Pipeline Authority and, for the first time this year- this is splendid to see- $50m appropriated for the Petroleum and Minerals Authority, the new body set up since the joint sitting of this Parliament. [More…]

• But for the most part allocations made under the Division of National Mapping, the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have shown only minor increases. [More…]

• For example, section 17 of the Australian Tourist Commission Act 1967; section 13 (3) of the Australian Wheat Board Act 1970; section 7 (3) of the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation Act 1973; section 19 of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Act 1966; section 10 ( 1) of the Australian Institute of Marine Science Act 1972; and in section 14 of the Commonwealth Scholarships Board Act 1945. [More…]

• at Board of Governors meetings and the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency and in committees associated with the IAEA. [More…]

• We must be aware that within the next 5 years many more states will either have the atomic bomb or have the capacity to build it. [More…]

• Summaries of measurements of fall-out recorded by the Australian monitoring system in 1973 have been submitted to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). [More…]

• 1 ) After ratification of the NPT on 23 January 1973 an agreement between Australia and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) was signed on 10 July 1974 to provide for implementation by the .IAEA of the safeguards required by the NPT. [More…]

• Details of the arrangements are published in an International Atomic Energy Agency information document, INFCIRC/209 issued on 3 September 1974, which is available in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• Perhaps it is not the time now to debate futuristic measures of water control, whether such measures involve use of atomic power or membrane type nitration systems. [More…]

• To give the shareholders every opportunity to subscribe to a new issue of shares worth some $22m, the Atomic Energy Commission agreed to underwrite the share issue. [More…]

• Consequently between 32 per cent and 46 per cent of the total float will be taken up by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Again, the Minister for Minerals and Energy told the House yesterday of the decision to permit the Atomic Energy Commission to take a substantial equity holding in Mary Kathleen uranium. [More…]

• In my electorate, for example, it was proposed to set up an atomic power station. [More…]

• We have signed an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the application of safeguards pursuant to ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and proposed the introduction of an international service for peaceful nuclear explosions. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]

• One senior pilot who flew over the area and who, as a very young man, had flown over Hiroshima said of the scene of devastation that the only thing he had seen nearly as bad was the scene at Hiroshima after an atomic bomb had blasted Hiroshima pretty well off the face of the earth. [More…]

• There are other authorities which were set up by the Opposition while its members were in government, such as those created by the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956 and the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]

• I do not believe there is any similarity whatsoever between bodies such as the Institute of Marine Science or the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and a body constituted to rebuild one of the viable, growing capital cities of this country. [More…]

• We have been greatly encouraged by reports that Japan has negotiated a draft agreement with the secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency on the safeguards that would enter into force after Japan’s ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]

• Had the atomic bomb been developed 5 years earlier Hitler could well have conditioned the people into accepting the destruction of a large percentage of the human race. [More…]

• -It is generally known that I have appointed to a vacancy on the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Professor Harry Messel who is known throughout Australia for his ability and drive. [More…]

• Since the delivery date for these contracts begins in 1977-1 exclude the earlier deliveries by Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd which will have to be met from the Atomic Energy Commission stockpilewhen will development of the Northern Territory uranium deposits commence so that these companies can honour their contracts? [More…]

• -The Government has been scrupulous to ensure that no negotiations for the export of uranium from Australia will take place with any country which has not subscribed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or which has not undertaken to observe the safeguards laid down by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The Government has been scrupulous to ensure that no negotiations for the export of uranium from Australia will take place with any country which has not subscribed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or which has not undertaken to observe the safeguards laid down by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Japan has undertaken to observe the safeguards laid down by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• It is to operate a central procurement and disposals organisation which will buy and sell for virtually every government department and for at least 28 government commissions, authorities and agencies, such as Trans-Australia Airlines, Qantas Airways Ltd, the Austraiian National Line, the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Very substantial progress has been made, much more than the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has in fact revealed. [More…]

• I have directed the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to pursue vigorously the program of gas centrifugation. [More…]

• The Minister states that contracts between Australian companies and Japanese power companies for the supply of uranium will be met initially out of the Atomic Energy Commission’s stockpile. [More…]

• The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) An exhaustive survey of all the research projects bearing on nuclear energy has not been undertaken, However, the twenty-second Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which was tabled in Parliament on 17 October 1974, lists at pages 105 to 110: the main research programs in progress within the Commission; research contracts awarded by the Commission during the year 1973-74; and research projects carried out within Australian tertiary education institutions with support by the Australian Government through the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the House whether the 72 Vi per cent contribution by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the development of a mill is a capital payment which will give the Commission 50 per cent equity in the project, or is it just a loan for which the Commission will obtain 50 per cent of the production? [More…]

• The ultimate situation, of course, is one in which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission itself will be conducting all exploration for and mining of uranium in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It also has particular responsibility for the coordination of Australia’s relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• I emphasise that point because at various stages over the last few years Labor Party organisations have suggested that atomic bombs and so forth may be kept at this base. [More…]

• Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 14- Atomic Energy Commission studies on costs of electricity at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• It permits the export of uranium to non-parties, but requires that specific International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards apply to such exports and that such uranium be not used in nuclear explosive devices, including those for peaceful purposes. [More…]

• The Government adheres to its international obligations under the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]

• As evidence of this I give the following examples: We would have abandoned the uranium exploration of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Davy, ‘Nuclear Power and Environmental Pollution’, Atomic Energy in Australia, Volume 14, Nos. [More…]

• Bendun, ‘Meteorological Research Studies at Jervis Bay, Australia’, Australian Atomic Energy Commission Report E309, July 1974. [More…]

• It must be most disturbing, and certainly was during my visit to Japan, to find that the Japanese Atomic Energy Commission is undertaking an intensive program of research into steel making by nuclear methods. [More…]

• While there is no energy policy applicable to Australia as a whole, research in the field of energy on the contrary is placed under Commonwealth responsibility within 3 bodies- the National Coal Research Committee, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and for petroleum research the Bureau of Mineral Resources. [More…]

• Uranium policy was left to the Department of National Development which regarded it as purely another mining activity and nuclear policy as such was framed and pursued by the scientists of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• An agreement has been signed between the Australian Government and the Northern Territory producers to produce uranium and to refine it in a process which will be operated by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• After the Atomic Power Station at Jervis Bay was dropped in 1971 as a national economy measure, was any request received from the New South Wales Government to restore this project to meet the power generation needs of that State. [More…]

• He has been hoodwinking us for years and years, having got dispensation, no doubt, from the Kremlin to make these attacks on the Communist Party because this is the way he can suck us in and make us believe that here we have a friend, a man we can trust, a man we can talk to, discuss defence problems with, discuss the secrets of our atomic potential and all this kind of thing, knowing all the time that whatever we tell him is safe in his hands because he is always such a devout anti-communist. [More…]

• Under agreements with Japan, France and Liberia, the United States provides only the transmitter, the atomic clock and the control electronics which assure signal uniformity. [More…]

• To some extent, too, government agencies such as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Joint Coal Board join in the search. [More…]

• In the last decade, while the United States has continued to maintain a parity at the atomic and hydrogen level, at the conventional military level the Soviet Union has moved into a position of quantitative superiority. [More…]

• In other words, he is backing Labor policy, which is to make sure that from now on no private exploration will be allowed in the Northern Territory and that we will deal with companies that are presently there on a profit sharing basis because title for the reserves is vested in the Commonwealth of Australia under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• In 19S3 Mr Menzies, in passing the Atomic Energy Act, took possession for the Crown of uranium in Australia. [More…]

• I have seen newspaper reports about the French Atomic Energy Commission seeking a permit to explore for uranium north of the Broken Hill area in New South Wales. [More…]

• Does he include amongst them Japan with its constitutional restrictions on the possession of atomic weapons? [More…]

• I would welcome any expression of interest by private enterprise in these activities and I would like to see companies indicate their interest to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It followed hard upon comments of equal irresponsibility by Sir Phillip Baxter, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission, appointed to that post by a LiberalCountry Party government, holding a post under legislation introduced by that Government. [More…]

• What is the Minister going to do about the Atomic Energy Act 1953- which was introduced by his own coalition government and supported by the then Labor Opposition- which vested in the Commonwealth of Australia the sole ownership of uranium in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• All projects other than the joint Atomic Energy CommissionPekoWallsend project will be affected by this policy. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s view is that as all title to uranium in the Northern Territory is vested in the Commonwealth under the terms of the Menzies 1952 Atomic Energy Act, then only a Commonwealth agency such as the Atomic Energy Commission should be allowed to explore for it in the Northern Territory and any new deposits would then have the 100 per cent Australian equity. [More…]

• The Government has already announced that, in its view, there is no justification whatever for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to continue field exploration for uranium. [More…]

• -The Government has, in fact, applauded the decision by the Japanese Diet to ratify the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty under the terms of which non-nuclear weapon states undertake not to receive, manufacture or acquire by any means nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and agree to place all civil nuclear facilities under international atomic energy agency safeguards. [More…]

• In the latter connection, the United States Congress in December 1974 enacted a Law- Public Law 93-513- pursuant to which, as was made clear by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, the United States accepts absolute liability for any nuclear damage which might result from a nuclear incident involving the reactor of a United States warship. [More…]

• Defence and Australian Atomic Energy Commission scientists have participated in the examinations and relevant matters have received consideration by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]

• The President said: ‘No ‘, and he proceeded to order one of his own pilots to drop an atomic bomb on New York in order to prove to the Russians that it was not a deliberate attack but an accident. [More…]

• B) Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]

• In relation to the Atomic Energy Act 1953, the amendment seeks to leave out the words ‘the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea, or any of those Territories’. [More…]

• I saw an announcement a couple of days ago and was informed that the Peko-Wallsend group received a contract with the Iranian Atomic Energy Commission to search for uranium in Iran. [More…]

• That course was recommended in a recent report by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Government has removed the Australian Atomic Energy Commission from uranium mining at a time when the importance to Australia of close control of uranium export policies is essential for orderly marketing and the structure of marketing is going to be crucial. [More…]

• It led to the setting up in 1953 of the Atomic Energy Commission, after the South Australian Government and the Commonwealth had agreed to export uranium so that Australia would have the best technical expertise available to co-operate with the States and allow Australia to move, if needed,- into nuclear power generation. [More…]

• The largest item of expenditure relates to running expenses under the Atomic Energy Act and amounts to $ 19,668,000 as compared with an expenditure of $18,367,278 last year. [More…]

• Again, there is a very wide field of associated interests, such as defence scientific research, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Bureau of Mineral Resources. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]

• Provision will be made to make it clear, where the Bill like the former Labor Government’s Bill left some doubt that the requirements of consent and agreement on terms and conditions for mining on Aboriginal land applied equally to mining undertaken under the Atomic Energy Act as it does for mining carried out under the mining ordinances of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Has the Minister considered taking legislative action similar to that taken by the Canadian Government last September where it approved a regulation under the Atomic Energy Control Act to prevent removal from Canada of information relating to this matter? [More…]

• If the Government’s policy is to meet the existing contracts to Japan, the United States and West Germany, which amount to 1 1 757 short tons, supplied from the remaining ore body at Mary Kathleen and from the Atomic Energy Commission stockpile, it will amount to a policy to export 2.8 per cent of Australia’s total reserves under the existing contracts. [More…]

• A study paper prepared by the brilliant Mr William Wright and Mr John Silver of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has stated that the immediate setting up of a uranium industry, with the aid of scientists, could result in earnings of $3,000m a year by 1985. [More…]

• The paper, published in the Commission’s monthly digest, Atomic Energy, says that such an industry could directly employ 3500 people with another 3000 in indirect projects. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency can similarly be abrogated after 6 months. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act 1 953 or any other Act authorising mining for minerals does not apply in relation to land that is Aboriginal land so as to authorise the entry or remaining of a person on the land or the doing of any act by a person on the land unless- [More…]

• b ) that act is done in the course of, or in connexion with, mining operations authorised by a law of the Northern Territory or by the Atomic Energy Act 1953 or any other Act authorising mining for minerals and the Minister has authorised, in writing, the doing of that act. [More…]

• Are Australian scientists being sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission to receive training in the United States of America in general nuclear technology. [More…]

• If so, does this training include the processing of nuclear power and the manufacture of plutomom which can be usedin atomic bombs. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has one research scientist attached to the Stanford Research Institute in the United States of America undertaking research into applications of radioisotopes. [More…]

• No other Australian scientist is being sponsored by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for training in the U.S.A. [More…]

• The then Minister for Supply chose to infer in his answers to questions on 13 and 14 September 1972 that the nuclear wastes in question were radio active debris associated with British atomic weapons testing in the 1950s. [More…]

• Mr Avon Hudson who worked at Maralinga during the 1960s has claimed that, in the early 1 960s, the British Government was secretly using the Maralinga atomic test site as a burial ground for waste from nuclear power stations. [More…]

• For instance, the waste, if it were dumped then, could not have been from the debris resulting from the atomic test program in the 1950s. [More…]

• Yet these reports suggest that radio active waste was buried at least 3 years after the last atomic tests. [More…]

• In 1972, with the United States Government’s blessing obviously, the United States Atomic Energy Commission authorised the release of SO 000 tons of stockpiled uranium. [More…]

• Has the Minister considered taking legislative action similar to that taken by the Canadian Government last September where it approved a regulation under the Atomic Energy Control Act to prevent removal from Canada of information relating to this matter? [More…]

• Is it true that, during the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing between 1958 and 1961, Australia co-operated with the British in conducting secret atomic ‘trigger’ tests at Maralinga and that waste and debris from these tests were buried at Maralinga? [More…]

• In 1968 the British Atomic Energy Weapons Research Establishment made a report concerning material buried at Maralinga. [More…]

• Will the Minister make experts from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation available to participate in the public debate on the mining of uranium to help fulfil the recommendation in the Fox Report. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for National Resources, to whom the relevant part of the question should be directed. [More…]

• With that, all foreign policy in fact has been atomic policy, because it has been the nature and the possession of the new weapons which have determined the course of history and the way in which the greater nations could act in order to further what they thought were their own interests. [More…]

• My old friend the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), whom I respect in many ways and who has just come into this chamber, at one time suggested that Australia should use its influence to drop an atomic bomb on the People’s Republic of China. [More…]

• At a minimum, where an importing country is a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, then the safeguards which are applied are those under an agreement between that country and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Under such safeguard arrangements for shipment and receipt of the material, arrangements are required to be reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has introduced more intensive measures of reporting and inspection of the materials when it becomes suitable for nuclear fuel and enrichment. [More…]

• Again, to the best of my knowledge, where an importing country is not a party to the non proliferation treaty arrangements, arrangements can nevertheless be made for the application of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• I am aware that there is a good deal of new thinking internationally on adequate control of reprocessing and plutonium management, including studies being conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission has always had a minimal and superficial interest in waste disposal. [More…]

• Secondly, such sales must be the subject of an International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards agreement, or its equivalent. [More…]

• Their urgency is accepted throughout the world’s atomic and scientific community. [More…]

• These arrangements require the application of safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to material supplied by Australia to all non-nuclear-weapon states. [More…]

• It has also been proposed that the Government or the Atomic Energy Commission should sponsor an Australian tour by Dr Dixie Lee Ray, Governor of Washington State and a leading pro-nuclear figure in the United States. [More…]

• A noted European physicist takes time out from his research to interject a humorous and carefully constructed satire into the atomic developments. [More…]

• Four seminars were held under the Agreement as follows: on ‘Fruit Flies’ in Honolulu from 28 November to 2 December 1976; on ‘Plant Response to Salinity ‘ at Riverside, California, from 26 to 28 April 1 976; on ‘Determination of Momentum Wave Function in Atomic Molecular and Nuclear Systems’ at Bloomington, Indiana, from 31 May to 4 June 1976; on ‘Electric Arc Interruption and Power Testing’ held in Sydney from 17 to 21 May 1976. [More…]

• That is, provided it is understood that arrangements to meet these pre-December ‘72 contract commitments are supplied from ore mined at the Mary Kathleen Mine in Queensland and ore supplied from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission stockpile. [More…]

• Thirdly, on the level of international relations, Australia must use its influence as a member of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure the extension of IAEA inspection of nuclear materials to a 24-hour, around-the-clock regime. [More…]

• According to statistics compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) there were 150 nuclear power plants operating in 19 countries at 30 June and a further 337 units were under construction or on order. [More…]

• On what dates, at what places and with which government officials and international organisations were discussions held on nuclear safeguards matters by the group of officers from the Departments of Foreign Affairs and National Resources and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission between 22 November and 22 December 1976. [More…]

• Discussions were also held with officers of the Commission of the European Communities (in Brussels, 29 November 1976, and in Luxembourg, 30 November 1976) and staff of the International Atomic Energy Agency (in Vienna, 2 and 3 December 1976). [More…]

• In addition, officers of the Depanment of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission stationed in Vienna held discussions with Government officials of France (in Paris, 9 and 10 December 1976) and Italy (in Rome, 13 and 14 December 1976). [More…]

• Basically the reasons for this decision by the corporations is that the stockpile available from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission of roughly 2000 short tonnes was not to my knowledge adequately tested. [More…]

• The major interest of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the field of waste management is concerned with wastes from mining and milling of uranium ores. [More…]

• 1 ) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has not decided to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• At the conclusion of the recent Salzburg Conference, the most important international conference held in recent years on all aspects of nuclear power, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency referred to the agreement of the meeting that nuclear power was a necessary and irreplaceable source of the future energy supply to mankind for both the short and the longer term. [More…]

• The major systems of international safeguards are administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The need to keep policy under review; careful selection of eligible customers for uranium; the application of effective International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards; bilateral agreements with customer countries; fallback safeguards; prior Australian Government consent in relation to re-export, enrichment and reprocessing; physical security; safeguards provisions in contracts; and international and multilateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]

• The Government is aware that work has recently been under way within the International Atomic Energy Agency on a new system of equally stringent safeguards to cover the entire nuclear industry in non-nuclear weapon states which are not parties to the NonProliferation Treaty. [More…]

• We will therefore export only to nuclear weapon states which give Australia this assurance and accept that the uranium we supply be covered by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• Third, the Government wishes to ensure that if a decision is taken to permit new uranium export, the uranium will be covered by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards from the time it leaves Australian ownership. [More…]

• Accordingly, it will be the Government’s policy that any future sales arrangements for exports of Australian uranium should be such that the uranium will be in a form which attracts full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards by the time it leaves Australian ownership. [More…]

• The fundamental undertakings the Government will wish to obtain from uranium importing countries in such bilateral agreements are that nuclear material supplied by Australia for peaceful purposes or nuclear material derived from its use will not be diverted to military or explosive purposes and that International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards will apply to verify compliance with this undertaking. [More…]

• I have already made clear that Australia would not be prepared to export uranium to such countries in the absence of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards applied under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]

• Moreover, the Government feels it is reasonable to ask importing countries who will already accept International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards of comprehensive scope under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, to accept that, at the first fallback level also, international safeguards should apply to all nuclear material not just that portion supplied by Australia. [More…]

• In addition, we believe the agreements should specify compliance with standards of physical security based, at a minimum, on International Atomic Energy Agency recommendations as presently defined and as updated from time to time. [More…]

• We will also continue to attach major importance to the effective application of safeguards by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The policy has been the subject of detailed exchanges of views with other countries- both uranium importers and major nuclear exporters- and relevant international organisations including the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• I take just one specific component of the Government’s safeguard policy to illustrate how poorly thought out these safeguards are, apart from the implied reliance upon the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, which the Fox Commission said were next to useless and which the Opposition has referred to constantly in this House. [More…]

• The Prime Minister says that the Government will insist upon agreements with such countries containing clauses ensuring that nuclear materials supplied by Australia for peaceful purposes or nuclear material derived from it will not be diverted to military or explosive purposes and, further, that International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards will apply to verify compliance with this undertaking. [More…]

• 1 ) Will he provide a full accounting of the item appearing on page 1 1 6 of the 1 975-76 Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission as incidental expenditure of $1.8 million. [More…]

• He rubbished the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• In rubbishing the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, the honourable member has said that there is an implied reliance in the Government’s policy on IAEA safeguards which, he claims, the Fox Inquiry said were next to useless. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister said that I had rubbished- that is the world he used- the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• All I am saying is that the International Atomic Energy Agency is an imperfect instrument in a very imperfect nuclear world and that the basis of the Government’s safeguards policy is too reliant upon the IAEA system of safeguards which is clearly inadequate. [More…]

• That is that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has made new discoveries in the Alligator River area, not proved as to their magnitude but indicating that under that plain there are numbers of Nabarleks, Rangers and Pancontinentals still to be discovered. [More…]

• The Commission feels this threat, despite the extensive precautions taken under the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards system, to an appropriate commentary on those 2 systems, one can only note President Carter’s recent actions which tends to suggest that those 2 agreements probably are nowhere near as safe as we believed. [More…]

• India is not and was not then a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the safeguards that applied to India at the time were rudimentary and did not exclude the so-called peaceful nuclear explosion; nor did the agreement with Canada apply International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• Uranium would be supplied to nuclear weapon states only if they gave assurances that the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards standards would be maintained. [More…]

• The decision of the Nixon administration in 1973 to allow private enterprise to take over from the Atomic Energy Commission meant that in 1974, when the United States Atomic Energy Commission announced it was to cease selling uranium, it artifically forced prices to skyrocket. [More…]

• He was released 3 years afterwards in 1945, as a result of the first use of atomic weapons in a world war. [More…]

• So it can truly be said that the atomic weapons used at that time were used to stop World War II, not to further the development of war. [More…]

• We know the enemy at that time was developing the know-how and experience that could have led to the development of an atomic weapon. [More…]

• I wish to quote from an information paper entitled Third Party Liability for Nuclear Damage issued by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• In Australia we cannot make a decision on the basis of the argument about terrorists, atomic bombs etc. [More…]

• careful selection of eligible customers for uranium; the application of effective International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards- [More…]

• Atomic weapons are becoming the growing concern of more and more people as they learn about and interest themselves in the mining of uranium and the purposes for which some countries may ultimately use the uranium. [More…]

• He pointed out in one of his lectures that some 10 000 young people between the ages of 7 and 12 years had died in the United States of leukaemia and that it was believed that these deaths had been brought about by the testing of atomic weapons in the atmosphere by the United States before it was agreed- [More…]

• I have often wondered whether that was the result of the atomic testing that occurred in the atmosphere some years ago before the great powers agreed to the outlawing of such testing. [More…]

• For example, on the question of waste, a committee of my Party in this Parliament recently had before it Dr Hardy of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was said to be a pro-uranium man very strongly in favour of nuclear energy as a source of power, and I believe he is. [More…]

• In other words, we would be the garbage dump for atomic waste. [More…]

• These submissions were put before us by a very eminent atomic scientist in Australia. [More…]

• Yes, in geologically sound areas, and it should then be guarded for 1000 years to ensure that it could not be obtained for purposes of manufacturing atomic bombs and so on. [More…]

• We are aware that these days individuals who can obtain plutonium can make crude atomic bombs with the use of science magazines published in the United States. [More…]

• Terrorists will turn to making crude home-made atomic bombs. [More…]

• However, the whole world has so changed since the dropping of the first and second atomic bombs. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard Table 3 from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s twenty-fourth annual report. [More…]

• But our own Atomic Energy Commission can take definite action. [More…]

• We are in a position to demand representation on the Atomic Energy Control Commission in Vienna. [More…]

• The Research Establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission discharges about nine million litres of waste water each month to the non-potable upper tidal reaches of the Woronora River. [More…]

• Contamination of the Woronora River by the waste water discharged from the Research Establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission could not prevent its safe use by humans. [More…]

• 1 ) What methods are used to dispose of radioactive waste from the Atomic Energy Commission’s nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• 1 ) I am advised that radioactive wastes from nuclear reactors at Lucas Heights are disposed of in conjunction with other radioactive wastes from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ‘s research establishment as follows: [More…]

• Saftey measures taken to ensure maximum protection from the effects of radioactive wastes at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ‘s research establishment are: [More…]

• What monitoring of the levels of radioactivity in the Woronora River are undertaken by the Atomic Energy Commission or other Federal departments or agencies. [More…]

• 1 ) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has carried out since 1959 a comprehensive program of monitoring the levels of radioactivity in the Woronora River, in biological materials associated with it, and on beach and bottom sands. [More…]

• This work was summarised for the decade 1 960- 1969, and the significance of the results assessed, in a paper presented to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva in 1971. [More…]

• What plans exist in his Department for the evacuation and protection ofpersons and property in the areas surrounding the Atomic Energy Commission nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• Responsibility for plans for the protection of persons and property in the Lucas Heights area, and their co-ordination, rests with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• What plans exist in his Department for the evacuation and protection of persons and property in the areas surrounding the Atomic Energy Commission nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• Responsibility for the co-ordination of plans for the protection of persons and property in the Lucas Heights area rests with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Government is satisfied that the specification of standards of physical security by the International Atomic Energy Agency constitutes the basis upon which national governments can provide strong protection against nuclear terrorism. [More…]

• The Memorandum of Understanding provides for the Commonwealth, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, to engage in a joint venture with Peko/EZ for the mining of uranium at Ranger, beginning with the establishment of a mine of 3,300 short tons capacity. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to retain the Memorandum of Understanding will mean that the Ranger Project will therefore be developed under the Atomic Energy Act as envisaged by the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• The Ranger Inquiry recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act on the grounds that this legislation was enacted largely with defence considerations in mind. [More…]

• Having reviewed this matter the Government nevertheless considered that the Atomic Energy Act provides an appropriate basis for mining operations at Ranger in accordance with the agreements concluded between the companies and the Commonwealth in 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• In coming to this conclusion, the Government had regard to the view of the Ranger Inquiry that its concern over the appropriateness of the Atomic Energy Act would have less force if the Uranium Advisory Council recommendation of the Inquiry were adopted. [More…]

• In particular, the working panel which proposed it drew on a code of practice prepared by the International Labour Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• It took account of recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and discussions in expert panels convened by the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• It studied papers presented to, and discussions at, an International Symposium on Radiation Protection in Mining and Milling of Uranium and Thorium arranged by the World Health Organisation, the International Labour Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The working panel was aware that the International Atomic Energy Agency has in preparation a manual, with explanatory guidelines, on the management of radioactively contaminated wastes and effluents arising in the mining and milling of radioactive ores. [More…]

• An integral part of the improvement in the safeguards regime that I called for in March was that Australia should join with others in obtaining agreement for around-the-clock International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of materials, subject to Agency safeguards. [More…]

• Moreover, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in June this year that there were deficiencies in member states’ safeguards systems. [More…]

• International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards are the most advanced safeguards in the world. [More…]

• -I have been to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and have spoken to some of our experts there. [More…]

• Under the International Atomic Energy Agency agreements a signatory country can withdraw on six months notice to the parties. [More…]

• In fact the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs said today that the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency agreements were the first and second cornerstones of government policy. [More…]

• The Minister went on to talk about bilateral agreements which, as I interpret what he said, are very much a restatement of the International Atomic Energy Agency agreements. [More…]

• Recently I had the opportunity to visit the atomic energy plant at Lucas Heights in Sydney. [More…]

• Professor Kerr could have added another one which relates to the use of the Atomic Energy Act, to which I will refer later. [More…]

• The policy contained four so-called safeguards- firstly, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; secondly, the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards; thirdly, bilateral agreements; and, fourthly, participation in multilateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]

• I want to refer finally and quickly to the fact that the Government also committed a major breach of the Fox Commission recommendations when it decided to base uranium mining on the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• It is difficult to believe other than that the Government decided to base uranium mining on the Atomic Energy Act because of the measures that this would give to it to enable it to take action against unions and people who might be trying to obstruct uranium mining. [More…]

• One of the many repressive aspects of the Atomic Energy Act is that all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission are as if those works were approved defence projects within the meaning of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]

• Also, in terms of the Atomic Energy Act itself, there are many penalties provided against workers involved in uranium mining if they take any action such as a strike. [More…]

• The first major contradiction was disclosed by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition ( Mr Uren) yesterday when he showed that the Government was using the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947-73 in relation to uranium mining. [More…]

• We distinguish between the peaceful and non-peaceful uses of atomic energy. [More…]

• We, therefore, support the mining of uranium providing this is done under strict, supervised controls and in accordance with the safety and health regulations applied by the World Health Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The Government is satisfied that the standards of physical security by the International Atomic Energy Agency constitute the basis upon which national governments can provide strong protection against nuclear terrorism. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony) said in the course of this debate that the Government was basing its authority on the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• In my view there is no basis within the present constitutional framework for the Government to rely on the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• I want to quote what the Fox Commission said when dealing with the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• An alternative for Ranger left open by the Land Rights Act is an authority to mine under the Atomic Energy Act 1 953. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act is related to defence and the defence power is where it can be based. [More…]

• At least the Government might encourage that to be done and not suggest that everything is in order because it can use the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• -Some 32 years ago the world was horrified to see the unleashing of the greatest force that man had ever known; that was the explosion of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]

• They are certainly more significant, but must be seen in parallel with those of both the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]

• The areas which are being covered by the Australian Government in terms of safeguards are the need to keep policy under constant review, a careful selection of eligible customers for uranium, the application of effective international atomic energy safeguards, bilateral agreements with customer countries, fall-back safeguards, prior Australian Government consent in relation to reexport, enrichment and reprocessing, constant physical security, safeguard provisions in contracts and international multi-lateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]

• I draw them from a report entitled ‘Uranium Resources and Requirements’ published by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and written by Messrs Silver and Wright. [More…]

• It has suggested the application of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Club was set up after the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency and its safeguards and after all the talk about how we will control the diversion of nuclear material for the purpose of making bombs. [More…]

• The annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for 1973-74 states that reasonably assured resources in Australia are presently estimated at 188,000 tonnes uranium forming a significant part of total estimated world resources . [More…]

• I note that the proposed board of Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd was to consist of four directors, two to be appointed by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and one each to be appointed from Peko and EZ Industries. [More…]

• Briefly, the Government’s safeguards policy is an eleven-point program which requires: Continual review and improvement of international safeguards standards; the considered selection of customer countries according to strict and comprehensive criteria of eligibility; the application of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards; the prior conclusion of bilateral agreements to ensure that nuclear material supplied by Australia is used for peaceful and non-explosive purposes; the provision of fall-back safeguards to cover the possibility of IAEA safeguards at some time ceasing to apply in a customer country; prior Australian consent to re-export; prior Australian consent to enrichment of Australian uranium beyond 20 per cent uranium 235; Prior Australian consent to reprocessing; adequate physical protection of the nuclear industries in customer countries; the inclusion of safeguards implementation provisions in commercial contracts; and Australian contribution to constructive multilateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]

• Contrary to the advice of the Inquiry, the whole issue was then brought within the scope of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947-1973 and the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1956. [More…]

• It then whipped out the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1956, which just happened to contain a clause which suited it. [More…]

• So if the Atomic Energy Commission carries out any works they will be, by definition, approved defence projects and will carry with them the penalties previously mentioned. [More…]

• He said that Australia had done all it could to see that other countries adhered to the International Atomic Energy [More…]

• That is why I passionately believe in the Labor Party’s policy that a moratorium of at least two years should be maintained until the world can overcome the unknown, unsolved problems regarding the successful disposal of atomic waste. [More…]

• The honourable member for St George pointed out that there are in operation pilot schemes which have been successful in the disposal of atomic waste. [More…]

• Then under the supervision of the new Australian Atomic Energy Commission subsidiaries of Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd at Rum Jungle and Mary Kathleen and smaller companies in other places quickly began mining. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act makes provision to gaol anyone who impedes its production and export. [More…]

• However, residues were left behind which, according to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission estimates, will continue to pollute the local environment at Rum Jungle over an area of 100 square kilometres for at least 100 years. [More…]

• An examination of that would reveal that there is no change in the incidence of leukaemia whether or not atomic tests are being carried out. [More…]

• In a previous debate in this House, during the last session of parliament, I referred to a proposal put forward by an officer of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Fox reports refer to the Atomic Energy Act and state that it cannot be used. [More…]

• The FDP main federal committee decided several weeks ago that building permission for atomic power stations should be refused until permission had been granted for the first stage of building for an atomic waste re-processing plant. [More…]

• There was a great debate in the United States as to whether the military or civilians ought to be in charge of atomic energy. [More…]

• It goes beyond it in these respects: The customer non-nuclear weapon states must be parties to the nonproliferation treaty involving International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards and accept our additional safeguards requirements under the bilateral treaties which they must enter into with us; existing nuclear weapon states must agree that Australian uranium will not be used for military purposes and be covered by IAEA safeguards. [More…]

• A report produced by the Canadian Atomic Energy Commission stated quite clearly that the risk of 1,000 people being killed by an accident with a nuclear reactor is about one-ten thousandth of the risk of that number of people being killed as a result of the failure of a dam or a reservoir. [More…]

• The real issue facing the world today is the energy crisis and this is what the world should be tackling so that collectively we can overcome this crisis other than by the use of atomic energy which will pollute this world for the next 250,000 years. [More…]

• The Parliamentary Labor Party’s environmental committee had a representative of the Atomic Energy Commission address it. [More…]

• -The International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed a view on that matter. [More…]

• I would like to come to that fairly shortly because the view that the International Atomic Energy Agency has expressed is not dissimilar to the position which has been taken by the Government. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• At the Salzburg conference Dr Eklund, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency had this to say: [More…]

• -Today the advice of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was sought on whether the view of the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed at Salzburg had in any sense been varied. [More…]

• Quite plainly, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said that they are known. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency does believe that technology exists for the proper disposal of wastes. [More…]

• In a report by Des Power from London in an AM broadcast this morning, the transcript of which is headed ‘International Atomic Energy authority spokesman says technology exists for safe nuclear waste disposal’, the following question was asked: [More…]

• Do you think the Australian Prime Minister is right then in claiming that there are sufficient methods of disposal of atomic waste? [More…]

• It is true that at the end of it the spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency made a point when he was asked: Is it proven? [More…]

• Quite clearly the International Atomic Energy Agency does not believe that the development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes should be held up while further work is done in relation to the matter of waste. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition meant what he said on the television program Monday Conference he would take the word of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Does he agree with the evidence given on behalf of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to Senate Estimates Committee A last week that the disposal of nuclear waste by processing on an industrial basis has not been economic to date and that the actual carrying out of disposal on a commercial basis has not been attempted because it has not been economic and is not economic even today. [More…]

• Has he noted the evidence given on the same occasion in answer to questions by one of his own followers that the Atomic Energy Commission is not now sufficiently well represented overseas to keep in touch with developments around the world and has expressed great concern about its staff levels whicn have been imposed by his Government? [More…]

• In respect of that evidence what steps have been taken to restore the Atomic Energy Commission’s representation overses to an adequate basis? [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman can be assured that the Atomic Energy Commission maintains very close liaison on the matters under discussion by the House and is as well informed as it is possible to be. [More…]

• I would have thought that would demonstrate very clearly the statements of the Atomic Energy Commission that the technology does exist, that it is applied, and that it has operated on a trial basis but on a very large trial basis indeed. [More…]

• I am sure that the point being made by the Atomic Energy Commission is well known: There has not been a move from the trial plants to commercial plants before this time because the amount of waste to be disposed of in this way had not required it- and there is no other reason than that. [More…]

• However, I quote from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ‘s journal of July 1976. [More…]

• The Fox report and the information from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission do not seem to support the Opposition’s call for a suspension of the reintroduction of mining and export of uranium. [More…]

• The establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was on the way when the Chifley Government was defeated in 1948. [More…]

• The reports to which the honourable member has referred are confidential studies by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Electricity Commission of New South Wales prepared for management. [More…]

• You are trying to scare the Australian nation into believing that it is unsafe to use simple atomic or nuclear reactors for energy. [More…]

• You do not even know that the Soviet Union at this moment is building one of the most powerful atomic breeder reactors ever seen. [More…]

• It is turning out simple reactors for atomic energy, like Mr Ford turned out motor cars. [More…]

• A Labour government in Britain secretly, without even telling its own organisation, authorised the explosion of the first British atomic bomb. [More…]

• Thank goodness the British Labour Party had the good, sound sense to understand that following the explosion of the first British atomic bomb there would be a peaceful use for uranium and atomic reactors. [More…]

• How could Mr Hawke, with all his stupidity, really believe that in today’s world the Labor Party would say that it would deny atomic energy or the uranium of our country to the underdeveloped nations? [More…]

• Fancy the Australian unions being the only unions in the world that are against the exporting of atomic energy. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite pretend that we do not know that Australia was involved in atomic energy protection arrangements. [More…]

• In 1956 Australia was one of the first governors of the atomic energy board which was designated as the body to regulate all atomic energy operations in this part of the world. [More…]

• I am stunned to think that no member of the Opposition has said with pride that in the early days of 1956 we were members of the atomic energy board in Europe. [More…]

• Now they talk about atomic waste. [More…]

• The say that we do not know how to cope with atomic waste. [More…]

• Secondly, if we export uranium are we certain that the International Atomic Energy Agency can police it? [More…]

• Thirdly, is there a technology which can deal with atomic waste when it comes out of all the ordinary reactors around the world? [More…]

• There has been no injury from atomic energy reactors. [More…]

• My conviction is that the International Atomic Energy Agency itself is not satisfied with the standards which have been set down. [More…]

• But on this occasion in this debate I think it is fair enough to point out that everything that he said about the development of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, about the speeches of the late Rt Hon. [More…]

• Subsequent to the explosion of an atomic bomb in South Australia, people from the South Australian Government set out to discover whether any ill effects could be detected. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) There have been several investigations on the disposal of the debris which resulted from the series of British atomic tests and experiments at the Maralinga area. [More…]

• After the series had been concluded, the areas involved were cleaned up in 1967 by the British to comply with standards set by the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee (AWTSC) - an Australian body. [More…]

• Are they supplied by the Australian Radiation Laboratory and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• At present they are supplied to users by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission following orders placed by the Australian Radiation Laboratory or they are supplied from the Australian Radiation Laboratory following importation of material from overseas. [More…]

• Currently the Australian Radiation Laboratory is required to provide to users radio-pharmaceuticals and radio-isotopes that are available from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Currently radio-pharmaceuticals and radio-isotopes required in ‘kit’ form or for medical research are purchased by the user from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission or from any of 37 overseas suppliers of which 30 have Australian agents. [More…]

• They are not able to measure radioactivity of wastes, that is a matter for the Australian Radiation Laboratory of the Department of Health and/or the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Eighteen months ago the Fraser Government tried to sell the Atomic Energy Commission’s 42 per cent equity in Mary Kathleen Uranium. [More…]

• They are having discussions with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and with my own Department, and they are meeting with various State governments to see how much interest they can work up. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (The Commission), Peko and EZ shall carry on a joint venture in the Northern Territory for [More…]

• Shall grant any necessary and appropriate authorities under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• They are worried about the disposal of the uranium waste after the uranium has been used in atomic power stations. [More…]

• It is my hope and wish that not in my lifetime will Australia have to resort to the generation of power from atomic stations because we have the God-given assets of coal. [More…]

• If one wants to take at face value the remarks of the Opposition, one can only conclude that it regards the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as static as well as ineffective. [More…]

• The report also states that Mr Justice Fox said there was concern about the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to administer the safeguards satisfactorily. [More…]

• It has accepted the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act to control uranium mining in the Alligator River area and the Kakadu national park area. [More…]

• The Ranger report argued very strongly against using the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, both for environmental reasons and reasons associated with civil liberties. [More…]

• The operation of the Atomic Energy Act allows no other consideration. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act also overrides the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]

• But because authority has been granted to Ranger under the Atomic Energy Act the ‘mining interest’ provisions of the Land Rights Act do not apply. [More…]

• He brought in the red herring of the Australian Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• In respect of how many of those facilities in each country has a subsidiary agreement been made providing for the attachment of safeguards to those facilities under the Safeguards Agreement between Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the European Atomic Energy Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]

• European Communities Information Research and Development pamphlet 9/77 states that in 1976 there were the following numbers of nuclear installations in the civil nuclear industries of the nine member States of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM): 35 preparation and frabrication plants 71 power reactors 117 research reactors 13 reprocessing plants 211 research centres, laboratories, stores, enrichment plants and others. [More…]

• European Atomic Energy Community in relation to the nuclear industries in the nine member States. [More…]

• The subsidiary arrangements, including facility attachments, to be concluded under the Safeguards Agreement, define the technical procedures for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to implement its safeguards on a permanent basis in the seven non-nuclear-weapon States of the European Atomic Energy Community. [More…]

• Pending finalisation of the subsidiary arrangements, the IAEA is applying safeguards to nuclear facilities in the seven non-nuclear-weapon States of the European Atomic Energy Community by means of ad hoc safeguards inspections under the terms of the Safeguards Agreement [More…]

• As I said on 22 July, the Government wants to see early resolution of the subsidiary arrangements between the European Atomic Energy Community authorities, the national Governments of the seven non-nuclear-weapon States that are members of the Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Just last month two scientists from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Dr Feates and Dr Keen, wrote: ‘Ten years of research will be needed before we have enough information on any specific site to propose a pilot-scale trial of a disposal system’. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission spent over $19m on research in 1976-77. [More…]

• These include, of course, the application of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards of indefinite duration and cover all peaceful nuclear activities in nonnuclear weapon states, the prohibition of nuclear explosive uses, the maintenance of adequate physical security, and United States consent to re-transfer, et cetera. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has provided the following information: [More…]

• the incurring of expenditure, by, or on behalf of, the Australian Government and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and other authorities of Australia for and in relation to the development by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in association with Ranger Uranium Mines Proprietary Ltd of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory of Australia. [More…]

• Honourable members will be pleased to know that under the direction of Mr Robert Fry, who has been seconded from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to undertake preliminary functions of the proposed Supervising Scientist, steps have already been taken to establish monitoring of base-line environmental conditions in the region. [More…]

• The main purpose of this Bill is to amend the Atomic Energy Act 1953 as part of a package of legislation giving effect to the Government’s decision on the further development of Australia’s uranium resources. [More…]

• Amendments to the Act contained in this Bill will enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to participate on behalf of the Commonwealth in a joint venture with Peko-EZ. [More…]

• This is in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding, which used the Atomic Energy Act as its legislative basis. [More…]

• The opportunity is also being taken to strengthen and clarify the legislative basis for the application of nuclear safeguards within Australia in accordance with the agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Australia in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [More…]

• As a consequence, the present Government did not accept the recommendation of the Ranger Inquiry that the Atomic Energy Act not be used for the grant of authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]

• The Ranger Inquiry recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act on the grounds that this legislation was enacted largely with defence considerations in mind. [More…]

• After reviewing this matter, the Government nevertheless considered that the Atomic Energy Act could provide an appropriate basis for mining operations at Ranger, in accordance with the agreements concluded between the companies and the Whitlam Government in 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) indicated in his statement of 25 August 1977 that in reaching this decision the Government had regard to the view of the Ranger Inquiry that its concern over the appropriateness of the Atomic Energy Act would have less force if the Uranium Advisory Council recommendation of the Inquiry were adopted. [More…]

• Accordingly, we are proposing amendments to sections 17 and 34 of the Atomic Energy Act which will substantially broaden the basis of the Act and clearly authorise the participation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the Ranger project for the purpose of ensuring the supply of uranium. [More…]

• Not only will the amendments we are proposing provide a clear legal basis on which the Ranger project can be authorised to proceed, but they will also remove the main obstacle that the Ranger Inquiry saw in proceeding with the Ranger project under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• By ratifying this most important international instrument, Australia undertook, amongst other things, not to manufacture or acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and to accept safeguards applied by the International Atomic Energy Agency covering all nuclear material in all peaceful nuclear activities within Australia, under our jurisdiction or carried out anywhere under our control. [More…]

• The legislative base for the control of nuclear materials in Australia is Part III of the Atomic Energy Act 1953, headed ‘Control of Materials’. [More…]

• The national system of accounting for and control of materials was, therefore, established under the Minister responsible for the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The body involved, the Australian Safeguards Office, answers directly to the Minister through the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• At present, all nuclear material which is required to be inspected by the IAEA is located within the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It is necessary, however, for regulations to be in place to ensure this compliance as the inventory of material for which safeguards are required increases and spreads beyond the Atomic Energy Commission and government ownership. [More…]

• Section 34 of the Atomic Energy Act at present provides that the powers conferred in relation to the control of materials shall be exercised only: [More…]

• Clauses 4, 6 and 7 of the Bill update provisions of the principal Act relating to staff and officials of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to bring them into line with current drafting practice. [More…]

• In addition, section 31 (2) (b) of the principal Act is to be amended to meet the request of the Auditor-General that he no longer be required to report on the ‘state of affairs’ of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Finally, it is proposed that section 61 of the Atomic Energy Act be deleted as it is no longer required in view of recent amendments to the Judiciary Act. [More…]

• We have established a national system of accounting for and controlling nuclear material as required by the Non-Proliferation Treaty and by our safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• The domestic legislative base for giving effect to these obligations has been the Atomic Energy Act, and will continue to be that Act as amended. [More…]

• Indeed, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in its latest annual report says that the demand for uranium will be down by 36 per cent. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has forecast a drop of 36 per cent in world demand for Australian uranium because of delays and revisions to nuclear power programs. [More…]

• The existing contract agreed to by the previous Labor Government and conservative governments prior to 1972 accounts for about 11,700 short tons of uranium, of which only approximately 2,500 tons cannot be met by the Mary Kathleen mine or by the Atomic Energy Commission’s stockpiles. [More…]

• We have also supported the International Atomic Energy Agency proposal for a convention requiring States to take strong action against any crime including terrorist activity, involving nuclear materials or facilities. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Act 1 953 [More…]

• Iran has a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency covering all of its nuclear activities. [More…]

• That organisation is the successor to the United States Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It is said that we will sell only to countries which have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which have accepted the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards procedures and with whom we have reached a bilateral agreement and that the present nuclear nations will be required not to use Australian uranium to manufacture weapons. [More…]

• The third point I make is this: A lot has been said tonight about why the Atomic Energy Act is being used. [More…]

• I would like to make it clear again for the record that the Australian Safeguards Office works absolutely independently of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• It is true that the Office reports to the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, but to me through the Chairman. [More…]

• The work being done now internationally by the Australian Safeguards Office through the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on the application of safeguards is effective. [More…]

• The Opposition put the case that in 1974 it tried under the Atomic Energy Act to introduce regulations that were argued and defeated in the Senate, and that somehow that is inconsistent with the Government’s decision now to use the Atomic Energy Act to let the Ranger operation proceed. [More…]

• Secondly, the Bill will allow for proper safeguards, and the safeguards we have entered into internationally with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and any bilateral agreements we may have, to be implemented in Australia. [More…]

• -The introduction of the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 demonstrates in the clearest possible way that the Government has failed to take seriously the criticisms of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry of the use of the Atomic Energy Act as a vehicle for the commercial development of uranium. [More…]

• The Government has failed to separate the contradictory roles assigned to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission with respect to nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• It has failed to remove the repressive intimidatory security measures of the Atomic Energy Act which will now be applicable also to commercial uranium mining. [More…]

• In fact, in February of this year the Chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote: the International Atomic Energy Agency Special Safeguards Implementation Report indicated that a country’s agreement to subject its nuclear activities to IAEA safeguards does not necessarily assure that adequate material control and accounting measures are applied in all cases. [More…]

• We oppose it not only because it would provide a right to mine, but also because the Atomic Energy Act is a totally inappropriate Act to control commercial or civil uranium mining. [More…]

• We oppose it because the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is an inappropriate body to be responsible for civil uranium development. [More…]

• That the Atomic Energy Act 1 953 not be used for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]

• having reviewed this matter, the Government neverthess considered that the Atomic Energy Act provides an appropriate basis for mining operations at Ranger. [More…]

• That report is now public, and it demonstrates that the Atomic Energy Act is an unacceptable basis for uranium mining. [More…]

• It was designed to enable the Australian Government, via the Atomic Energy Commission, to control the exploitation of uranium in the Territories and throughout the Commonwealth for defence purposes. [More…]

• In proposed new section 38 of Part HI of the Atomic Energy Act regulations can be used to control the mining, treatment, use and disposal of uranium under licences issued by the Minister. [More…]

• This is a power additional to the general power of the Minister to direct the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake and supervise operations involving uranium. [More…]

• The harsh, repressive measures of the Atomic Energy Act- measures which the Bill before the House does not seek to eliminate- are completely unjustified to cover commercial uranium mining. [More…]

• Why does the present Government want to continue to use the Atomic Energy Act? [More…]

• The only reason the Atomic Energy Act was proposed by the Labor Government to apply to the possible Ranger project was that the preferred alternative, the more appropriate alternative, the Petroleum and Minerals Authority, was invalidated by the High Court. [More…]

• Not only was the Labor Government’s attempt to establish the Petroleum and Minerals Authority sabotaged by what is now the Government, but in 1974 when, as a substitute for the PMA, the then Minister for Minerals and Energy sought to use regulations made under section 38 ( 1 ) of the Atomic Energy Act to licence uranium mining, these regulations were disallowed by the Senate Opposition majority. [More…]

• Again, the same people who now occupy the Government benches in the Senate and who will be expected to support this Bill, in 1974 condemned and vetoed the use of provisions of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• Clause 10 of the Bill would amend section 38 of the Atomic Energy Act to extend and strengthen the Minister’s power to regulate and control the rnining, processing, possession, transportation, use and disposal of uranium and related and associated minerals or other substances. [More…]

• The fact is that the Senate left the Minister no alternative to the use of the Atomic Energy Commission acting under the direction of the Minister as provided under section 19 to control the Ranger project. [More…]

• The effect was that because the Atomic Energy Commission became the agent of the Government in the Ranger venture, the full security provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, including powers under the approved Defence Projects Protection Act, came to apply to any exploitation of Ranger uranium. [More…]

• The objections of the Fox Inquiry to the use of the Atomic Energy Act arose from three considerations. [More…]

• Thirdly, there could be a real or apparent conflict of interest between the entrepreneurial role of the Atomic Energy Commission and its responsibilities under the Act to supervise local environmental protection measures. [More…]

• At the moment, however, there are only shaky grounds to suggest that an independent Council will be able to offset the Atomic Energy Act’s potential for preventing adequate public scrutiny of the environmental standards at Ranger. [More…]

• Indeed the appointment of an Atomic Energy Commission scientist to set up the office of supervising scientist responsible for environmental research and monitoring hardly inspires confidence in the Government’s sensitivity to the need for unimpeachable information and judgments on environmental controls. [More…]

• The body this Government proposes to be responsible for these obligations, the Australian Safeguards Office, will report through the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The same body, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission would be regulating and commercially promoting uranium mining. [More…]

• The most objectionable aspect of the use of the Atomic Energy Act as a basis for the Government’s uranium mining proposals is the frightening powers the Act gives the Government by virtue of its security provisions. [More…]

• Should unions opposed to the establishment of a mine at Ranger not be deterred by the possible use of these powers, the Atomic Energy Act itself allows that a person authorised by the Minister may enter a mine site, as stated in section 41, ‘with such workmen and other persons as he thinks fit. ‘ [More…]

• Finally, provisions of the Atomic Energy Act could be invoked against workers taking part in normal industrial disputes over wages, working conditions and so on. [More…]

• Both the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act could be used in a heavy-handed attempt by the Government to repress the opposition to uranium mining and to stifle public discussion of the hazards, dangers and unresolved problems of the nuclear industry. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act as it now stands and as it would be amended by the Bill before the House is entirely irrelevant to the mining of uranium in Australia at this time. [More…]

• Further, the only reason the Austraiian Atomic Energy Commission is involved in the proposed Ranger venture is that the Senate under Liberal-Country Party control in 1974 rejected the more satisfactory direct regulation of uranium development by the Minister. [More…]

• In 1974, the Atomic Energy Act and Atomic Energy Commission were at best a third choice. [More…]

• Just last week on 24 April, speaking on Australian Broadcasting Commission radio, Professor Charles Kerr described the Ranger inquiry’s attitude to the Atomic Energy Act as follows: [More…]

• The Government is under no obligation to pursue the use of the Atomic Energy Act, even if it does choose to continue with the 1975 Memorandum of Understanding. [More…]

• It chooses to use the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining in the civil sense. [More…]

• The Government has failed, in the Atomic Energy Act Amendment Bill, to propose any amendments to the Act which could even at the most generous estimate eliminate the worst excesses of the security provisions of the Act. [More…]

• It has failed to take the opportunity available to review the Act thoroughly, to evaluate the terms under which the Atomic Energy Commission undertakes its research and commercial activities. [More…]

• These are serious matters that the present Government has chosen not to give attention to in proposing amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• Firstly, it substantially widens the functions of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• We regard the Atomic Energy Commission as an inappropriate body to be responsible for uranium development. [More…]

• We regard the Atomic Energy Act as an inappropriate Act to control the civilian use of uranium. [More…]

• The next thing we will have is the spokesman for the Opposition seeking to deny that under the agreement the Atomic Energy Commission is vitally involved. [More…]

• Under that Memorandum of Understanding the Labor Government involved the Atomic Energy Commission to the extent of 7214 per cent, Peko 13% per cent and EZ 13% per cent of the total investment. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said that he is not altogether happy with the way in which we are going ahead with this matter; we do not really agree with that Memorandum of Understanding, with the way it was set up or with the involvement of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• This Bill which amends the Atomic Energy Act is a vital part of that package. [More…]

• I feel that if we were to vary in any substantial way the proposals contained in the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, we would be moving away from those safeguards. [More…]

• It is interesting to note the way in which Australia, under the safeguards provisions, will seek and ensure the implementation of the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency for the control of uranium and the by-products. [More…]

• I wish to bring to the attention of the House the closing remarks made by Sigvard Eklund, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at the International Conference on Nuclear Power and its Dual Cycle. [More…]

• The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, an international body contributed to by those people who seek to stretch their capacity for the use of energy, is saying that he feels that he has not been successful in explaining to the world some of the implications and the importance of alternative energy forms. [More…]

• A major conversion to atomic power has long been the principle of Comecon energy policy which will not be hampered by ecology minded minority pressure groups. [More…]

• The setting up of the Uranium Advisory Council, the provisions that will come forward for environmental protection, the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, the amendments to the National Parks and Wildlife Act, the amendments to the Northern [More…]

• We reject as specious the Government’s justifications for its policy, and we condemn as ill-considered and dangerous its decision to control and regulate uranium mining with an amended Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The optimistic nuclear estimates of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, produced in its latest annual report, are one-sixth down on the estimates it made for the Ranger inquiry, only a year earlier. [More…]

• I begin by reminding the House that the Ranger inquiry recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act to regulate and control the Ranger operation. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Government plans not only to continue with the Austraiian Atomic Energy Commission as a partner in the Ranger venture, but also to strengthen the role of the Commission in the development and administration of nuclear safeguards. [More…]

• It will be he who receives the reports of the Safeguards Office, via the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The two functions were separated in the United States three years ago, with the division of the United States Atomic Energy Commission into the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Energy Research and Development Administration. [More…]

• I have already pointed out, in general terms, that the Atomic Energy Act should not be used for a commercial project. [More…]

• But this Government has retained the terms of the Memorandum, including specifically the quite unsuitable control provisions of the Atomic Energy Act; and it has widened the areas in which regulations involving security can be made. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, I can hardly believe that the amendments proposed in this Bill to sections 34 and 38 of the Atomic Energy Act come from the same people who in opposition, only four years ago, sought to destroy the Whitlam Government’s initiatives which would have enabled Commonwealth control over mineral developments. [More…]

• To do this at the moment essentially requires an atomic bomb explosion in order to produce enough temperature and pressure. [More…]

• I join with my colleagues in opposing at all stages this obnoxious Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]

• If that fails it will stand ready with the full repressive force of the police state tactics enshrined in the Atomic Energy Act, which the Bill now before the House seeks to amend, to suppress openly opposition to the uranium go-ahead. [More…]

• It is clear to President Marcos, to his Atomic Energy Commission and to the Westinghouse Corporation that they should not count on Australian uranium to fuel their reactors or to fuel their other ambitions over the 30-year life of a nuclear power facility. [More…]

• The decision of the Fraser Government to use the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining at Ranger, against the strong recommendations of the Fox inquiry, is a very ominous decision. [More…]

• If honourable members have not already read italthough anybody who reads Hansard or the newspapers should be aware of its contents- I refer them to pages 248 to 252 of the second Fox report The amendments to the Atomic Energy Act now before the House compound the concern. [More…]

• The Government continues to say that it is using the Atomic Energy Act only because the Labor Government used it in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in October 1974. [More…]

• Clearly, if the Ranger inquiry says that it is inappropriate and even dangerous for a government to invoke the Atomic Energy Act to cover a commercial venture, that Act should not be used. [More…]

• Labor’s reference to the Atomic Energy Act in the 1974 Memorandum is irrelevant in the present circumstances, just as are so many of the twisted arguments that this Government uses to cover its pro-uranium policy. [More…]

• Why did the Fraser Government decide to use the Atomic Energy Act? [More…]

• As honourable members well know uranium was being mined at Rum Jungle under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and at that time the Atomic Energy Commission was exporting uranium both to Britain and the United States to be used in the production of atomic weapons. [More…]

• Clearly the Government recognises that this repressive Atomic Energy Act will be extremely useful if it fails to neutralise public opposition in general and trade union opposition in particular. [More…]

• By conducting uranium mining under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to workers and unions associated with the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]

• The use of the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining makes an outlaw of any worker, union or Australian citizen who does not fully comply with the uranium mining and export policies of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• One of the many repressive aspects of the Atomic Energy Act is that ‘all works carried out by or on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission’ including uranium mining at Ranger- are viewed ‘as if those works were approved defence projects within the meaning of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act.’ [More…]

• This aspect of the Atomic Energy Act is all- embracing. [More…]

• The Government now is proposing, as we are opposing, provisions that will consolidate the extent of the power of the Government under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• It wants to make a mockery of the regulations of the uranium industry by putting the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in charge of the regulation of uranium mining while at the same time it is clearly very active in promoting things nuclear. [More…]

• Now we are participating in a fourth debate on uranium this time on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill that we are debating is to amend the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]

• Amendments to the Act contained in the Bill, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding which used the Atomic Energy Act as its legislative basis, will enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission on behalf of the Commonwealth to participate in a joint venture with Peko EZ. [More…]

• Whether we like it or not, we are in the atomic age. [More…]

• I am amazed at the violent opposition from the members of the Opposition in this House, particularly in view of the support given by the Labour Government in Great Britain to the extension of atomic energy for power purposes. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, whether we like it or not we are living in an atomic age. [More…]

• Where atomic waste is stored throughout the world it is monitored by a worldwide body. [More…]

• I have had people tell me that 30 or 40 Indians in some part of the United States of America developed cancer as the result of an atomic reactor being sited nearby. [More…]

• We are in the atomic age; let us act like responsible people. [More…]

• The Opposition opposes the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill for the simple reason that it is an inappropriate measure in many aspects, particularly from the legal point of view. [More…]

• We strongly recommend against the use of the Atomic Energy Act for the grant of authority to mine uranium. [More…]

• The Government has noted that Mr Justice Fox was critical of the proposal in 1975 to use the Atomic Energy Act as the appropriate base for any activity. [More…]

• This is because the Atomic Energy Act- the Act which this Bill seeks to amend- is based on the defence power. [More…]

• The Government’s response is to extend the constitutional base of the Atomic Energy Act to trade and commerce and to external affairs. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act is 25 years old. [More…]

• The application of science and technology, including atomic energy, could bring to Australia prosperity and fruitfulness such as few nations have experienced. [More…]

• The adoption of the Atomic Energy Act by Australia coincided with a significant shift in international approaches to the control of nuclear industry and the avoidance of nuclear proliferation. [More…]

• This proposal was not adopted and instead the United States sought to achieve control by monopoly of nuclear secrets, by terminating all nuclear co-operation with other countries and by government monopoly of domestic atomic energy activities. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency was established and a policy of international co-operation adopted so that by cooperation, rather than by monopoly, nuclear industry could be controlled. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission was established in this environment. [More…]

• We find them together in the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The United States Atomic Energy Commission had the kind of variety of powers we find now so badly proposed by the Australian Government. [More…]

• No longer does one branch of the Atomic Energy Agency approve the safety of projects of another branch. [More…]

• It is totally undesirable for any amendment of the Atomic Energy Act to be brought in here with the defence power only remaining as its basis, just as it is inappropriate for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to remain its own watchdog. [More…]

• When the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was established it was given responsibility for all fields of nuclear energy and for cooperation with the States in the discovery and mining of uranium ores. [More…]

• Howard Beale, in a speech in 1953, said that the Atomic Energy Commission would concern itself with ‘uranium and atomic energy for industrial as well as defence purposes’. [More…]

• Australia will make increasing use of atomic power in the years ahead and thetime for this nation to enter the atomic age has now arrived. [More…]

• I find atomic energy one of the most interesting aspects of my portfolio, despite my complete ignorance of the technology. [More…]

• My purpose in setting this out is to indicate clearly that the Atomic Energy Commission has a history of blind-alley research and dedication to nuclear energy options without regard for reality. [More…]

• The AAEC was established, and the Atomic Energy Act drafted at a time when it was thought that we were entering the age of the atom. [More…]

• It would be more appropriate to extract certain functions from the Atomic Energy Act and to establish two new bodies. [More…]

• Sitting suspended from 6 to 8 p.m. Mr LIONEL BO WEN -Before the sitting was suspended, I was submitting that the Atomic Energy Act was the wrong Act to be used in the present circumstances, and again I remind the [More…]

• I made the point that we need new bodies, and I mentioned a uranium development authority and said that its functions ought to include those in Section 17(1 )(A) to (D) in the present Atomic Energy Act, with the deletion of any reference to encouragement. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the United States and the proposed Atomic Energy Safety Commission in Japan reflect some of the considerations to be taken into account- at present Japan is in the process of splitting the functions into two on the basis of being able to get the safeguards required- bearing in mind the large differences between the activities in those countries and in Australia requiring regulation. [More…]

• Dealing with research and production, the remaining function of the current Atomic Energy Commission- that is, research and production of isotope material- could be put to further study in the context of an overall energy research policy and arrangements could be made for the supply of isotopes. [More…]

• I offer these thoughts to demonstrate the directions in which there could be a rational up-dating of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• What we have here is a broadening of the old Atomic Energy Act, a piece of Menzies Cold War legislation being updated. [More…]

• I rise tonight in support of the Government and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978, and refer to the beginning of the second reading speech in which the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) stated: [More…]

• The main purpose of this Bill is to amend the Atomic Energy Act 1953 as part of a package of legislation giving effect to the Government’s decision on the further development of Australia’s uranium resources. [More…]

• Amendments to the Act contained in this Bill will enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to participate on behalf of the Commonwealth in a joint venture with Peko-EZ. [More…]

• This is in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding, which used the Atomic Energy Act as its legislative basis. [More…]

• That is the kind of man we will have to cope with in the future, not someone armed with an atomic bomb. [More…]

• The ANU asked for only $4m, yet we can give tens of millions to atomic research at Lucas Heights which, as previous Opposition speakers have indicated, in many cases is outdated. [More…]

• The Government cannot expect that the Atomic Energy Act of a former generation- when atomic potential was seen outstandingly as a feature of the Cold War- should be equally relevant to the energy crisis of 1978. [More…]

• Surely today there are some glimmerings of hope of an alternative to World War III, which did not seem terribly likely at the time of the formulation of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) supplies technetium-99m pertechnatate in the ready-to-use form as well as in the form of devices called generators, from which it can be obtained by users. [More…]

• -The view of the Australian Labor Party on uranium mining is well known and has been covered fully by previous speakers in the debate concerning the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• It does not concern itself with nuclear safeguards, which should be governed by our Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and by the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• In previous correspondence the South Australian Government has pointed out a number of areas particularly in the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• It is of little wonder that the State governments are denouncing this package of legislation, particularly the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]

• While the Atomic Energy Act grabs overall power over this unfortunate area of uranium mining - [More…]

• If honourable members referred to the debate that took place last night on the Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act, they would recognise that the Opposition failed to see that part of the obligations placed on the Australian Government are within the ambit of international controls of these commodities. [More…]

• But, for example, within New South Wales we have a stockpile of yellowcake at the Lucas Heights establishment which is operated by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• That is very depressing because the Soviet Union is one of the largest producers of uranium and one of the largest manufacturers of atomic energy plants. [More…]

• If we look at what happened last evening to the Atomic Energy Commission Bill we see that no State rights are left under that legislation- the Commonwealth has the power to go in and mine. [More…]

• Let us make this point: In the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which was passed last evening and gave the Commonwealth absolute powers to control uranium mining irrrespective of any State legislation, we stressed again the importance of civil liberties. [More…]

• That would be a major reason why the Atomic Energy Act was used as the Government’s first line of attack. [More…]

• Certainly there are grounds for having more than ordinary secrecy in legislation relating to atomic energy passed in the shadow of a nuclear war or even a cold war. [More…]

• In fact, it would take an atomic explosion or a major earthquake to cause leakage and both of these would break the dam wall itself thus releasing all the water anyway. [More…]

• -I must say at the outset of what will have to be a succinct answer to a series of questions dealing with an intricate matter that we do not start from the assumption that countries will seek to breach their important treaty obligations to us or to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or under the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the United States Government’s follow-up study on personnel who were involved in their past atomic testing programs. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Trade and Resources and I refer him to submissions by the Philippines Atomic Energy Commission to the International Atomic Energy Agency that since the Philippines is in a volcanic belt and has no stable salt rock formations, the long-term storage and disposal of its nuclear waste will depend on the establishment of an international burial site. [More…]

• Has the Press made a deep analysis of the Atomic Energy Act which is one of the most oppressive Acts with relation to civil liberties ever known in this country? [More…]

• Where have Australian journalists made a study of the safeguards of proliferation either on the so-called bilateral agreements between the Australian Government and other governments or on the so-called safeguards under the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]

• Have members of the Press Gallery made any real analyses of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the parts that they play in the whole matter of nuclear power? [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission conducted any studies into nuclear waste disposal or storage in Central Australia. [More…]

• What has been the annual intake on a trade category basis of apprentices at Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment since the project ‘s inception. [More…]

• Also, minutes and agenda papers, and an invitation to be represented at council meetings when items of interest are on the agenda, are sent to the following group of departments and agencies: Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Department of Finance, Department of Productivity, Department of Transport, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Telecommunications Commission, and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Has he determined that research and investigations, other than that associated with uranium and atomic energy, be carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission under the Atomic Energy Act; if so, ( a ) what are the research projects involved and (b) what proportion of the annual budget of the AAEC is allocated to these projects. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been carrying out limited research and investigations into the following non-nuclear fields with existing skills and facilities from the dates shown: [More…]

• What occurred was that someone was plucked out of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The supervising scientist was plucked out of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• All honourable members know that the role of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, since its inception, has been to encourage the development of uranium mining. [More…]

• The situation is that the Supervising Scientist was an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• A strong body of evidence demonstrates a widespread lack of confidence in the Atomic Energy Commission as the final arbiter of standards for the proposed mining operations, and as monitor of them. [More…]

• In my view, the Minister is perfectly correct: It has nothing to do with the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• -The whole point that I am trying to make is that the Supervising Scientist concerned was an employee of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• That is a reference to the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) and the Australian Radiation Laboratory (ARL) being competent authorities, consult to determine the type of depository and its site. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Authority. [More…]

• a ) Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• b ) Group within the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety within the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Control Board. [More…]

• In the United States of America both functions were formerly the responsibility of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Secondly, the International Atomic Energy Agency has developed a progressively more comprehensive system of safeguards based on the safeguards obligations attaching to the NPT. [More…]

• One can imagine the situation of somebody going to the United States or to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and saying that there will now be a universal approach on nuclear codes. [More…]

• Firstly, there is the assault upon civil liberties, and secondly, we are utterly and completely opposed to uranium mining at this stage because there is no known way to dispose of nuclear waste, and because the safeguards- such as the international atomic energy agency safeguards that the Government is depending upon, and also bilateral agreements and signatories to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty- are just not sufficient to guarantee that Australian uranium will not be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the submissions made by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and by the mining interests to the Fox Commission as to what they regarded as proper safeguards were rejected by the Commission. [More…]

• (i) Assessment of possible effects of occupation on health of staff at Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment. [More…]

• Issue of progress report be made by the School of Public Health and the Specialist Panel to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Labor Council not later than 1st September 1975. [More…]

• I can say now, however, that Mary Kathleen Uranium Limited and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission will be permitted to export uranium, the latter from the Ranger deposit. [More…]

• I asked in this House on Monday and Tuesday whether, when the Government cannot sell its uranium overseas with its so-called stringent safeguards, it will cave in to countries like Iran, the Philippines and the European Atomic Energy Community, which will not stand by and lose their sovereignty in a bilateral agreement to a small country like Australia. [More…]

• Sir John Hill, the Chairman of the British Atomic Energy Agency, visited me this week to bring me up to date with activities in Britain relating to the nuclear fuel cycle but principally to find out what progress has been made in Australia with the development of uranium and the prospects of future exports of uranium. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act 1953 or any other Act authorising the mining for minerals does not apply in relation to land that is Aboriginal land so as to authorise the entry or remaining of a person on the land or the doing of any act by a person on the land unless- [More…]

• that act is done in the course of, or in connexion with, mining operations authorised by a law of the Northern Territory or by the Atomic Energy Act 1 953 or any other Act authorising mining for minerals and the Minister has authorised, in writing, the doing of that act. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act and its application to this question of land rights in the Northern Territory has been debated earlier this year. [More…]

• 174 (Hansard, 2 June 1977, page 2S44); if so, (a) when will this document become available to the Parliament and (b) will the document be available for distribution to employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and to residents living within a prescribed distance from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• It relates essentially to the military reprocessing and enrichment plants of the nuclear weapons states which, under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, are not required to be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• Safeguards applied by the Commission of the European Communities in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VII of the Treaty Establishing the European Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The permanent membership of the task force on nuclear non-proliferation and safeguards comprises officers of the Depanments of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Trade and Resources, and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) What International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards will apply to future shipments of Australian yellowcake to the Philippines. [More…]

• This view is also held by the International Atomic Energy Agency which states that ‘the technology for handling them (i.e. [More…]

• I suggest that if the honourable member wishes to discuss scientific evidence in detail he communicate directly with the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Details of the status of technology and management of high level waste arising from the spent nuclear fuel are contained in Atomic Energy in Australia, Vol. [More…]

• 1 ) How many officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission held the rank of Chief of Division. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article in the Canberra Times of 30 May 1978 relating to investment in uranium exploration and production in some 54 foreign countries including Australia, by the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation. [More…]

• the application of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, which provide an international check against diversion of nuclear material; [More…]

• In technical terms, this provision derives from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s document INFCIRC/254, which in turn generalises INFCIRC/225 Rev. [More…]

• The parties are no longer obliged to supply each other with copies of reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency on its verification activities but only the overall conclusions of the most recent report by the IAEA. [More…]

• In this year of fiscal stringency the Government can find $20m to start the Ranger uranium mine and it is sending the Australian Atomic Energy Commission off onto the private capital market to borrow another $28m. [More…]

• Our Government, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, will be keeping an eye on progress in this field. [More…]

• We must also remember that another $ 15m or so will be spent by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and other Commonwealth authorities on energy research and development. [More…]

• Under the terms of the underwriting agreement dated 4 October 1974, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission acquired 30,764,142 shares in MKU. [More…]

• in June and August 1977 the Commonwealth reimbursed MKU for interest payable to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority totalling $269,64 1 ; [More…]

• and (2) Since my statement to Parliament of 1 June 1978 the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has had discussions with utilities in the United Kingdom, Finland, Japan and the United States. [More…]

• What funds from (a) the Australian Government or allied sources and (b) other sources have been allocated in Australia specifically to (i) this project and (ii) atomic (A) fission and (B) fusion research in case of development of nuclear power generation in Australia. [More…]

• See (5) below, (ii) For information on Commonwealth support for nuclear research see page 56 of the Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission 1976-77. [More…]

• The Minister also proposed to the New South Wales Minister for Health that officers of the New South Wales Health Commission consult with officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission with a view to bringing forward agreed recommendations jointly to both Governments on a suitable site and method of disposal of the contaminated material from Hunters Hill. [More…]

• I desire to deal with subdivision 4.07 of the Appropriation Bill, the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• It is not good enough for those of us who are concerned about the fact that there are too many nuclear weapons in the world simply to accept without argument that, as a nation producing uranium, we can simply rely upon the operations of the International Atomic Energy Agency and upon treaties to limit the use of Australian uranium in the production of nuclear weapons. [More…]

• The International Atomic Energy Agency is responsible for checking observance of the Nonproliferation Treaty. [More…]

• The essence of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s activities is bookkeeping. [More…]

• India, which in 1974 exploded its own atomic device, had accepted a safeguard Canadian reactor and then built its own plutonium reprocessing plant nearby. [More…]

• The fact is that the International Atomic Energy Agency has no authority to take action against any violations other than simply to announce them. [More…]

• 1 ) In relation to the authorisation given to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to commence a design cost study for a new isotope protection and research reactor to replace the HIFAR reactor at Lucas Heights, N.S.W., will he indicate (a) the terms of reference under which the design cost study is to proceed, (b) whether an environmental impact statement has been ordered and (c) if public hearings will be held before a decision is made on the construction of a new reactor. [More…]

• When this country acceded to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the first requirement which was cast upon the country was to enter into an agreement regarding safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• What are the arrangements which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has with New South Wales authorities concerning the appropriate measures for the protection of persons and property, including evacuation as a last resort, in the areas around the research establishment at Lucas Heights should it become necessary. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission: Objections to Funding from Taxation Revenue (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) Has at least one taxpayer written to the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation saying that as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission received more than $22m in the last financial year, its operation offers no prospect of any contribution to Australia’s energy requirements in the foreseeable future and moreover, its activities pose a grave threat, both directly and indirectly to human health and survival, he or she conscientiously objected to making any contribution to the Commission and was therefore withholding his or her share of its funding. [More…]

• 1 ) No record can be found in the Australian Taxation Office of a taxpayer having written and conscientiously objected to making any contribution to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment: Protection against Radiation (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights, NSW, follow the recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) in setting standards on radiation exposure for workers in the industry and the general public. [More…]

• The latter two were reported to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects’ Of Atomic Radiation. [More…]

• Have any recommendations been made to him by officers ofthe New South Wales Health Commission and the Austraiian Atomic Energy Commission on a suitable site and method of disposal of material from Hunters Hill, New South Wales, which is contaminated by radio-active tailings. [More…]

• Officers ofthe New South Wales Health Commission and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have met on a number of occasions, the latest being on 1 8 September. [More…]

• That body superseded the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee. [More…]

• There is no evidence, no logic and certainly no credible hypothesis to support an accusation, so dear to the imagination of the former Deputy Leader of the Oppositionthat is, the honourable member for Reid- that the British broke the moratorium on atomic explosions in the atmosphere in the period from 1958 to 1961. [More…]

• The first atomic explosion in Australia occurred 26 years ago last week, and the last occurred 21 years ago this week. [More…]

• There were subsequently some experiments on radioactive substances related to nuclear weapons technology but no further atomic explosions. [More…]

• I emphasise the words ‘no further atomic explosions’. [More…]

• I emphasise those words because the Melbourne Age newspaper, commenting editorially today, had some difficulty distinguishing between an atomic explosion qua atomic explosion and nuclear experimentation. [More…]

• Surveys of the Maralinga area were undertaken in 1967 and 1 972 by the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee. [More…]

• No atomic devices were exploded during the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing between 1958 and 1 96 1 , and no unexploded nuclear device was buried. ‘ [More…]

• Is it true that, during the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing between 1958 and 1961, Australia co-operated with the British in conducting secret atomic ‘Trigger’ tests at Maralinga and that waste and debris from these tests were buried at Maralinga? [More…]

• It relates to the Minister’s undertaking to provide the Deputy Leader of the Opposition with information about the contaminated debris buried at Maralinga in South Australia subsequent to the atomic tests there some 20 years ago. [More…]

• In 1968 the British Atomic Energy Weapons Research establishment made a report concerning material buried at Maralinga. [More…]

• Detailed requirements for the condition in which Maralinga was to be left when British activity closed down were laid down in 1967 by the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee set up by the Australian Government. [More…]

• I have explained that the British exploded 12 atomic devices in Australia, three at Monte Bello, seven at Maralinga, and two at Emu Field near Maralinga. [More…]

• The Maralinga and Emu areas were the subjects of a large scale clean-up operation conducted in 1967 to bring them to internationally acceptable standards set by the Australian Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee. [More…]

• In 1968 the Australian Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee informed the government of the day that it was satisfied that the area was radiologically safe, that permanent and unrestricted access could be made to all but a few small areas and that even they could be occupied on a short term basis without risk. [More…]

• The work involved specialist assistance from the Australian Radiation Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]

• Yet another of the matters which this Government has had under active consideration- and one which lay behind Cabinet’s recent deliberations- relates to Australia’s obligations under the agreement signed with the International Atomic Energy Agency consequent upon our accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]

• In applying itself to the task of selectively misreporting a leaked Cabinet document, one newspaper has also suggested that the document demonstrated that the Atomic Energy Commission could not handle the substance if it were exhumed. [More…]

• They want to see atomic weapons or nuclear proliferation because that is their particular bent. [More…]

• Was it in one way a breach of the agreement made by the super powers, including Britain, between 19S8 and 1961, that no atomic tests would be conducted? [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: this House censures the Government for its incompetence and failure to adopt responsible nuclear policies and its misleading and contradictory statements about British atomic weapons tests and forthwith calls upon the Government to appoint an independent committee of inquiry to report upon- [More…]

• Penney, of course, was head of the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. [More…]

• The strong inference was that these tests were subsequent to the atomic tests of 1957. [More…]

• Radioactive substances remaining after the low yield atomic tests at Maralinga from 1955to 1963 . [More…]

• In a letter to me on 3 February 1 977 the Minister for Defence made reassuring remarks about surveys of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee, but we know how reliable they were. [More…]

• The United States Government is now engaged in a study of the health of personnel previously involved in atomic tests. [More…]

• Atomic Tests: Radiation (Question No. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the United States Government’s follow-up study on personnel who were involved in their past atomic testing programs. [More…]

• -To make any sense at all of the convoluted logic of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) would require that I was a Nobel Prize winner in atomic physics. [More…]

• We have no massive industry here involved in plutonium or atomic physics. [More…]

• We are trying to demonstrate, and it has been effectively demonstrated ever since the early atomic testing commenced at Maralinga and later at Emu, that at all times, within the confines of known scientific knowledge of the time, all actions were taken to ensure that the necessary protective measures were introduced at those locations. [More…]

• When independent Australian surveys had confirmed that the site was radiologIcally safe, a Termination Agreement ending the arrangements for British use of the atomic weapons proving ground at Maralinga was signed in September 1 968. [More…]

• I trust that we are all aware of the problems associated with atomic waste. [More…]

• As far as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is concerned they are perfectly able to solve the problem of the disposal of nuclear waste on their own. [More…]

• Again, the Opposition has simply chosen to ignore the fact that the Australian Safeguards Office, which has already been established, is the body which in fact dictates how the Australian Government is to maintain standards acceptable to the Australian Atomic Energy Agency and other international bodies, to maintain standards in accordance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and other agreements. [More…]

• According to new criteria of the International Atomic Energy Agency- the IAEA- which the Whitlam Administration agreed to accept in 1974, the Government has been required to examine all records of previous nuclear experiments to see whether any contaminated material was buried in Australia in relation to which the new and very rigid criteria of the IAEA could perhaps apply. [More…]

• The British Government has stated that no atomic devices were exploded during the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing between 19S8 and 1961. [More…]

• It is not entirely beyond credibility that the British could have detonated an atomic bomb in the atmosphere at the [More…]

• They know what the mushroom cloud of an atomic test is all about. [More…]

• In 1968 the British Atomic Energy Weapons Research Establishment made a report concerning material buried at Maralinga. [More…]

• The Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty refers directly to the International Atomic Energy Agency with all of its requirements. [More…]

• Yet it suited him not to believe me when I pointed out in a letter written to him on 3 February 1977 what the United Kingdom Government had told me, namely, that no atomic explosion had occurred at Maralinga in those years. [More…]

• For example, the then Minister for Environment, Dr Cass, received a recommendation from the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council in, I think, 1974 that was designed to overturn an earlier recommendation of the Australian Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee in relation to handing land back to South Australia. [More…]

• But at the same time I would have thought that, having in mind the fact that the recommendation of AIRAC was seeking to overturn the suggestion or recommendation of the Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee, the nature of the recommendations would have caused him to ask questions. [More…]

• I would have thought that in those circumstances a Minister would have asked: ‘Why is AIRAC making a recommendation which overturns the suggestion or the view of the Australian Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee?’ [More…]

• Does he not agree that these two plants would give Australia much better control over her own uranium supplies exported throughout the world, keep Australia in the forefront of atomic science for energy and medical needs, and also demonstrate to the world our deep concern about the disposal of our own nuclear waste? [More…]

• Did the Commonwealth grant funds to MKU equivalent to the interest payments made by MKU to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority for uranium borrowed in 1976; if so, what was the total amount of these payments. [More…]

• The Government’s nuclear safeguards policy only allows the export of uranium to nuclear weapon states which give Australia an undertaking that nuclear material we supply for peaceful purposes will not be diverted to military or explosive purposes and that such material will be covered by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• As explained by the Prime Minister on 24 May 1977, there will be no uranium exports under new contracts to any country unless and until there is a bilateral agreement in force which provides that nuclear material supplied by Australia for peaceful purposes or nuclear material derived from its use will not be diverted to military or explosive purposes and that International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards will apply to verify compliance with this undertaking. [More…]

• The participating states have jointly informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of their intention to act in accordance with the principles contained in the Guidelines. [More…]

• The conditions are set out in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s publication INFCIRC/254 dated February 1978 available through the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• and (5) Information is not available on all such transfers, but on 1 1 January 1978 the major exporters of nuclear material, equipment and technology notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that they would act in accordance with the principles contained in the Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines. [More…]

• Under the division for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, for expenditure under the Atomic Energy Act, the appropriation for running expenses totals $22,534,000. [More…]

• This is almost $lm more than the figure appropriated last year and is to be expended upon research and development, upon keeping up with the rest of the world against the day when in Australia we have, as we must, atomic power stations. [More…]

• For the Ranger uranium project, the payment to Australian Atomic Energy Commission, or otherwise, of a sum of $20m is provided. [More…]

• The contribution of the Commonwealth, through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, will be 72.5 per cent of the capital expenditure involved. [More…]

• That will be financed by this Budget appropriation of $20m, and by borrowings on the part of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission of some $24m. [More…]

• Some further items that fit in the general run of expenses associated with the overall nuclear energy program include capital works for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission- again under the Atomic Energy Act- for which $1.25m, only $1 1 1,000 more than was appropriated last year, is to be provided. [More…]

• We cannot begin putting capital aside, but we can push atomic energy research and development and conservation. [More…]

• What health screening occurs at Lucas Heights, NSW, and other atomic energy projects in Australia. [More…]

• A full and detailed occupational health service is provided for all employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• For this reason, a major international study is being set up under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency to collect and collate world-wide data. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission applied to the New South Wales Water Board for permission to dispose of waste currently discharged into the Woronora River, through the Board’s sewer; if so, what conditions must the Commission comply with before permission is granted. [More…]

• It is very interesting to read the report of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission which came out last month. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and defence science and technology should certainly be subjected to the sort of inquiry which examined the CSIRO. [More…]

• I must start off by saying, of course, that my side of the chamber totally opposes the arming of the FI 1 ls with atomic weaponry and that we adhere to all that is said with respect to nuclear non-proliferation. [More…]

• Annexed to the agreement are the proposed authority to mine under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act and the determination of payments under section 63 sub-section (5) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]

• As honourable members will be aware, an inquiry under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 was established on 16 July 1975 to inquire into the development by the Atomic Energy Commission in association with Ranger uranium mines of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Ranger entered into by the previous Government, the deposit will be mined under the Atomic Energy Act and by the Commonwealth in partnership with Peko-EZ. [More…]

• I expect that these negotiations with the companies will be concluded at an early date when the authority to mine under the Atomic Energy Act will issue. [More…]

• This authority is given under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• By contrast, the Bureau of Meteorology will spend $37.6m and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission $22. [More…]

• On 25 August 1977 the Government announced its policy to develop the uranium ore deposits in the Ranger project area on the basis of the Memorandum of Understanding of October 1975, which provided for mining to be undertaken under the Atomic Energy Act by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Peko Mines Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd as joint venturers. [More…]

• In this regard honourable members will recall that in June this year the Atomic Energy Act was amended to authorise the participation of the Commission in the Ranger project for the purpose of ensuring the supply of uranium. [More…]

• The legally binding agreements to implement the Memorandum of Understanding are now being negotiated to establish the joint venture and thus enable an authority ‘ to mine to be issued under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Ranger joint venturers have pointed out that section 4 1 of the Atomic Energy Act, as it presently stands, does not provide them with adequate security of tenure. [More…]

• The Government, of course, also believes that the holders of an authority under the Atomic Energy Act should not be disadvantaged in respect of such an important matter as security of tenure in comparison with prospective competitors. [More…]

• Clause 5 will introduce two new sections into the Atomic Energy Act, namely, sections 4lA and 41b. [More…]

• -The Opposition sought to break the debate into two- a debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and a debate on the Ranger statement and the statement on the Kakadu National Park agreement and memoranda. [More…]

• I think it is discourteous of the Government not to have a separate debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which is separate and distinct from the other two matters. [More…]

• That is the main purpose of the legislation, and whilst one can understand that the Peko-EZ consortium is not prepared to make investments on the basis only of the memorandum of understanding or upon the whim and caprice of the incumbent Minister and that it seeks further security of tenure, it all points to the fact that the Atomic Energy Act is the wrong legislation for the Government to have used for the development of the Ranger project and the Northern Territory uranium province. [More…]

• The Ranger joint ventures have pointed out that section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act, as it presently stands, does not provide them with adequate security of tenure. [More…]

• Those are both admissions that the Atomic Energy Act is inappropriate for uranium mining, even given the Government’s policy of moving ahead with uranium mining. [More…]

• Essentially, the Atomic Energy Act is a defence-oriented research Act and, because of that, it contains security measures which are not appropriate for a commercial mining operation. [More…]

• As well as that, the Fox Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry was quite specific in its recommendations to the Government not to use the Atomic Energy Act for the purposes of the civil mining project. [More…]

• That has not been done, and we are trying now to amend the Atomic Energy Act- I think there have already been a couple of amendments to date and now this one has been brought forward- to make it a more suitable vehicle for the development of the Ranger project. [More…]

• The whole concept of using the Atomic Energy Act should have been scrapped and we should have left it alone as a research Act, an Act governing a research institution, and established a commercial mining Act so that at least the work force and the people involved with uranium mining were not subject to the kinds of penal provisions and draconian security measures incorporated in the present Atomic Energy Act [More…]

• Whilst the Minister is not on record as saying that Pancontinental Mining Ltd, Queensland Mines Ltd or Noranda Australia Ltd will be subject to the Atomic Energy Act, nevertheless, if what the Minister euphemistically calls his ‘sequence’ takes place and another rnining venture is given the right to mine under the Atomic Energy Act, what could happen is that not only would Ranger come under the provisions of this Act, but also Queensland Mines, Noranda and others could come under its provisions. [More…]

• So, whilst the Atomic Energy Act now remains only applicable to Ranger, it could be the vehicle for the development of the Northern Territory uranium province- and a very inadequate and inappropriate vehicle it is. [More…]

• Reasonable, commendable indeed as that is, nevertheless, in the broad, the use of the Atomic Energy Act is inappropriate for this kind of mining operation. [More…]

• The use of the Atomic Energy Act was a fall-back position. [More…]

• Nevertheless, that was the kind of atmosphere which the Parliament was in and it is now quite trite for the Minister to say that, because Labor used the Atomic Energy Act, we have to continue with it. [More…]

• The Minister ought to wake up to himself, get a decent piece of legislation and forget the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Opposition is opposed to the use of the Atomic Energy Act to implement that policy, as was recommended by the Fox Commission. [More…]

• However, I find it curious that the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) should have indicated that the Labor Party intends to oppose the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that the Labor Party, in opposing an agreement that it signed itself with Peko- Wallsend Ltd, in fact will be opposing the use of the Atomic Energy Act which it imposed upon the parties to that agreement and under which the agreement was signed. [More…]

• Further to the point of whether such mining regulations should be applied under the Atomic Energy Act, I can do no better than quote from the statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on uranium. [More…]

• As a result of the Labor Party’s decision to use the Atomic Energy Act, those undertakings have been honoured. [More…]

• I concede that many people who adopt an anti-uranium stance do so ibr honourable reasons, just as many people who take an anti-uranium stance do so for quite mischievous reasons which bring benefits to the providers of other energy sources and which, of course, assist the Russian bloc, which is a great user of atomic power, to the disadvantage of the Western bloc countries- the free nations of the world- which seek to use our uranium. [More…]

• I agree wholeheartedly with the proposition that there is a definite need to amend the Atomic Energy Act because, certainly, the tenure situation in respect of the ability of Peko- Wallsend Ltd to mine there was totally unsatisfactory. [More…]

• I submit- I agree with the honourable member for Blaxland on this point-that the Atomic Energy Act has not yet been effectively amended to provide that mining companies get a fair go. [More…]

• I point out that in proposed section 41C which appears at page S of the Atomic Energy Amendment (No. [More…]

• I hope that the use of the Atomic Energy Act will be limited to this situation. [More…]

• -At the outset I protest against a cognate debate involving the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• The latest amendment to the Atomic Energy Act reveals more clearly than ever before that the Government’s single-minded strategy to lock Australia into the international nuclear fuel cycle and to repress the opposition of any citizen who threatens that strategy. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) in his second reading speech was blatant in his admission that the Atomic Energy Act is totally inappropriate for the commencement of mining. [More…]

• That report clearly sets out the Ranger commissioners’ opposition to the use of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• The Government shows no sign of amending the repressive, Cold War provisions of Part IV of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• That is the reason for patching up the Atomic Energy Act to apply to mining at Ranger. [More…]

• We oppose this Bill because the Atomic Energy Act, as the Fox report pointed out, is totally inappropriate for this purpose. [More…]

• These amendments to the Atomic Energy Act do not prevent a Labor government from implementing Labor’s policy. [More…]

• The Government’s panic changes to the Atomic Energy Act are a response to the concern of the potential uranium investors. [More…]

• I will direct most of my remarks to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• As mentioned by the Minister in his second reading speech, the Government announced its policy on 25 August 1977 to develop uranium ore deposits in the Ranger project area on the basis of the memorandum of understanding of October 1975, which provided for mining to be undertaken under the Atomic Energy Act by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Peko Mines Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd as joint venturers. [More…]

• In June of this year the Atomic Energy Act was amended to authorise the participation of the Commission in the Ranger project for the purpose of ensuring the supply of uranium. [More…]

• The Government believes that the holders of an authority under the Atomic Energy Act should not be disadvantaged in respect of such an important matter as security of tenure in comparison with prospective competitors. [More…]

• I have mentioned before that we are in the atomic age- whether we like it or not and if we do not mine, mill and market our uranium we will be left far behind. [More…]

• The introduction of this Bill, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• The Minister suggested that an authority to mine issued under section 4 1 of the Atomic Energy Act failed to afford this security of tenure. [More…]

• On close examination of this legislation, it becomes clear that the present Government seeks to bind future governments to detailed authorities to mine uranium, issued under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act, regardless of any changes which take place in the nuclear industry. [More…]

• But it is irresponsible that regardless of the findings of scientific studies of the consequences of mining on the environment of the uranium province no stricter safety measures could be imposed under the Atomic Energy Act as amended by the Bill before the House. [More…]

• The Opposition has already recorded its view that the Atomic Energy Act is entirely inappropriate as a means of regulating and controlling commercial uranium mining operations. [More…]

• The most recent joint International Atomic Energy Agency-Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development working party Report entitled ‘Uranium Resources, Production and Demand’ revised downward its nuclear power growth forecasts by up to SO per cent for the year 2000. [More…]

• In February this year Georg Woite of the International Atomic Energy Agency described the situation as follows: [More…]

• -The fact that this Atomic Energy Amendment Bill is being opposed by the Opposition has already been highlighted by Opposition spokesmen but there are a number of points that I desire to make because I think it is time they were raised in this debate. [More…]

• That is the Atomic Energy Act- for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]

• still less that the local environmental controls be determined or supervised under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• It then goes on to crticise the general role of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Ranger joint venturers have pointed out that section 14 of the Atomic Energy Act, as it presently stands, does not provide them with adequate security of tenure. [More…]

• I now invite the Minister to put those arguments because, whatever the differences that exist between the Government and the Australian Labor Party on this issue- they are considerable- at least the differences between us and the differences that exist within Australian society might well start to be resolved if the Government could put its arguments in a forthright and honest manner and not within the framework of an exercise of major political duplicity which is enshrined in the Atomic Energy Act and the amendments to it which are contained in this Bill. [More…]

• The Opposition does not mind the Government allowing adequate time for debating all matters which are listed on the program, but in this case it listed the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• We make the objection that I have already made, namely, that it would have been easy for the Government to bring on for debate the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission ( AAEC) [More…]

• 1 ) What are the radioactive material and toxic chemicals buried in the area fenced off by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in 1959, approximately 1 kilometre northwest of the Commission’s research establishment, Lucas Heights, NSW (question No. [More…]

• 1 ) In connection with the nuclear safeguards agreement between Australia and the Philippines signed on 8 August 1978, will Australian yellowcake attract full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards at the time of shipment. [More…]

• As the agreement makes clear, both the Philippines and Australia accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards on all nuclear material in all peaceful nuclear activities within their territory, under their jurisdiction or carried out under their control anywhere. [More…]

• 1 ) From where does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission obtain its enriched fuel for the H.I.F.A. [More…]

• Which of these staff members has had professional experience in their current field of responsibility outside the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Five years research and development on plutonium metallurgy with UK Atomic Energy Authority. [More…]

• Has the Atomic Energy Commission made any proposals to him to conduct research on matters other than those related to the nuclear fuel cycle. [More…]

• Has the Government approved the proposed involvement of the French Atomic Energy Commission in this venture. [More…]

• I am informed that the French Atomic Energy Commission is not a party to the venture. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) In January 1974, on the advice of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee that there was no surface radiological hazard, fences were removed from around three cemeteries. [More…]

• and (2) The Commonwealth has incurred expenditure on the former atomic testing sites since the early 1950s. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s authority under Section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act; [More…]

• 1 ) Is he able to say whether the health risks encountered by United States personnel during the United States atomic weapons testing program were greater than those encountered by British and Australian personnel at Emu, Monte Bello and Maralinga. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) My Department has no detailed knowledge of either the health risks encountered by United States personnel or the monitoring procedures employed during the United States atomic weapons testing program and it is not possible to make a comparison with the tests conducted by the British. [More…]

• The islands were declared radiologically safe by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee in 1968, except for the two areas in the immediate vicinity of the ground zeros. [More…]

• Was the Government advised by Westinghouse Corporation that it had received construction permits for the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Project from the Philippines Atomic Energy Commission when only conditional work authorisations had been granted. [More…]

• In 1967 the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee (AWTSC) recommended to the Prime Minister distribution of the Pearce Report, the contents of which were summarised by the AWTSC, to all Commonwealth and State authorities likely to be concerned with access to the Maralinga Range even in the distant future. [More…]

• -The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) I refer the honourable member to data published by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency/International Atomic Energy Agency entitled ‘Uranium Resources, Production and Demand- December 1977’ and data published by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency entitled Nuclear Fuel Cycle Requirements and Supply Considerations through the Long-Term- February 1978’ and Annual Reports of the AAEC. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present an authority made pursuant to section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 and issued to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Peko-Wallsend Operations Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a document entitled ‘Ranger Uranium Project Government Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia, Peko-Wallsend Operations Ltd, Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd and Australian Atomic Energy Commission’. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a document entitled ‘Ranger Uranium Project Management Agreement between Peko-Wallsend Operations Ltd, Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd, Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd. [More…]

• 1 ) Further to his undertaking to distribute Environmental Survey Reports compiled by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (Hansard, 22 August 1978, page 593), will the Government consider employing more staff to ensure that no delay occurs in the compilation of the records in the future. [More…]

• In relation to the survey reports on the health of present and past employees in the Research Establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights (a) how many persons have been employed to carry out the studies for the second and subsequent reports and (b) when will the second report be completed and made available to the Parliament. [More…]

• Have the standards of the International Commission on Radiological Protection been exceeded in any respect by those of the National Health and Research Council at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights NSW in the setting of (a) radiation exposure limits for workers and members of the local population and (b) levels for radioactive discharges to the environment. [More…]

• What are the estimated exposure pathways for radioactive emissions released to the general environment from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• I am advised, on the basis of information collected by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission as at 1 October 1 978, that the position in the third world countries during the past five years was as follows: [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to comments made on 23 October by Or G. L. Miles, Deputy Director, Operations, Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishments, that the Commonwealth has a radioactive waste disposal problem. [More…]

• Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission acting on the assumption that nuclear power will be in use in one or more States by the mid-1990s. [More…]

• 1 ) What special nuclear materials are expected to be purchased by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission during 1978-79. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission proposed that a national radioactive waste repository be established. [More…]

• 1 ) What standards apply to the exposure of members of the public to radiation in the environment from the operation of the nuclear reactors at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s research establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• Are atmospheric discharges from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s research establishment at Lucas Heights, New South Wales, included in estimating radiation exposure to workers and residents in the neighbourhood; if so, what are the exposure pathways for tritium and iodine-131 and other radioactive products vented to the environment. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s estimate of the probable maximum radiation doses to members of the general public arising from all discharges from the Research Establishment at Lucas Heights are set out in answer to House of Representatives Question No. [More…]

• What is (a) the chemical and physical form and (b) the isotopic composition of the plutonium under the control of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• 1) I am not prepared to identify the chemical and physical form or the isotopic composition of plutonium under the control of the Australia Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) Are the physical security measures used to protect the plutonium stored at Maralinga the same as those set out in the International Atomic Energy Agency Information Circular 225 of September 1975, entitled The Physical Protection qf Nuclear Material. [More…]

• and (2) The physical security measures at Maralinga comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency Information Circular 225 of September 1975. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the International Atomic Energy Agency been advised of the existence of plutonium stored at Maralinga; if so, was the IAEA advised of the origin, amount, physical form, storage method and nature of physical protection of this plutonium. [More…]

• That is, the Chinese thought that the USSR would not make a pre-emptive strike using atomic weapons. [More…]

• I pointed out that the underground shelter appeared to be utterly inappropriate for atomic attack. [More…]

• When I asked: ‘Yes, but what if there is an atomic attack? [More…]

• That seemed to me to be an alarmingly naive view about what would happen in atomic war. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a report of the International Atomic Energy Agency entitled ‘Special Safeguards Implementation Report’. [More…]

• This is not inconsistent with the prediction of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, in its last annual report, that Australia could contract to supply up to 10,000 tonnes of uranium per annum by 1985. [More…]

• However, as honourable members will know, in November 1978 the Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority was removed from office to face charges of mismanagement and embezzlement. [More…]

• This paper was written by the French Government’s representative on the board of directors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Bertrand Goldschmidt, and a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Nuclear Energy Affairs. [More…]

• It is a British interest, for instance, that the peace should be secure, that the strong should not gobble up the weak, that international disputes, even if they cannot be settled, should at least be talked over until the danger point is passed, that atomic weapons should not get into the hands of any country which might be tempted to use them, that the nuclear balance should be firmly maintained, that relations between the capitalist and countries should become gradually easier . [More…]

• This research will be undertaken in co-operation with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC). [More…]

• What about the employees of the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]

• In 1976 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Before that it was part of the American Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) said in a sensible statement yesterday that Australia itself should have a separate nuclear regulatory authority as distinct from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Because of the essential conflict of interests the Government should split the Atomic Energy Commission to establish this regulatory body in this country. [More…]

• We are making a contribution through co-operative efforts to develop standards and codes of practice for the nuclear industry within such organisations as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency- IAEA. [More…]

• Research on it is being undertaken with the co-operation and support of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which has recently awarded a research contract of over $21,000 to Professor Ringwood for the purchase of research equipment and materials. [More…]

• That grant by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission supplements a grant of over $63,000 which the Government has made on the recommendation of the National Energy Research and Development Council to help Professor Ringwood in the further development and assessment of his process. [More…]

• If necessary we will supplement the resources of our embassy in Washington and supplement the activities of Dr Knight, an atomic energy counsellor, who is presently reporting on a regular basis to the [More…]

• The Harrisburg incident and the response of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and of the Government to this incident demonstrate these conclusions. [More…]

• A 1965 United States Atomic Energy Commission report, released in 1973, stated that 45,000 people could be killed and 100,000 injured in the worst possible accident. [More…]

• The other day in Japan a parliamentary delegation from Australia visited the big atomic power station in Yokohama Bay. [More…]

• Some 23 or 24 years ago, as a young councillor of the Sutherland Shire and as the Federal Member for Hughes, I was involved with the proposal to establish an atomic research establishment at Lucas Heights which is in my electorate. [More…]

• I am pleased to see the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) in the House tonight because I want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that recently I wrote to the Minister on behalf of the Hughes Federal Council of the Australian Labor Party proposing that consideration be given to referring to a parliamentary committee of inquiry the suggestion that reconsideration should be given to the suitability of Lucas Heights as a site for the atomic research establishment. [More…]

• I remember very well when I was a member of the Sutherland Council some 20 years ago, General Stevens the then Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission put the proposal that the great virtue of putting the Atomic Energy Commission’s establishment in that part of the Sydney area was that it was a very remote area and it was isolated and well away from residential development. [More…]

• If so, might it not be prudent to locate any new atomic reactor outside the Sydney or any other urban area? [More…]

• Resources and of Kashmir Affairs, April 1960-62; and of Industries and Natural Resources, 1962-63; for Foreign Affairs and Atomic Energy, 1963-66; resigned from Govt, June 1966, returned to legal profession; imprisoned, Sept. 1968; released Feb. 1969; elected Mem., Nat. [More…]

• of Pakistan 71-73, Minister of Foreign Affairs 71-77, of Defence 71-77, of Atomic Energy 72-77; Prime Minister 73-77, deposed in coup and imprisoned July 77, released July 77, detained again; Sentenced to death on murder charge March 78; Chair. [More…]

• The First Report ‘Analysis of Medical Interview Data’ of the Survey of Health Employees in the Research Establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights, Sydney, states (Summary, paragraph 9) that . [More…]

• The safeguards for Safari I are provided for in the Safeguards Transfer Agreement among the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), South Africa and the United States of 26 July 1967 as amended on 20 June 1974 (IAEA document INFCIRC/98/Mod.I). [More…]

• Briefly, the purpose of this Bill is to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow moneys from the Commonwealth or elsewhere and to give security and issue securities in respect of borrowings other than from the Commonwealth, to enable the Treasurer to guarantee repayment by the Commission of moneysborrowed other than from the Commonwealthand to provide that where securities are issued by the Commission, repayment is guaranteed by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In this regard, honourable members will recall that in June last year, the Atomic Energy Act was amended to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to participate on behalf of the Commonwealth in a joint venture with Peko-EZ. [More…]

• They will also recall that on 9 January 1 979 the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) signed the agreements and issued an authority under section 4 1 of the Atomic Energy Act to give effect to the Memorandum of Understanding. [More…]

• In his Budget Speech of 1 5 August 1978, the Treasurer (Mr Howard) noted that a certain proportion of the Commonwealth’s share of the costs of developing the Ranger uranium deposits would be raised by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission through borrowings. [More…]

• The existing provisions in section 27 of the Atomic Energy Act are inadequate to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow moneys on the semi-government market. [More…]

• These provisions retain the co-ordinating role of the Public Service Board in relation to terms and conditions of staff employed by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• -The Government has sought again to amend the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• On this occasion it has sought to amend the original Act, which was enacted in 1953, to empower the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow money on the open money market. [More…]

• We have now a silly situation in which, under the Ranger uranium consortium arrangement, the Government has the Atomic Energy Commission out seeking markets for its half of Ranger’s production. [More…]

• That could not in any way be conducive to a happy corporate marriage between the Atomic Energy Commission and Peko-EZ. [More…]

• At the moment the Atomic Energy Commission undertakes a variety of functions. [More…]

• 1 ) the Australian Atomic Energy Commission should not be empowered to raise funds on the commercial market for uranium mining until such time as the unresolved problems associated with the nuclear industry have been satisfactorily resolved: and [More…]

• 2 ) the Atomic Energy Act is an inappropriate legislative basis for nuclear energy research and development and for commercial activities and should be repealed and replaced by legislation to establish- [More…]

• a government corporation to conduct the present commercial activities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, such as the production and marketing of radioisotopes: and [More…]

• The Opposition believes that that is a thoroughly appropriate amendment to this legislation and moves it in the clear knowledge that the Government has established a committee of review to review the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• However, it is a committee that we believe has inadeqate terms of reference- terms which pre-determine the result to the review in the direction of the retention of the Atomic Energy Commission in a modified form as a national centre for energy research, and prevents the consideration of alternative forms of national energy research centres. [More…]

• One of the problems about building an energy research and development agency around the Atomic Energy Commission is that, basically, the weight of 25 years of bureaucratic experience will direct the whole thrust of such an agency towards the nuclear area. [More…]

• For that reason, the Opposition suggests that we break up the Com: mission so that it will have a commercial function- a function to handle nuclear medicine, radioisotopes and such matters- and an independent regulatory authority responsible for environmental matters, including the Australian Safeguards Office which, even though it has a specific safeguards function, is an integral part of the Atomic Energy Commission in as much as it reports through the Chairman of the Commission. [More…]

• We would propose to break it up further by forming a nuclear science authority which would do the kinds of things that the Atomic Energy Commission has done since its inception. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Commission within an energy research and development agency. [More…]

• If one were foolish enough to believe that the aims ofthe research and development agency would not be diluted by the force of 25 years of nuclear research and a career structure in the Atomic Energy Commission which would be heavily involved in this research and development agency, one would be very much mistaken. [More…]

• Some but not all of the people who were in the Atomic Energy Commission– [More…]

• There were Ministers in the McMahon Government who wanted Australia to have a nuclear weapon and there were elements in the Atomic Energy Commission which were prepared to accommodate that view and to comply with it. [More…]

• The Jervis Bay project was built around that and it was to be the reason for the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission in Australia. [More…]

• In fact, about 55 per cent of all Commonwealth expenditure on energy research and development goes into nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Translated into the total research effort- that is, Commonwealth and private- through universities, companies and other institutions, we find that the allocation for the Atomic Energy Commission takes 35 per cent of the total funds available for energy research and development in this country. [More…]

• I have referred to the conflict of the various roles that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has- its nuclear regulatory role, as a promoter of nuclear power, as a promoter of nuclear research, and now as a commercial activist in the uranium mining area. [More…]

• I just make the point that the United States, Britain, Canada and West Germany have broken up their atomic energy commissions into the kind of organisation which we propose in the amendments. [More…]

• Even though we do not have nuclear power programs in this country there are many related matters which require a competent, independent, nuclear regulatory body, and not one modelled on the Australian Safeguards Office, which is still part of the Commission, which has Commission staff, and which reports to the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act is an inappropriate vehicle for the commercial mining of uranium, or for any commercial mining, because under that Act any project can be declared a defence project. [More…]

• It has stuck with the concept because of the memorandum of understanding between the Atomic Energy Commission and Peko-EZ. [More…]

• But all the same the Government has run out on that spirit by having the Atomic Energy Commission seek to find its own markets overseas and let Peko-EZ rot. [More…]

• It has this hotch-potch of an institution, the Atomic Energy Commission, constantly amended. [More…]

• We believe that if it is carried it will be the best thing for Australia in respect of the policy for commercial uranium mining, and also in terms of the breaking up and the re-establishment of the various sections of the Atomic Energy Commission into separate independent bodies. [More…]

• -This is the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which seeks to amend the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]

• It might be of interest to look at the original Act and in it the formation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• In spite of what the member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) had to say, the basic functions of the Act are: Firstly, exploration, mining, treatment and selling of uranium; secondly, the construction and operation of atomicpower stations; thirdly, the research and distribution of information on uranium and atomic energy. [More…]

• This Act was a widening of the Atomic Energy (Control of Material) Act 1946 and 1952, which was repealed. [More…]

• This shows that the early Menzies governments appreciated that atomic energy was the energy of the future, even in those days. [More…]

• Then on 9 January 1 979 we had the historic Government agreement on the Ranger uranium project between the Commonwealth of Australia, Peko-Wallsend Operations Ltd, Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd, and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend the original Act of 1953 to provide the Australian Atomic Energy Commission with the necessary powers to borrow money in order to fulfil its obligations in connection with this Ranger agreement. [More…]

• This amendment to the Atomic Energy Act is just one part of the implementation of the uranium export policy stated on 1 June 1978. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission should not be empowered to raise funds on the commercial market for uranium mining until such time as the unresolved problems associated with the nuclear industry have been satisfactorily resolved. [More…]

• Honourable members had better forget any idea they may have that we are discussing a narrow concept of the Atomic Energy Act, because one cannot divorce the interrelationship of one aspect from the other. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act is a repressive piece of legislation. [More…]

• In 1953 the Atomic Energy Commission was set up for the primary purpose of ‘ensuring the provision of uranium or atomic energy for the defence of the Commonwealth’. [More…]

• The secondary purposes for the establishment of the Commission were to ensure the supply of uranium or atomic energy to governments of other countries and ‘any other purposes of the Commonwealth’. [More…]

• It was a defence Act and it was intended to allow the supply of Australian uranium to Britain and to the United States of America for the purpose of making atomic weapons. [More…]

• In 1976 the Fox report criticised the Atomic Energy Act for being too restrictive on civil liberties, and, in particular, the curtailment of public access to information. [More…]

• The Fox reportits correct name is the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry report, as I mentioned earlierrecommended against the use ofthe Atomic Energy Act to grant authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]

• That is, the Atomic Energy Act, which we are discussing tonight- [More…]

• On pages 248 to 252 of the report are set out the arguments as to why the Atomic Energy Act should not be used. [More…]

• In 1978 the Federal Government amended the Atomic Energy Act, making its purposes more directly related to the commercial aspect of uranium mining and export and imposing even more restrictive curtailments on civil liberties and trade union action. [More…]

• We have a situation in relation the Atomic Energy Act where those people who support uranium mining and its export say that that is an important and progressive move. [More…]

• Now, in 1 979, a further amendment is being made to the Atomic Energy Act- an Act designed to make provision for the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That repressive Act is now being amended again for the explicit purpose of allowing the AtomicEnergy Commission to raise funds on the commercial market for the Ranger project. [More…]

• The paper also sets out the reduced forecasts of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• In 1973-74 the Atomic Energy Commission expected that it would need 1 15,000 tonnes of uranium. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Commission in its 1977-78 report estimated that Australia could sell 10,000 tonnes in 1985. [More…]

• Therefore in one year the Atomic Energy Commission’s estimate dropped from 17,000 to 10,000 tonnes. [More…]

• Further, the Atomic Energy Commission is now privately admitting that it will be lucky to sell 2,000 tonnes a year. [More…]

• I have a paper headed ‘Atomic Energy Commission Estimates from the last four years of future annual requirements of the Western World for uranium’. [More…]

• I said earlier that we cannot divorce peaceful uses for atomic energy and nuclear war. [More…]

• -This Bill seeks to amend the Atomic Energy Act 1 953 and is known as the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow moneys from the Commonwealth or elsewhere and to give security and issue securities in respect of borrowings other than from the Commonwealth to enable the Treasurer to guarantee repayment by the Commission of moneysborrowed other than from the Commonwealthand to provide that where securities are issued by the Commission, repayment is guaranteed by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In June of last year the Atomic Energy Act was amended to enable the Commission to participate, on behalf of the Commonwealth, in a venture shared with Peko Mines Ltd and Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd. [More…]

• Parliament had decided that a certain proportion of the Commonwealth’s share of the cost of developing the Ranger uranium deposits would be raised by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission by way of borrowings. [More…]

• The provisions in respect of the Atomic Energy Act are totally inadequate to enable money to be borrowed on the semi-government market. [More…]

• the Atomic Energy Commission should not be empowered to raise funds on the commercial market for uranium mining until such time as the unresolved problems associated with the nuclear industry have been satisfactorily resolved . [More…]

• They talk about breaking up the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition talk about breaking up the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• But Mr Barre said that soaring oil prices left no alternative to nuclear power if France wished to remain an independent atomic power and an industrial exporting nation. [More…]

• -In a calm and rational way I would like to bring this debate back to the provisions of the Bill before the House and to talk about this proposal of the Government to widen the powers of the Atomic Energy Act, because it is the view of the Opposition that this Act is not the appropriate vehicle or umbrella for the purposes that the Government is seeking to attribute to it. [More…]

• Having been involved with this matter for a long time and being the member for the area which contains Australia’s only atomic reactor, I have had the good fortune to be able to associate with many of the 1,200 people whose lives are bound up with the continuation of the atomic energy program in Australia. [More…]

• I make no apology for the fact that I act as something of a watchdog for the atomic reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• The discharge into the river is of such consequence that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has not yet been able apparently to meet the requirements of the Sydney Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board and, therefore, is unable to discharge its effluent into the sewer main of Sydney. [More…]

• I think that my initial questions on this matter probably sparked off the interest of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in actually instituting a safety plan. [More…]

• I think that we ought to regard seriously the fact that a responsible newspaper with a very large circulation has contended that recently the Holsworthy artillery range was responsible for jettisoning a shell or some explosive device which landed on the road in fairly close proximity to Australia’s only atomic reactor. [More…]

• The attitude of the Opposition to the Bill is that the Atomic Energy Commission should not be empowered to raise funds for uranium mining on the commercial market until such time as the unresolved problems associated with the nuclear industry have been resolved satisfactorily. [More…]

• The Opposition contends also that the Atomic Energy Act is an inappropriate legislative basis for nuclear energy research and development and for commercial activities and that it should be repealed and replaced by other legislation. [More…]

• It will not bear the odium; the Atomic Energy Commission is to go on the market. [More…]

• The reasons for extending commercial powers to the Commission arise from the Government’s decision to use the Atomic Energy Act to mine the Ranger uranium deposit. [More…]

• It has made him a roving ambassador to speak authoritatively about atomic matters all around the world and in the United Nations. [More…]

• That is, the Atomic Energy Act 1 953 - for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]

• After all, this Bill is designed to strengthen the Atomic Energy Act, even though obviously that Act is the wrong vehicle. [More…]

• Section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act gives wide powers to the Commonwealth which are not appropriate for a commercial body. [More…]

• I do not want my constituents, who are decent people with a great economic investment in terms of a career in the Atomic Energy Commission, as scientists, physicists and specialists of various kinds, to get caught up in the politicalisation of this whole racket. [More…]

• Under the extremely repressive provisions of the Atomic Energy Act and the associated Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to the workers and unions involved in the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]

• We do not want the workers of this country to be in such an intimidatory situation as is provided for under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]

• As was made clear during the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 in the Senate on 29 May 1978, the Government’s policy is that penal provisions enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to the Ranger project. [More…]

• Very recently the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), in a submission to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Review of Research and Development Activities, put an alternative proposal which would no doubt be acceptable to the Atomic Energy Commission and to the workers of this country. [More…]

• If one looks at the document which has been produced by the Parliamentary Library and which shows the role of the Atomic Energy Commission, one finds that, so far, that Commission has experienced a cavalcade of very serious disappointments. [More…]

• I doubt very much that the Opposition would agree that in future a legislation committee should meet while an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act is being debated in the House, because obviously there is a great deal of interest in that Act and the Parliament is clearly divided as to how that Act ought to be utilised for the benefit of Australia. [More…]

• When an issue as important as the Atomic Energy Act comes on for debate, when five honourable members on this side of the House and three honourable members on the other side of the House are listed to speak, and when the debate is proceeding normally on an issue in relation to which there is genuine division and concern in the Australian community, the House cannot function in the circumstance of the Government Whip, acting either on whim - [More…]

• They would be subject to criticism from their constituents because they were not in the House but attending a committee meeting authorised by the House when an issue, such as atomic energy or whatever it may be, was being discussed in this House. [More…]

• These are: an undertaking that nuclear material supplied by Australia will not be diverted to military or explosive purposes; the application of International Atomic Energy Agency- IAEA- safeguards, which provide an international check against diversion of material; fall-back arrangements to ensure continued safeguarding of nuclear material should IAEA safeguards for any reason cease to apply; a requirement for Australia’s prior consent to any retransfers, to ensure that uranium supplied by Australia cannot be re-exported unless we are satisfied as to the ultimate destination and as to the controls that would apply; a requirement for Australia’s prior consent for high enrichment or reprocessing of material supplied by Australia. [More…]

• We also note that a very senior officer of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, again in a personal capacity, has proposed a quite radical new approach to international nuclear co-operative activities for the avoidance of nuclear proliferation. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a report by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council on radiological safety and future land use at the Maralinga atomic weapons test range. [More…]

• Part of this Bill also brings to the legislative table a decision- in this regard I look forward very much to the interdepartmental committee’s recommendations- which allows certain government departments and statutory bodies such as the Australian National University, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Atomic Energy Commission to import certain goods free of duty. [More…]

• He points out in the document- which the Minister will not have tabled- the inability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to administer safeguards satisfactorily. [More…]

• -There is a contention abroad to the effect that the atomic reactor in my electorate is under threat. [More…]

• I have here a circular or a minute paper which is signed by the manager of the HIFAR operations section of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment. [More…]

• If that has occurred there is something very seriously wrong with the security in the atomic reactor. [More…]

• Other agreements, which will remain in force, cover such subjects as commerce, including agreements restricting access to the United States market for certain Taiwanese products; agriculture; peaceful use of atomic energy; civil aviation; claims; navigation; customs; and economic and technical co-operation. [More…]

• 1 ) When are the surveys on the environment and work related health hazards of both current and former employees of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, NSW to commence. [More…]

• 1 ) The surveys of both current and former employees of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights have commenced. [More…]

• 3192, has been completed and was handed to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for printing on 2 April 1979. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for National Development accept responsibility for an official minute circulated at Lucas Heights Atomic Research Establishment which seeks to justify escalation of security arrangements in the HIFAR reactor area? [More…]

• Atomic Energy Act, 1 953 ss. [More…]

• Atomic Energy Act, 1 953 s. 62 [More…]

• More importantly, the Government required a police protective service in respect of embassies, airports, official residences and risk installations such as the Atomic Energy Commission and Defence munitions depots. [More…]

• Sea and air transport may also be used during a particular transport movement and in such cases the Commonwealth Department of Transport is responsible for ensuring that regulatory requirements in conformity with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials are met. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s assessment of the possible consequences of a major accident at Lucas Heights Research Establishment is not based on the findings of the Rasmussen Study or on the methodology used. [More…]

• What precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights from such activity. [More…]

• In addition to the safety measures outlined above (see (2)), an area of 1700 metres around the Atomic Energy Research Establishment is noted on all military maps as a restricted area. [More…]

• Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission or any other Federal agency established a transuranium register of persons who have come into contact with uranium or its radio-active products so that the long term effects on health can be monitored: if not, why not. [More…]

• Such work as is done, is mostly undertaken by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which keeps comprehensive records of all employees who may be exposed to radiation or radioactive contamination. [More…]

• Commonwealth and State Government departments and establishments involved in nuclear activities such as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Radiation Laboratory, and State Health Departments. [More…]

• 1 ) How much radioactive waste is in temporary storage in places other than those under the exclusive control and responsibility of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• ) and (2) In addition to radioactive waste materials held by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ( AAEC) there are small amounts of medium and low level radioactive wastes held by hospitals, research institutions, government departments and industry. [More…]

• 1 ) Estimates of nuclear power capacity in Australia of 0.5 GW in 1988 and 1.0 GW in 1990 were provided by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) to the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in 1975, in response to a questionnaire seeking information for the 1975 joint IAEA/NEA report Uranium Resources. [More…]

• How often has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Safety Review Committee met during each year since 1962. [More…]

• How many persons (a) employed by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and (b) others are engaged in the design cost study or the possible siting and building of a new reactor for the Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission recently advertised in newspapers for a marine zoologist to conduct research into the movement and fate of contaminants released near shore (with respect to siting of nuclear facilities) and in deep ocean waters (with respect to dumping). [More…]

• When will the surveys on the environment and work related health hazards of both current and former employees of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission be available. [More…]

• It provides a new framework for the nuclear co-operation between Australia and the United States which commenced well before 1956 when the two governments concluded an agreement concerning the civil use of atomic energy. [More…]

• The application of International Atomic Energy Agency- IAEA- safeguards to Australian-origin nuclear material in the [More…]

• Honourable members should be aware that in arriving at this agreement, Australia had to take into account the United Kingdom’s obligations under the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry in its first report drew attention to the fact that yellowcake does not attract full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• The position is that the full intensity of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards does not apply until the uranium is in a form suitable for fuel fabrication or enrichment, that is, in the form of UF6, uranium hexafluoride, U02 uranium dioxide or, for certain reactors, natural uranium metal. [More…]

• The only requirement under NPT safeguards is that when exports of yellowcake take place the transfer be notified to the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• As a result the Government in formulating its nuclear safeguards policy decided that any future sales arrangements for exports of Australian uranium should be such that the uranium will be in a form which attracts full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards by the time it leaves Australian ownership. [More…]

• We know now that the Government has negotiated with France but there is a doubt about whether France will accept either the terms of the Australian Model Safeguards Agreement or the authority of the European Atomic Energy Community. [More…]

• I also held discussions with EURATOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. [More…]

• In the event of the NPT safeguards agreement or of other full-scope International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards not applying, Australia would have the right to institute its own safeguards, but only in respect of material supplied by Australia or equivalent quantities. [More…]

• Dr Wilson is the head of the External Relations and Regulatory Branch of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and is currently the chairman of the key political working group of INFCE Working Group 3. [More…]

• In 1900 Henry Adams discussed the use of atomic power. [More…]

• There are two nuclear reactors in Australia, both located at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC), Research Establishment, Lucas Heights. [More…]

• 1 ) What independent checks are made in Australia by Federal Government Authorities or other Authorities to ensure that enriched fuel transported to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights, NSW, is in accordance with the International Atomic Energy Agency 1973 Regulations, as amended, for the safe transport of radioactive materials. [More…]

• The Australian Atomic Energy Commission checks to ensure that arrangements made by the United Kingdom comply with the appropriate regulations. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend section 4 1 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 which concerns mining for prescribed substances on behalf of or in association with the Commonwealth, and to amend a number of the security provisions of the Act. [More…]

• The amendments introduced in the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• In relation to the security provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, the Government’s policy that penal provisions which were largely enacted for defence purposes would not be applied to ordinary commercial undertakings, was made clear in the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• Clause 6 of the Bill repeals section 60 of the principal Act which applies the stringent provisions of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 to all works of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission including commercial undertakings. [More…]

• The clause substitutes a provision which requires that a notice be published in the Gazette, by the Minister, if the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act is to apply to a work of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• I emphasise that the present amendments do not affect in any way the powers provided by the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 to enable the Commonwealth to implement nuclear non-proliferation safeguards in Australia pursuant to the Government’s international obligations. [More…]

• To support energy research and development, the Australian Government made available almost $ 15.5m for commitment in 1978-79, additional to that provided through normal funding for such activity to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and other bodies. [More…]

• -This evening I want to discuss for a few moments the question of atomic energy and the production of uranium in Australia. [More…]

• In 1947 the Labour Party of Great Britain first used atomic uranium to explode the first bomb. [More…]

• For that purpose it has built a large number of atomic power reactors. [More…]

• The Council goes on to say that, if the Government does decide not to sell, it should establish a separate commercial authority to take over the management of its interest -from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, leaving the Commission to carry out its nuclear and other energy research and advisory functions. [More…]

• That is in line with what the Australian Labor Party has been saying about splitting the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s functions and having a commercial authority to manage the commercial activities of the Commission. [More…]

• In addition, the Government has elected to proceed, contrary to the recommendations of the Fox Commission, with the mining of uranium at Ranger under the repressive Atomic Energy Act and the related Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]

• In June 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage in wartime, for passing on technical details of atomic weapons to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in September 1945, still technically during wartime, at a time when Russia was an ally of the United States of America. [More…]

• The judge’s reaction was based on an assumption that the USSR had no high level technical capacity and that the only way it could develop an atomic bomb was by stealing secrets from the Americans. [More…]

• He also assumed that a bloody and prolonged war in a divided nation with a 3,000 year history was not the product of domestic pressures but the direct result of a sketch of an atomic bomb component drawn from memory by a machinist with no scientific training. [More…]

• In other words, material about the atomic bomb which 20 years ago was regarded as terribly secret is now available for open scrutiny. [More…]

• The Government is, of course, gratified that the Council of European Communities yesterday adopted a mandate enabling the European Commission to negotiate a nuclear safeguards agreement with Australia on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community; that is, Euratom. [More…]

• Such work as is done, is mostly undertaken by the Austraiian Atomic Energy Commission which keeps comprehensive records of all employees who may be exposed to radiation or radioactive contamination. [More…]

• Commonwealth and State Government departments and establishments involved in nuclear activities such as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australian Radiation Laboratory, and State Health Departments would be a massive undertaking. [More…]

• For example, conversions from direct current to alternating current, from imperial measurement to metric or from diesel to liquefied petroleum gas could probably be regarded as technical; technological is far broader, involving the sum of knowledge of the means and methods of producing goods and services; for example, conversion from fossil fuels to atomic power. [More…]

• Given that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission estimates of annual world demand for uranium have dropped from 115,000 tonnes in 1973 to 54,000 tonnes in 1978 and that the surplus in world uranium production will be more than 30,000 tonnes a year by 1985, does this not mean that Australian uranium will be in acute oversupply and will be sold into a buyers market with tumbling prices and safeguards deterioration? [More…]

• The length of the operating life of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s HIFAR reactor might be determined by any of the following technical and economic indicators: unacceptable deterioration of vital components which could only be replaced with great difficulty and cost; unavailability of imported components or materials which need to be replaced, such as fuel or heavy water; increased costs related to maintenance, operation or fuel; the incapacity of the plant to meet demands for radioisotopes and scientific research in terms of neutron flux, volume of irradiation space, quality of neutron beams and plant reliability. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to a minute, reference GAC: FRB, signed by Mr G. A. Creef, Manager HIFAR Operations Section, Australian Atomic Energy Research Establishment. [More…]

• and (e) what is the nature of security arrangements taken to counter this alleged threat for the purpose of protecting (i) employees at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and (ii) residents living in close proximity to the Commission at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• Eighteen members of a Japanese anti-nuclear group known as ‘Japanese Against Atomic and Nuclear Bombs and Power’ arrived in Australia on 19 May 1979. [More…]

• Since you say you would give certain advice, does your Government now support the concept of atomic power stations in this country? [More…]

• The position on atomic energy stations in Australia will depend on State decisions. [More…]

• Australia acknowledges the importance of international solutions for such questions and is participating in a study of international spent fuel management being carried out under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). [More…]

• France’s position relating to energy and discussions which were held with the European Atomic Energy Community indicated the difficulties which confront a country or an area which is totally devoid of natural energy resources. [More…]

• To mention some salient positions, he was chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Secretary to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council, and Secretary to the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]

• Following remarks that were made last week by the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Wran, concerning the closing down of the Lucas Heights reactor for servicing, there was a reaction from the Premier of Western Australia that, if the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was considering putting in a new reactor for the production of isotopes and for research work, his Government would be very willing to have it established in Western Australia. [More…]

• I have received the assurance of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that that reactor will not be put into operation until it meets all the design specifications to ensure that there are no hazards to anybody working at Lucas Heights. [More…]

• I am informed that additionally in July and/or August, Council members bad discussions with a Commissioner and the Director of the Australian Heritage Commission, the Acting Director of the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation and officers from the Department of Trade and Resources and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• These are the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• The reviews of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Bureau of Mineral Resources are in various stages of consideration but they certainly have not been brought to the Parliament for full debate. [More…]

• 1 ) What equipment and materials disappeared allegedly between 8 and 10 December 1978 from the isotope workshop or other areas within the jurisdiction of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights, NSW. [More…]

• Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council on the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment 1979. [More…]

• In which cases was the uranium from (a) the Australian Atomic Energy Commission stockpile, (b) Mary Kathleen and (c) other sources? [More…]

• If not, does this mean that as far as the Nuclear Suppliers Group is concerned, transfer of laser isotope separation facilities, and critical components thereof, will not necessarily be covered by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]

• They also require International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards to be applied to equipment, other than analytical instruments, especially designed or prepared for the separation of isotopes of uranium which is transferred. [More…]

• -The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3)1 refer the honourable member to the joint OECD Nuclear Energy Agency/International Atomic Energy Agency report ‘Uranium Resources, Production and Demand ‘of December 1977. [More…]

• Do contingency plans exist for the possible event of an accident at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission establishment at Lucas Heights; if so, what are the details of the plans which are calculated to protect (a) workers within the establishment, (b) residents living within a radius of 5 miles and (c) residents living between S miles and IS miles from the establishment. [More…]