atomic - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the word atomic was used in the Senate during the 1970s

Is South Vietnam a member of 11 United Nations agencies, the International Atomic Energy Commission and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade? [More…]
Is it the National Radiation Advisory Committee or the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee? [More…]
ls the Minister representing the Minister, for Education and Science aware of an article appearing on page 1 of today’s ‘Australian’ entitled ‘Decision To Produce A-bomb Fuel “May Have Been Made” ‘, wherein Professor Encel, Professor of Sociology at the University of New South Wales, raised grave doubts about the Government’s possible intention regarding, and use of, the proposed establishment of an atomic plant at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Has the Government decided to buy for the Jervis Bay power station the type of atomic plant that produces the most nuclear explosive material? [More…]
If it was not the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, why not. [More…]
Has the Government or the Atomic Energy Commission considered the feasibility of installing a combined nuclear power/desalination plant at Chowilla; if so, what conclusion has been reached. [More…]
Are there persons from other countries in Australia by arrangement with the ‘ International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]
Can an interim report be made available of the findings of the team, mentioned by the Minister on 26th January 1971 in answer to questions asked in the 1970-71 Senate Estimates Committee D, which was to be sent to examine the extent of rehabilitation of the Finniss River carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
by leave- I give notice that on the next day of sitting I shall move that the International Atomic Energy Agency (Privileges and Immunities) Regulations as contained in Statutory Rules 1971 No. [More…]
Has the laser beam delivery system for stand-off bombing been specifically designed for the delivery of atomic bombs. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for National Development seen a publication by Professor H. J. de Brium of the School of Physical Science at the Flinders University in South Australia in which he suggests amendments to the Atomic Energy Act 1953 to institute a body of review to supervise future nuclear development in Australia? [More…]
The article proposes an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act and the honourable senator has asked whether the Minister for National Development will give consideration to this article. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for National Development: Is Australia currently negotiating with France to arrange a treaty far co-operation in the area of the peaceful use of atomic energy? [More…]
The Chairman of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee said that he had visited Paris twice and had also visited the Pacific test site in connection with the recent series of French nuclear tests. [More…]
Pursuant to section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966, I present the twentieth 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…]
4 of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee entitled Strontium-90 and caesium- 137 in the Australian environment during 1970 and some results for 1971 (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 (October 1972). [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a recent statement by the Premier of Queensland that negotiations are proceeding between the Government of that State and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the construction of a uranium enrichment plant in central Queensland. [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…]
We realise, of course, that there was a challenge to mankind in the reactionary fascist regimes that were astride the world at the time when an atomic device was exploded in Japan. [More…]
There is no doubt that that atomic device ended a war that was testing man’s capacity to live as he wanted to live and freed man from one of the greatest scourges that was ever devised by man- a fanatical psychopath who had been built up by the fascist forces. [More…]
That the Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations, as contained in Statutory Rules 1974, No. [More…]
39, and made under the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973, be disallowed. [More…]
(Tasmania- Minister for Agriculture)- I present the twenty-second annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Pursuant to section 3 1 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…]
Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in its latest annual report put Australia’s total uranium reserves at 323 000 tons, or 9. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister had discussions with the New South Wales Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Freudenstein, concerning an application for an exploration lease to search for uranium in New South Wales by the French 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…]
Yes- In particular, research has been carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission into food irradiation. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Northern Territory have jointly undertaken a program of environmental studies, including field trials for revegetation around Rum Jungle, on pollution in the Rum Jungle area. [More…]
1 ) Was any disciplinary action imposed on any officer of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission following the gross pollution of the Finniss River in the Northern Territory due to a failure to control industrial wastes from Rum Jungle, as referred to in the Senate Select Committee’s Report on Water Pollution. [More…]
Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission contribute to the payment for the environmental rehabilitation of this river. [More…]
Is this material available only from the Isotope Division of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights? [More…]
Atomic Tests at Maralinga: Contamination of Vehicles (Question No. [More…]
As the honourable senator quite rightly said, membership of the Fund should be open to any state member of the United Nations or any of its specialised agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
As long as a country falls into one of those categories- a member of the United Nations or one of its specialised agencies or the International Atomic Energy Agency- it has the capacity to be a member of the Fund. [More…]
I would add that apart from being satisfied, I am bewildered as to why the International Atomic Energy Agency is included in the Agreement. [More…]
The International Atomic Energy Agency, because of its functions, cannot be accepted as an agency of the United Nations. [More…]
It is just that by including the International Atomic Energy Agency, coverage can be extended to some countries which otherwise would not be involved. [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.nunclear weapon states, is additional to these recommendations. [More…]
The International Atomic Energy AgencyIAEA safeguards; [More…]
The words he particularly queried were: or of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
1 ) Is the yellowcake released from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Lucas Heights stockpile to fulfil orders due to be met by Australian companies being sent to the United States of America and Canada for processing. [More…]
As required of a party to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Australia advises the International Atomic Energy Agency of the quantity, composition and destination of the material exported. [More…]
The transport and packaging arrangements are made having regard to all relevant requirements of the ‘Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Commonwealth and State government regulations and requirements. [More…]
Have the Government and its inter-departmental committees finished their study of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘That the Atomic Energy Act 1953 not be used for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. ‘ [More…]
Pursuant to section 3 1 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 ‘Tube Alloys’ agreement, which was concluded in 1 943 by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, concerned co-operation in atomic bomb research and development. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for National Development been drawn to the report of the Australian Atomic Commission for the year ended 30 June 1977? [More…]
This document is available in the Library of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been involved in the past in some energy accounting work in relation to various types of power stations. [More…]
the undertaking of energy research and development programs by instrumentalities within his Ministry, for example, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission; and [More…]
Professor Butler presently holds the position of Director, Australian Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights. [More…]
This view is supported by the Joint Report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [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…]
Some Commonwealth statutory bodies, such as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, have functions which include a mix of business and non-business roles. [More…]
1 ) Partners in the Ngalia Basin exploration joint venture managed by Central Pacific Minerals are Agip Nuclear Australia Pty Ltd, Urangesellschaft Australia Pry Ltd, Central Pacific Minerals NL and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In 1976, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission advertised its share in the joint venture for sale to an Australian interest. [More…]
Is the Atomic Energy Commission endeavouring to sell its share in the project. [More…]
If so, will any purchase be restricted to an Australian interest, or will the Atomic Energy Commission ‘s share be sold to overseas interests regardless of a possible Australian minority holding. [More…]
Accordingly, with the thought of what a week’s work might have achieved, the Government proposes for passage today and tomorrow the Appropriation Bills, consideration of which is already well advanced and is towards an end, the two Wool Industry Bills, two Wheat Industry Stabilization Bills, the Wine Grape Bills and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, 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…]
Therefore, for nine years we mined uranium there although at Mount Painter we had mined some uranium during the war years for the British atomic bomb experiments. [More…]
Considers that the safeguards agreement to be concluded by Australia with the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with Treaty ArticleIII must in no way subject Australia to treatmentless favourable than is accorded to other States which, individually or collectively, conclude safeguards agreements with that Agency. [More…]
Nobody knows what will happen in the next decade, but at least we know that there is a better chance in having the existing atomic powers joined in even some loose federation than by drifting out into the unknown while fearing that at any time China might achieve nuclear parity. [More…]
Obviously the Minister for National Development has to placate the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
One question related to a survey by Professor Baxter and his friends of the Atomic Energy Commission of the Finness River to find out how much pollution had occurred there. [More…]
We have found more uses for atomic power. [More…]
We have seen programmes for the use of atomic power for peaceful purposes. [More…]
We know that America which possesses the devastating atomic bomb could annihilate her present adversary but she has never used the bomb because of world wide public pressure. [More…]
At least we have some agreement with the present atomic powers which gives us a basis for negotiation. [More…]
The statutory offices the salaries and allowances of which are determined by the Governor-General are those of members of the Atomic Energy Commission, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority, Australian Coastal Shipping Commission, and the Australian National Airlines Commission; the Director-General of Security, Governor and Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation, General Manager of the Trading Bank of the Commonwealth Savings Bank and Development Bank, Solicitor-General, and the Commissioner and Associate Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission; and members of the Australian Tourist Commission, Australian Industrial Research and Development Grants Board, Austraiian Universities Commission, and Repatriation Commission. [More…]
The list contains a considerable number of other statutory office holders, including members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]
); ‘International Politics in the Atomic Age’ (1959); co-author; ‘Major Foreign Powers’ (latest ed., 1967); ‘Government and Politics in the Twentieth Century’ (latest ed., 1965). [More…]
Following on the question asked a few minutes ago by Senator Keeffe, will the Leader of the Government in the Senate confirm that there has not been one word of discussion on the question of atomic development between the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the Government? [More…]
Is it the National Radiation Advisory Committee or the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee? [More…]
The results of the monitoring programmes which are conducted by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee are made available to the National Radiation Advisory Committee. [More…]
Some 60 countries have recognised South Vietnam, which is also member of many oi the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]
The article mentions that the American Atomic Energy Commission has decided to bury most radioactive atomic waste in a national depository which will cost about $45m and take some5 years to build. [More…]
Has the Government given any consideration to the provision of satisfactory disposal arrangements for radioactive atomic waste from the power plant to be built at Jervis Bay? [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate seen reports of statements made by a nuclear expert, Mr H. J. de Bruin, a former principal research scientist with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, to the effect that the Jervis Bay nuclear power station could not be justified on economic grounds? [More…]
Is there grave disquiet among senior officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission because of the implied curtailment of their entitlement to take part in public discussion on the critical question of the implications of nuclear power generation for Australia. [More…]
Has the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, either unilaterally, or by direction ofthe Government, imposed any restriction, prohibition or limitation on such public discussion. [More…]
I am not aware of any grave disquiet among senior officers of the Atomic Energy Commission in relationto the matter the honourable senator raises. [More…]
The Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission has not imposed any new controls in this mailer. [More…]
Agencies of the United Nations, of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]
to bury A-Waste in salt mine’, which states that the American atomic Energy Commission has decided to bury its most radio-active atomic waste in a depository that will cost some $US45m and take as long as 5 years to build, has any consideration been given to the provision of satisfactory disposal arrangements at the power plant to be built at Jervis Bay; if so, will the Minister provide the Senate with detailed plans and a description of the disposal arrangements. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is familiar with the processes in use, both for the recovery and the disposal of the waste. [More…]
How many times has the National Consultative Committee on Atomic Energy, the appointment of which was announced by the Prime Minister on 12 June, 1969, met. [More…]
Has any report yet been published; if so, what, in summary, are its findings, and have they been considered by the Australian Government or the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has for a number of years carried on a programme of research directed towards the manufacture of nuclear reactor fuel using Australian uranium ores. [More…]
Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission foreshadowed the building of five further power stations after that proposed to be built at Jervis Bay: if so, will these be of the same designas that chosen for Jervis Bay. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission believes that afterthe Jervis Bay power station has been completed there will be a steady and increasing demand for nuclear stations. [More…]
How many research scientists, experimental officers and technicians now comprise the Physical Metallurgy Group in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment. [More…]
What was the total number ofestablished positions in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment during each of the past 7 years in each of the following categories: [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment does not operate to a fixed establishment structure, but the number of professional staff employed during each of the past 7 years in each of the categories has been: [More…]
Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission had a twenty-two man team investigating the SGHWR, if so, where did they carry out their investigations. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission sent twenty-two people to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority several years ago to obtain experience in a number of areas, and for some of them to participate with the U.K.A.E.A. [More…]
Also the Australian School of Nuclear Technology at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Research Establishment at Lucas Heights offers an advanced post-graduate course in Nuclear Technology which covers phases of the design, engineering and operation of nuclear reactors. [More…]
and (2) The specifications for the proposed nuclear power station at Jervis Bay were prepared by officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission assisted by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and in association with the Commission’s consultants, the Bechtel Pacific Corporation Ltd. [More…]
In view of the remarks made last night by the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter, to the Shoalhaven Progress Association on the possible nuclear power station at Jervis Bay, in which he used the works ‘if built’, can the Minister give an undertaking that this issue will be referred to Estimates Committee (D), having in mind the role of the Department of the Interior as custodian of the people’s land, to enable senators to obtain counter arguments to those of the Atomic Energy Commission from conservationists and scientists, since the proposal already has the tacit support of Mr Bissett, a former senior officer of the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
In response to the invitation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to bid by 15th June, 14 tenders have been received from 7 organisations in 4 countries, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]
Has the Atomic Energy Commission Research Establishment undertaken any research programmes on ceramics since 1960; if so were the programmes major research projects. [More…]
Until 1966, a research project of the Materials Division of the Atomic Energy Commission was concerned with ceramics based on beryllium oxide, which has special moderating properties in nuclear reactors. [More…]
Did the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, in addressing a Liberal Speakers’ Conference in June 1969 state that Australia would spend$5,000m on nuclear power stations by the year 2000; if so, on what basis was the estimate of power needs made, and how was it costed. [More…]
The Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission addressed the Liberal Speakers’ Conference on 13th July 1969. [More…]
How many electron microscopes does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission Research [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energyy Commission has four electron microscopes at its Research Establishment. [More…]
Did the Australian Atomic Energy Commission send a six-man team to investugate the CANDU reactor; if so, has a report been presented. [More…]
and (2) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has from lime to time seconded staff to work at atomic energy establishments in various countries with which it has entered into bilateral agreements. [More…]
Six people were seconded to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the Ontario Hydro Electric Company of Canada to participate in the Canadian nuclear power programme to gain experience generally. [More…]
The Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee, known as AWTSC, which is serviced by the Department of Supply, conducts two complementary monitoring programmes on radioactive fallout. [More…]
I acknowledge, as I think our present Minister does, that the United States and the Soviet Union realise that in this atomic age a big power battle is not worthwhile unless the 2 countries can be contained. [More…]
The Atherton Tableland is included in the monitoring programme of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee but, as I mentioned earlier, it is no: possible at this stage to provide any information concerning radioactive fallout from the latest French tests because the data is not complete. [More…]
In view of the recent statement by Sir Philip Baxter of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission suggesting the acquisition by Australia of chemical and bacteriological weapons of war, will the Government make a formal statement to the Parliament, making clear to Australia its attitude on the use by Australia of chemical and biological methods of warfare? [More…]
In view of the statements made by Mr H. J. de Bruin, a nuclear expert and former Principal Research Scientist with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the effect that the establishment of the Jervis Bay nuclear power station could not be justified on economic grounds, and that as a pilot plant for the future nuclear development in Australia the $130m installation at Jervis Bay would be utterly extravagant, and in view of similar expressions of opinion which have been voiced against the economics of the power station and expounding the dangers of water and thermal pollution, will the Government delay acceptance of a tender until further expert investigation of all the possible contingencies has been undertaken. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is aware of the characteristics of all types of nuclear reactors in relation to the possible dangers of their releasing pollution. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, refers to a reported statement by the South Australian Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hall, that South Australia should be connected to the eastern States power grid rather than obtain an atomic reactor. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether an atomic reactor, even of a smaller size, would be an economic proposition for a State such as South Australia? [More…]
I note the honourable senator’s reference to a statement by Mr Steele Hall, the Leader of the Opposition in South Australia, to the effect that that State would do better to connect its system to the eastern States grid system than to have its own atomic power station. [More…]
Will) the proposed Nuclear Power Station at Murray’s Beach, in the Jervis Bay region of New South Wales, require a causeway to he built across to Bowen Island; if so, what action will the Australian Atomic Energy Commission take to stop the influx of rats tothe island which has a thriving penguin rookery where the penguins’ eggs would be a prime target for rate. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is aware of the penguin rookery on Bowen Island and, as has been stated before, is anxious to preserve as far as possible the natural state of the environment. [More…]
I fear similar opposition when 1 direct my personal criticism against the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
However I think it would be much better if we had other scientific bodies to examine the standards which the Atomic Energy Commission claims to follow. [More…]
Linus Pauling was scoffed at when he first made some suggestions about pollution but in America now even some of the State authorities are not accepting everything said by atomic scientists as being gospel which must not be questioned. [More…]
According to the information I have, a number of study groups are undertaking environmental tests of the area but in the final analysis all the data is going back to the Atomic Energy Commission for final evaluation and I think that is wrong. [More…]
At this stage we do not say that any atomic wastage is affecting oysters. [More…]
The monitoring carried out in that area is under the control of a troika consisting of the State Department of Health, the New South Wales Maritime Services Board and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
But then we discovered that the only people with the sophisticated instruments necessary are those employed by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I ask: Are we to assume that despite all the environmental pollution feasibility studies, in effect, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission alone will determine standards and that no Cabinet curbs will be applied to some of the Bonapartist tendencies of the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
I was referring to the Bonapartist tendencies of the present Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In co-operation with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of the Interior is at present carrying out an ecological study of Bowen Island and the headland in the vicinity of Murray’s Beach with a view to the preservation of the flora and fauna in the area. [More…]
They include the Commonwealth Bank, the Commonwealth Railways, the Australian National Airlines Commission, the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, the Australian Whaling Commission - I included that even though it is now defunct, because of the particular job that it did so efficiently - the Snowy Moun tains Hydro-electric Authority, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission and the Export Payments Insurance Corporation. [More…]
He cited the Commonwealth Banking Corporation, the Commonwealth Railways, the Australian Whaling Commission, the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission and others. [More…]
What are the salaries and allowances payable to (a) the Chairman and other members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (b) the Commissioner and Associate Commissioners of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, (c) the Chairman and members of the Snowy Mountains Council (d) the Chairman of the National Coal Research Advisory Committee and (e) the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on Materials Handling. [More…]
Australian Atomic Energy Commission Chairman- salary $19,500, allowance$1 , 000. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators 1 present an interim report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30th June 1970. [More…]
586, there is a network of 26 stations throughout Australia and New Guinea administered by the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee. [More…]
The Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee conducts two complementary monitoring programmes for radioactive fallout in Australia. [More…]
The Eighteenth Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was tabled today. [More…]
After Cabinet consideration of the report of the feasibility study, and further discussions with the New South Wales Government, the Prime Minister announced in October 1969 that the Commonwealth Government would ‘take Australia into the atomic age by beginning the construction of an atomic plant at Jervis Bay to generate electricity. [More…]
He said: ‘We believe that Australia will make increasing use of atomic power in the years ahead, and that the time for this nation to enter the atomic age has now arrived.’ [More…]
No real protests have been lodged about the French atomic tests in the Pacific. [More…]
On 15th May an atomic test was carried out in the Pacific by France. [More…]
Anybody who has driven along the Melbourne to Geelong road when one of the 707 aircraft has flown low overhead will know that it is like being hit by an atomic bomb. [More…]
When that project was abandoned the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Government moved quickly into the setting up of a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Since then a tremendous number of queries have been raised by a very large and powerful body of skilled people outside of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Professor Baxter, who is in charge of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has said that probably in the next 30 years - before the turn of the century - $5,000m will be spent on the development of nuclear power in Australia, In fairness to him I should make it clear that this amount will be spent not only by the Commonwealth but also by industry in Australia on the development of nuclear power. [More…]
People from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission have been very good and have helped us by discussing the subject with us. [More…]
If a bomb hit the station it would have the same effect as exploding a very large atomic bomb. [More…]
But if we were at war and if a bomb hit it, it would have the same effect as exploding a large atomic bomb. [More…]
It would be the equivalent of the force of a giant atomic bomb. [More…]
Australia is moving not only into the era of the use of nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes but also into the era of a very real danger of a hit by a bomb, which would have the effect of an atomic bomb exploding there. [More…]
There is already an exchange of knowledge between the atomic energy commissions of America, Canada and other countries. [More…]
At the moment the Atomic Energy Commission has before it tenders from several parts of the world for the building of this station, ft has not yet let the tenders. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission is in touch throughout the world with work proceeding on fast breeder reactors and thermal reactors. [More…]
Atomic Energy Commission people and officers of the Department of National Development and other Commonwealth departments. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission has made a point for a number of years of sending officers overseas to study ali these matters and the relevant legislation. [More…]
I pay full tribute to officers of the Department of the Interior for their vigilance in being able to inform the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution of the serious pollution of the Finniss River by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Anyone who has read the report of that Committee knows of the amazing answer from the Atomic Energy Commission that the Finniss River ran out into nowhere. [More…]
Quite frankly, I do not believe the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I would be very interested to see the plans of the Atomic Energy Commission in respect of locations of future nuclear reactors. [More…]
Let us examine the matter for the purpose of seeing what validity we should give to this book by Catherine R. Dalton who submits a theory that, with the investigation of atomic expansion after the Second World War, a tripartite agreement was entered into at Quebec between Canada, Great Britain and the United States for the exchange of information on atomic energy, chemical and biological warfare, and rocketry. [More…]
Was the agreement for the exchange of atomic, chemical and biological warfare and rocket information? [More…]
It is history now that the Department of the Interior has conducted field surveys to see what rehabilitation has been carried out by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The uranium and copper mining and treatment operations at Rum Jungle have been under the control of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The results of these tests have been made available to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Has the Department decided to leave this River with15 miles of its banks devastated; if not, what compensation towards this River’s rehabilitation will be forthcoming from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, on behalf of the then Prime Minister supplied the necessary information as to the salaries and allowances of various statutory officers, including the chairmen of the Australian Apple and Pear Board, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Australian Canned Fruits Board, the Australian Canned Fruits Sales Promotion Committee, the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority, the Australian Capital Territory Totalisator Agency [More…]
Similar questions were asked about the Chairman and members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I am sure that they will query the sort of yardstick that is used when they study the war trials of the Nazi war criminals and consider that the very nations which set up those courts were at that time discussing the possibilities of atomic war and searching for devices which could lead to massacre on a far grander scale than was ever contrived by Hitler and his gang of wicked men. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators 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…]
Was the Agreement for the exchange of atomic, chemical and biological warfare and rocket information? [More…]
In brief, this programme covers in principle the whole of military, research and development excluding the atomic field, and is an agreement to exchange information and to co-operate in research and development activities in a way which is designed to avoid unnecessary and undesirable duplication of work, and to co-operate in joint activities where this produces advantages to the co-operators. [More…]
Although we have failed in the case of Dr Bogie and Mrs Chandler, and also in the case of Mr Dalton, an atomic scientist, I believe that my claim can be proved clearly when one considers the case of an unidentified body that was found on the Somerton beach in South Australia on 1st December 1948. [More…]
Because of the very great advancement in atomic power generation, which advancement is continuing and accelerating, to a stage at which it is predicted that in most advanced countries future power installations will be solely atomic, would not the authorities in Tasmania be advised to pause before committal to further large scale hydro-electric generation projects, which some people claim are destructive of tourist assets in Tasmania, an aspect in which the Minister is particularly interested? [More…]
I have every confidence that not only is conservation being well attended to in this development but also the scientific aspect of atomic energy overtaking hydro-electric energy is being well understood by the HydroElectric Commission in Tasmania. [More…]
Immediate^ly it was discovered that there was not a secret clause that gave Immunity to breaches of the law by foreign agents we had introduced into this country the International Organisations (Privileges and Immunities) Act which applies to the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international agencies. [More…]
We have reached the position where regulations have extended the Act to cover employees of the Atomic Energy Agency in Australia. [More…]
Whilst those employed by the Atomic Energy Agency have been in Australia for many years it has been only as a result of the publication of questions and answers that we found that no immunity had been given to those working for foreign powers within Australia if they breach our laws. [More…]
But until such a time as the regulation applies in Australia if there is a breach of Australian law by any foreign agent working for the Atomic Energy Agency- [More…]
Are there persons from foreign countries in Australia by arrangement with the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]
I am informed that the only persons from foreign countries at present in Australia by arrangement with the International Atomic Energy Agency are 2 Indonesians who hold fellowships under the United Nations Development Programme, for which the International Atomic Energy Agency made the necessary arrangements. [More…]
Two safeguards inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Australia from 15th to 23rd April 1971 to inspect safeguarded material supplied by the United Stales to Australia under the agreement for co-operation concerning the civil uses of atomic energy in force between Australia and the United States. [More…]
Has the Department of National Development designed and implemented a more effective code to combat water pollution of rivers adjacent to mining operations, in view of the neglect shown by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in polluting the East Finniss River; if so, how can the Minister justify the gross water pollution that has been inflicted on the Dampier Archipelago by the operations of the Hamersley Iron group mining operations? [More…]
This threatens early involvement of Australia in any future war fought with guided rockets and atomic bombs. [More…]
What is the Australian-United StatesInternational Atomic Energy Agency Trilateral Safeguards Agreement. [More…]
and (2) The full title of the Agreement is: Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America for the Application of Safeguards.’ [More…]
United States of America, Australia and the International Atomic Energy Agency on safeguard officers visiting Australia. [More…]
An aggressor could not help itself in the taking over of us by closing down the Pine Gap establishment or obliterating an Omega station, but it could take us over if the hearts and minds of the people were crushed as a result of the dropping of atomic bombs over Sydney, “Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. [More…]
During the 1970-71 financial year a further programme of work at Rum Jungle was undertaken, under the authority of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, on the control of pollution and general rehabilitation of the area. [More…]
Because of the balance of terror which has been presented to us by the atomic weapons, those horrific instruments that man has devised, it is likely that major wars will be postponed for some time to come. [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…]
Does the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1966 require that the discovery, of a ‘prescribed substance’ be reported, at the time of discovery, to the Minister? [More…]
Is it the practice for the report of the discovery of a ‘prescribed substance’ to be made to the Minister through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission maintains correspondence with mining and prospecting companies which are exploring for, or have made discoveries of, uranium throughout Australia. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission received the usual reports and officers of the Commission visited Nabarlek on several occasions and were shown the mineralisation found incosteans cut across the prospect, radiometric surveys, gelogical maps and drill cores. [More…]
Officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission accompanied some of these visitors to Nabarlek and/or had discussions with them after their visits. [More…]
In addition the Government requires that the material and its fissile derivatives will be subject to international Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]
This indicated 3 necessary strategic considerations - decentralisation of the population, adequate civil defence expenditure and preparation for the day when Australia could make its own atomic warheads. [More…]
in fairness to the Russians 1 would say that in the matter of atomic testing they have played the game just as much as the United States or any other country. [More…]
If a situation should arise in which atomic power is used there would be no defence against it so our expenditure would have been wasted. [More…]
I noted also that Senator Cavanagh made the comment that the Soviet Union was playing the game as much as the United States was with regard to atomic testing. [More…]
the Deputy Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The first one concerns the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the current methods of controlling wastage from the Lucas Heights establishment into the Georges River. [More…]
As you would know, Mr Temporary Chairman, from your activities when you were Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution, the Atomic ^Energy Commission’s claims about safeguards have not always proved correct. [More…]
With this in mind I want to refer to the existing controls that the Atomic Energy Commission has on wastage from Lucas Heights. [More…]
As I understand from evidence given to the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution, there is a tripartite observation group consisting of the Atomic Energy Commission people, officers of the New South Wales Department of Health and, I think, officers of the New South Wales :Maritime Services Board keeping an eye on what is happening at Lucas Heights. [More…]
In North America, as I think the Minister would be aware, there is a tendency to have other people with equal technical know-how monitoring these readings and not to leave it to the atomic research people. [More…]
I do not have representatives from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to advise me today. [More…]
1 will seek the honourable, senator’s indulgence and ask him to communicate his question to the Minister for National Development who no doubt would approach the Atomic Energy Commission to obtain the answer for which the honourable senator has asked. [More…]
In the debate on the estimates for another department I referred to the rape of the environment by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the Finniss River region. [More…]
It was left holding the baby for the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the laser beam delivery system of stand-off bombing has been designed specifically for the delivery of atomic bombs? [More…]
It has its atomic energy reactors for peaceful purposes. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Air: Is it a fact that the laser beam delivery system for stand-off bombing has been specifically designed for atomic bombs? [More…]
All Japan’s statements about not wanting any military forces and about not wanting atomic power is sheer talk. [More…]
My Department has no knowledge of any laser beam delivery system which has been designed specifically for the delivery of atomic bombs and considers it unlikely that existing systems would be used for this purpose. [More…]
The Agreement, which will enter into force later this year after it has been considered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, will facilitate co-operation both at the governmental and the industry level. [More…]
Because of the growth of industrial employment with the Commonwealth in departments and instrumentalities including the Departments of Works, the Navy and Supply, the Post Office, the Commonwealth Railways and the Atomic Energy Commission, the situation today has changed. [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…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is looking into ways and means of further rehabilitation. [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 Committee (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…]
formulating its monitoring programmesthe Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee takes note of the technical results and recommendations of a number of international organisations. [More…]
on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and the United Kingdom Medical Research Council. [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. [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 conducting sampling and providing materials from Australia for analysis. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for National Development: Has Sir Philip Baxter, former Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, been retained by the Government in a consultative or advisory capacity subsequent to his retirement? [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…]
Field studies are a ‘so being undertaken by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and Water Resources Branch of the, Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
the Government in the Senate knowledge of the use of United States manufactured 15,000 lb bombs in Vietnam, each bomb reputed to be able to pulverise city areas of 1 square mile and to be equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? [More…]
If he has such knowledge would he propose to the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Minister take action, through the appropriate United Nations body, to have these barbarous weapons, along with the atomic bomb, banned? [More…]
The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology cooperates with the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee in the monitoring of radio active fallout in Australia. [More…]
These are sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna for analysis and are published in its technical reports series 117. [More…]
Does the reported presence of surveyors at the Jervis Bay atomic power station site mean that the Government is to recommence construction despite the serious doubts about the massive expenditure involved? [More…]
by leave - The report of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee on the Biological aspects of the Fallout in Australia from French Nuclear Weapons Explosions in the Pacific, JuneAugust 1971, which was distributed in printed form recently, falls into two parts. [More…]
3 of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee on the levels of fallout over Australia from nuclear weapons tested by France iri 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 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 weapon tests with the doses inevitably received by the community from natural background radiation. [More…]
of France and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are undertaking a joint feasibility study of the technical and economic aspects of constructing a uranium enrichment plant in Australia using gaseous diffusion technology. [More…]
Have private mining exploration operations been prohibited in the Deaf Adder Valley and Jim Jim Falls regions of the Northern Territory; if so, will the Australian Atomic Energy Commission also be prohibited from prospecting in this area. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission will not carry out prospecting activities in these areas. [More…]
Since the Atomic Energy Commission is a subsidiary of the National Development Ministry why was this ministry given inflated committee membership when the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was excluded. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Northern Territory Administration had already commenced a study related to water quality and hydrology in the area. [More…]
Is Australia currently negotiating with France to arrange a treaty for co-operation in the peaceful use of atomic energy; if so, is it the Government’s intention that the treaty should be in similar terms to that signed in February between Japan and Australia. [More…]
On 16th June 1969, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the French Commissariat a 1’Energie Atomique concluded an agreement to collaborate in the peaceful uses of atomic energy. [More…]
Has the former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Phillip Baxter, been retained by the government in any consultative or advisory capacity subsequent to his retirement. [More…]
I recall that at one time I placed a notice of motion on the notice paper to disallow a regulation which, under some agreement between Australia, the United States of America and Great Britain, gave immunity to those associated with an atomic energy inquiry. [More…]
After a series of questions and negotiations with the Minister I obtained the knowledge that the immunity did not apply to those to whom I thought it applied but to persons associated with conferences which might be held in Australia under an international agreement dealing with the peaceful use of atomic energy. [More…]
Representatives intending to attend that seminar which was held under the auspices of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and arranged by the United Nations organisation attracted, broadly speaking, the same measure of diplomatic immunity as an ambassador. [More…]
I think we satisfied him that it was appropriate that visitors coming here to attend a seminar relating to atomic energy at the instance of the United Nations organisation should have that diplomatic immunity. [More…]
It is my recollection that those who entered Australia under the regulation which related to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission conference were provided with immunities. [More…]
Two main points were raised by you concerning the work of the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee which reports to rae. [More…]
The Australian representatives at the conference were officers from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of National Development and the Paris based offices of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry. [More…]
The document on which these news items are based is the 1972 report to the United Nations General Assembly of the Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, which has the rather extraordinary alphabetical name UNSCEAR. [More…]
Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Government of Japan and the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia for the Application of Agency Safeguards in respect of the Agreement between those Governments for Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, signed at Vienna on 28th July 1972. [More…]
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, drawn up at Vienna on 1st July 1959. [More…]
An Amendment of Article VI of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [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…]
Some of his decisions at home and abroad, particularly in times of war, will be forever disputed, including his decision to use atomic weapons against Japan during the Second World War. [More…]
Surely we realise today that because of the atomic bomb the possibilities of such wars are thus far diminished. [More…]
As he has indicated that the French Government was good enough to give him television time to explain the attitude of Australia to French nuclear testing, will the Attorney-General direct Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, the Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, immediately to request that Government to give him radio time in China to express Australia’s deep opposition to the continued testing by China of atomic devices? [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…]
I refer to a matter to which I have referred before and to which I shall refer again and again in the Gaitskell tradition, namely, the bungling that went on not so long long ago during the tenure of office of an inept Minister for the Interior when there was a failure to discipline the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the way in which it polluted the Finniss River with industrial waste. [More…]
Despite my cry for justifiable ministerial or departmental vengeance nobody ever disciplined the Atomic Energy Commission for its scandalous behaviour. [More…]
Honourable senators will know it was only after incessant probing that we were able to get from the Atomic Energy Commission the sorry story of its deliberate - I use that word in the fullest sense - pollution of the river. [More…]
To show honourable senators how bipartisan I am, I have indicted on the one instance the Lake George private enterprise mining complex and in the other a government organisation, namely, the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I hope that we will see no more of the terrible happenings that the Atomic Energy Commission has condoned. [More…]
if not more vital than, the protection of Australian citizens from atomic fallout or anything else. [More…]
It concerns the subject of man-made nuclear fallout and relates to the tabled reports of the National Radiation Advisory Committee, the Academy of Science and the Atomic Weapons Testing Committee and specifically to certain information which I have sought to obtain, very unsuccessfully, from the Minister. [More…]
Is the Government aware of the facts contained in the report of the Atomic Weapons Test Safety Committee which was tabled by Senator Murphy last week and which refers to fallout over Australia from nuclear weapons tested by the French in Polynesia during June and July 1972? [More…]
Senator McManus has put forward part of the case that obviously will be presented against us, that is, that Britain and Australia collaborated in the conducting of atomic tests many years ago. [More…]
But we know a lot more about pollution today, particularly atomic pollution. [More…]
I do not believe that even the previous Government would have allowed atomic bombs to be exploded in Australia if it had had the knowledge that it has now. [More…]
In the early days of atomic research people went to gaol because they believed that the communist countries of the world should be given the same information as was developed in the. [More…]
Is it a fact that Sir Philip Baxter was Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission For 15 years from 1957 to 1972? [More…]
As the representative in this chamber of the Minister for Health, I can say to the honourable senator that I understand that Sir Philip Baxter was Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for some 15 years. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Science aware of a recent statement by the Premier of Queensland that negotiations are proceeding between the Queensland Government and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the construction of a uranium enrichment plant in central Queensland? [More…]
Is he aware that Professor Linus Pauling now says that personal X-rays are as dangerous to Australians as the French atomic tests? [More…]
Will the Government review the stupidity of its present action at the International Court of Justice if it is a fact that French Atomic tests are no more harmful than personal X-rays. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Atomic Test Safety Committee with Professor Sir Ernest Titterton and the National Radiation Advisory Committee with Sir Philip Baxter have been scrapped recently by the Whitlam Government? [More…]
We should be developing very quickly our ability to produce atomic or nuclear energy, and certainly in this regard we should be looking to those far : outlying areas of Australia where it will be enormously expensive to take fuel energy by means of a national grid pipeline. [More…]
For example, there was the Snowy Mountains scheme for hydro electricity, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for atomic energy and we had the various resources of the Department of National Development in which information which was required was collated. [More…]
Also, proposals, have been advanced for the creation of an atomic energy power station. [More…]
Professor Messel, now special adviser to the Attorney-General, was reported in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ of 16 October 1953 as saying of the then atomic explosions at Woomera: [More…]
I mentioned the other day in this place - and Senator Carrick adverted to this today - that what we knew then about pollution, and particularly atomic pollution, is nothing when compared With what we know today. [More…]
The situation is, as I freely admitted the other day, that this is the sort of argument which will be used against us because we did acquiesce in atomic explosions some 20 years ago. [More…]
Is the Minister assisting the Prime Minister aware that both France and China opposed a motion which was moved at the World Health Organisation by Australia and which condemned atomic tests in the atmosphere? [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…]
Will the Government take into consideration the fact that Noumea is a colony and that its people have no control over the decision in regard to atomic explosions but, on the contrary, Noumea is one of the Pacific Islands for which Australia says it is intervening at The Hague? [More…]
Mr Chou En-lai exhibited considerable resentment and said that China would continue to conduct atomic tests in the same way as previously. [More…]
as shown by reference to the various reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, including that of 1972, for many countries there are no fall-out data at all. [More…]
The Attorney-General more than any other man withheld from this Parliament, until we dragged them out of him, fact after valuable fact on nuclear and atomic tests. [More…]
The simple fact is that if this Government were, like the Opposition, sincere in believing that atomic testing is damaging to humanity wherever it occurs, it would realise quite clearly that tens of millions - nay, hundreds of millions - of Chinese near Lop Nor in the Sinkiang Province and the Chinese and Russians around them are in numbers far more greatly subjected to danger to their lives than those said to be affected by the Mururoa Atoll tests. [More…]
We have har1 thunderings about the atomic tests in the Pacific. [More…]
Chou En-lai declared that China sympathised with and supported the actions of France in exploding atomic bombs. [More…]
Such attempts become irrelevant anyway when it is acceptable to destroy whole cities, with ordinary people in them, as was done in Japan by the use of atomic bombs and as was done at other times. [More…]
For anybody to cast aspersions on the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in response to this proposal, to me is unworthy of the country of the cause. [More…]
We were at the stage where we condemned atomic weapons tests right around the world, underground or in the atmosphere. [More…]
What they are doing now in the Pacific is working on an atomic fusion trigger. [More…]
I would say that when Mr Whitlam gave that answer he exploded completely any pretence that he and his Government were actuated by humanitarian motives in opposing atomic testing. [More…]
Therefore it is all right for atomic fallout to be scattered over Chinese, North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, Siberians or Japanese. [More…]
The objection of this Government is to atomic fallout being scattered over or near Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) went to China at a time when China was exploding atomic bombs which threatened the welfare of people all around it. [More…]
I think the proper attitude for the Labor Government to adopt would be to say that it will break off its present relations, particularly from a trade point of view, with China until China promises to cease atomic testing. [More…]
Bad as some of these border squabbles are, the day that a Middle East power- be it Israel on one hand, or Syria or Algeria on the other- is let loose with atomic weapons, I do not know what will happen. [More…]
I have checked them also from the publications of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In a surface atomic explosion, heavy activated debris and fragments are tom from the soil and incorporated in the fireball by fusion or vaporisation. [More…]
He went on to say: ‘But the Chinese are more justified in going atomic’. [More…]
He then started to defend the Chinese for going atomic, for building bombs and exploding bombs. [More…]
So much has it been unwilling to accept the advice of its scientists on the National Radiation Advisory Committee and the Atomic Weapons Tests Safety Committee that in order to remove the necessity of having to listen to their advice it has abolished those 2 bodies and is reforming them, leaving off those scientists who do not give it information of a politically satisfactory nature. [More…]
What he does not tell us, for example, is the experience of those workmen who have been working at the atomic power stations in England and who have been exposed to massive amounts of fallout. [More…]
With every breath in my body what I am trying to say is that we should stop atomic fallout. [More…]
I asked the Parliamentary Library to produce for me a paper on the results that have been proven following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]
What I want to plead is that the Government should now present to this Parliament a White Paper setting out in true perspective the whole basic background of the ordinary natural fallout and of peoples exposure to it; the elective fallouts from altitude or travel, luminous watches and X- rays; the elective fallouts if we are to have civil atomic power stations; the elective fallouts if we are to bring in civil atomic ships- and this will be real in the future because of the energy crisisand also the fallouts from atom testing. [More…]
We with our enormous resources are compared with countries surrounded by major military nations that have recourse to atomic weapons, as many nations in Europe have today. [More…]
Pursuant to section 3 1 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…]
The other day we aligned ourselves with China when, although China had exploded and indicated that it would continue to explode atomic bombs, we announced that we had made a treaty with China under which China, in our eyes, would be the most favoured nation. [More…]
Has this Government thought that by the time we may have got around to this- not having done any homework at all and not having, I suspect, even consulted the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in Australia and certainly having no blueprint- and that by the time we had got another of these expensive situations like the natural gas pipeline but which will be twelve times as dear, the world supply probably will be in glut? [More…]
In any case the need for producing atomic energy by fission will have passed and the fusion method will have been introduced. [More…]
Its purpose, of course, is to abolish the full time position of executive member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and to substitute the part-time position of member. [More…]
I do not wish to delay the business of the Senate nor to make a major debate on this matter but as we are referring to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission I wish to make some brief remarks. [More…]
But above all, because I am talking about the Australian Atomic Energy Commission I pose this question and we need to have some very accurate answers in the months and years ahead if we are to make the right judgments: Will we have to use our uranium either sparingly because we have to conserve it or freely because we do not have to conserve it? [More…]
Apart from commending the Bill I call upon the Government in terms of the energy crisis to use to the full the magnificent resources of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
It may not be fashionable to talk about France in this era of atomic testing, but at least it can be said that no matter what type of government has been in power in Francewhether it be a popular front government, the De Gaulle Government or any other political combination- little areas like Martinique and Noumea have had representatives in the Chamber of Deputies in Paris. [More…]
On one memorable occasion when that Committee was taking evidence in Darwin from representatives of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission- a body for which I do not have a lot of timeevidence was given that was very close to perjury. [More…]
I accepted that as a compliment that I had pinpointed the inadequacies of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Committee further reports that it was unable to complete its examination of the Particulars of Certain Proposed Expenditure in respect of the Year ending on 30 June 1974 for the Department of Minerals and Energy, Division 890, Subdivision 1.- Plant and Equipment- Item 04 (purchase of pipes and associated equipment for the Moomba-Sydney Pipeline) $54,000,000; Sub-division 2-(for expenditure under the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act) $13,100,000; Sub-division 3- (for expenditure under the Atomic Energy Act) $1,388,000; 4-(for expenditure under the Pipeline Authority Act) $107,000,000; and Division 891,-Other Services Item 01. [More…]
They relate to such important matters as the appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission, the Pipeline Authority and the Moomba to Sydney pipeline. [More…]
That at the moment the Government is providing fifty times larger funds for research into atomic energy than for research into solar energy; that, on the other hand, latest scientific research indicates that energy production from the atom has become obsolete and undesirable. [More…]
We suggest that the ratio of Government funding be reversed- away from atomic in favour of solar energy. [More…]
The Russians already have, as we all know, atomic submarines in the area. [More…]
We have had the spectacle of certain trade unions having an argument with France over atomic testing. [More…]
Where is the program spelt out by the Minister for Minerals and Energy to co-ordinate and urge work by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
If I understand the position correctly, the Minister has virtually ignored the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I do not say this to excuse in any way the atmospheric use of atomic bombs to which I am opposed. [More…]
What have we heard about uranium, apart from the abysmal silence of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) with regard to the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
It has no policy on atomic energy development or experimentation to determine cost benefits of uranium enrichment or the relative merits of nuclear reactors of the conventional type and breeder reactors, or on atomic energy in the fusion area of the future. [More…]
We have survived world wars over the generations but because of the advance of technology and the splitting of the atom- things have never been the same in the fields of defence and aggression since the day they successfully split the atom- we will not survive another world war involving the use of atomic weapons. [More…]
It is all right to say that we can keep out of these things but when super-powers are confronting each other, fighting and using atomic weapons, we with the small nations of the world will become mere pawns in the game and we will not be masters of our own destiny. [More…]
The first things that are always looked at in any arms limitation are atomic weapons. [More…]
The first thing we do in looking at the Indian Ocean is to say that atomic weapons should be excluded. [More…]
We do not want the great powers to come in with atomic weapons. [More…]
One can sum up what he said by saying: ‘Atomic weapons are terrible things, therefore we do not need any defence or foreign policy’. [More…]
The obvious thing which this Government overlooks is that because of the balance of terror it is unlikely in the near future that atomic weapons will be used at all. [More…]
When we started our inquiry we found that pollution was rampant in the Finniss River as a result of the activities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
When Senator Davidson, the late Senator Ridley and I went to the Northern Territory we were able to expose river pollution which was caused by Baxter and the Australian Atomic Commission. [More…]
I think that with the complexities of government these senators would be able to move around the Northern Territory and expose more of this shocking criminal folly that was committed by Baxter and the minions of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Recently we have seen the invoking of a dormant provision in the 20-year- old Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I lay on the table the text of the agreement between Australia and the International Atomic Energy Agency on the application of safeguards in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. [More…]
The top 25 oil corporations control 84 per cent of oil, 72 per cen t 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…]
That the Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations as contained in Statutory Rules 1974 No. [More…]
39, and made under the Atomic Energy Act 1 953- 1 973 be disallowed. [More…]
The power under which the Minister seeks to operate under these Statutory Rules is contained in the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [More…]
The object of the Act and the wide powers given under it were, of course, at that time dictated very much by the strategic character of uranium as to its use in the production of atomic weapons and the great concern which was held at that time in respect of that subject. [More…]
Those powers are quite adequate and they relate specifically to uranium in the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act to which I have referred. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission had been set up to supervise generally the prospecting for and mining of uranium, and so forth. [More…]
In that respect, it was relying on the general ownership power contained in the Atomic Energy Act to which I have referred. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Senate- perhaps Senator Durack has already done so- to the heading ‘ Reasons for Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations’. [More…]
I would hope the industry could collectively develop policies which it could suggest to the Opposition and to the Government and hopefully develop an economic enterprise which will preserve Australia’s reserves through into the day when we must inevitably rely heavily on atomic energy. [More…]
This is the situation we find today when many companies, particularly in the uranium area, are unable to operate from a research and developmental point of view and unable to continue drilling in this extremely important exploit area, purely because they have no licence through regulations which are part of the Atomic Energy Act and which are related to security situations. [More…]
Because of the exploration that is required, because of the investigations in the field of atomic energy, because of the technical developments and because of the development of breeder reactors, it is fairly well and fairly certainly recognised that the market for uranium will exist for a relatively short period. [More…]
These regulations are based on the wartime powers of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I support the motion for the disallowance of the regulations under the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973. [More…]
That consideration of General Business be postponed until after the conclusion of the debate on the motion for disallowance of the Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations or at 4 p.m., whichever is the earlier. [More…]
I do not make the accusation that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission somehow created the serious radioactive waste pollution in the Finniss River, but there was some secondary waste pollution. [More…]
I would have thought that he would be conversant with the references to enrichment which are contained in the report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Obviously, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is keeping fully abreast of developments in this area overseas. [More…]
To this end holders of approved contracts for the export of uranium from deposits in the Northern Territory were, earlier this year, offered access to designated deposits owned by the Commonwealth pursuant to section 35 of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
In 1953 the then Menzies Government introduced a Bill for an Act for the stated purpose of bringing together in one piece of legislation all matters associated with the provision of atomic energy. [More…]
In doing so that Government, through its responsible Minister in each chamber, expressed the belief that it had produced a fair and powerful piece of legislative machinery to shape the future of Australia in this important field of uranium and atomic energy. [More…]
That legislation now stands on the statute book as the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Among other things Part III of the Act lays down provisions for the control of substances of atomic energy significance. [More…]
In essence this part of the Atomic Energy Act reenacted the provisions of the Atomic Energy (Control of Materials) Act 1946 which was amended by the Menzies Government in 1952. [More…]
Against that background it is incorrect to claim that the making of the Atomic Energy Regulations- they are the regulations we are debating- is in any way improper. [More…]
I agree with his comments about the lack of leadership that has been shown by the Opposition in this area of mineral resources, atomic energy and uranium deposits. [More…]
The Government’s action is likely to bring severe hardship and possible ruin to sections of a basic primary industry and I feel the situation I have outlined makes a mockery not only of their earlier promises but shows in their true light the sham and hypocrisy of prominent Ministers who protest loudly about atomic explosions whilst they continue to encourage and assist imports from countries concerned. [More…]
Progress in atomic energy engineering is such that we will not be ready in 10 years to take over with atomic energy, but if we went solar, particularly in the house hold needs area, we would have some chance of taking up to 25 per cent of our fossil fuel requirements. [More…]
Why spend $ 18m on atomic energy which we do not need and only $0.2m on solar energy? [More…]
why is it that one hears always about the developments of atomic energy in the United States and Europe, rather than of solar power? [More…]
I know that when Dr Cairns was in Peking he did not hesitate to question the attitude of mainland China to atomic explosions. [More…]
At that time 2 American senators said that they would not agree to the lend-lease arrangements unless Great Britain surrendered her right to decide how the atomic bomb would be used, a bomb which it spent 780m in developing. [More…]
The question of atomic testing we have taken up with everybody that we thought we could possibly have any influence on. [More…]
What special qualities does he bring to the Attorney-General’s staff, what are his duties and what will be his additional remuneration now that he has been appointed a member of the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
So much are his services valued by the Government that the proposal to appoint him to the Atomic Energy Commission was made by the redoubtable Mr Connor. [More…]
The report stated, at page 2, that the Committee was awaiting an answer relating to uranium exploration and development by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Mr Thomas; That is interest on moneys borrowed by the Atomic Energy Commission on overdraft in order to pay for the first instalment on the shares which the Commission has purchased in Mary Kathleen Uranium pursuant to an underwriting agreement between the Commission and the Mary Kathleen company. [More…]
So we might therefore expect in the next Estimates that we examine for the Atomic Energy Commission a bid for the money to pay for the shares? [More…]
He is one of those persons that wants to make atomic bombs in Australia, as Senator Poyser reminds me. [More…]
One overseas insurance company says that as a result of experiences in recent years a marked increase has occurred in the use of atomic energy for purposes ranging from the generation of electric power to the manufacture of weapons of war. [More…]
As evidence of this I give the following examples: We would have abandoned the uranium exploration ofthe Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Is he still a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Pipeline Authority and the petroleum and minerals company set up by the Government? [More…]
b) Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]
Sir Lenox Hewitt was appointed to be a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for a period of seven years from 1 1 January 1973. [More…]
One of the very first acts of this Government was to sell out the Australian people’s interests through the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in the Ranger project and to sell out our interests in Mary Kathleen. [More…]
There is only one exception to that, and that is atomic energy which originates from the earth’s interior. [More…]
To get back to the subject matter of my speech, the only alternative source of energy that has been put forward as an answer to the world ‘s energy problem, due to the ever increasing demand for power, happens to be atomic energy. [More…]
Australian Atomic Energy Commission, has suggested that $ 12,000m profit is involved in the uranium resources of our country. [More…]
It concerns the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and its activities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is concentrating on the provision of services to industry with the support of the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and, even more importantly, with the support of a vast range of industrial and other agencies throughout Australia. [More…]
1 talked to officials of the Atomic Energy Commission and to trade officials. [More…]
There is the Air Services Agreement, the Commerce Agreement of 1957, the Agreement for the Exchange of International Money Orders, the Fisheries Agreement, the Taxation Agreement, the Agreement for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, the Agreement for the Protection of Migratory Birds and the Cultural Exchange Agreement. [More…]
1 ) Have tenders been called for a company to take over the exploration activities to which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is committed to by its agreements with certain mining companies. [More…]
1 ) The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has invited offers from Australian interests for the purchase of its beneficial interest in a uranium exploration joint venture with certain companies in the Ngalia Basin in the Northern Territory. [More…]
1969, Senate Hansard, 12 April 1972) details were given of rehabilitation work carried out to that time by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I turn finally to division 436- Australian Atomic Energy Commission under subdivision 1 of which, relating to the Atomic Energy Act, an amount of $574,000 is sought for ‘Running expenses’. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Science possess up to date information concerning a proposed reactor to replace HIFAR at the Lucas Heights establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
-Mr President, when Senator Keeffe asked his question I actually thought, as he did, that responsibility for the Atomic Energy Commission lay with the Minister for Science. [More…]
This estimate is based on the report ‘Uranium- Resources, Production and Demand’ published jointly by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency in December 1975. [More…]
Except for Australia and the United States, the estimates for Western World uranium resources contained in the 1974-75 Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are based on an earlier NEA/IAEA report and are, therefore, not comparable to the above estimates. [More…]
Does the Minister possess up to date information concerning a proposed reactor to replace HIFAR at the Lucas Heights establishment of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
As reported in its 1974-75 Annual Report, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is making a detailed study of the Australian requirements for research reactor irradiation facilities to the end of this century. [More…]
I do not blame private enterprise but I do blame Sir Phillip Baxter, former chief of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I was at one time on a committee under Senator Davidson which was dealing with water pollution and I gave the Atomic Energy people a bit of a gruelling. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]
He would be responsible for determining whether the final report could be made available, as I understand that the final report on the accident will be forwarded to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which comes within his portfolio. [More…]
I know of no substance in the report that there is anything unusual about the growth of sponges at that depth or that it may have been the result of some reaction from atomic waste fall-out. [More…]
Samples were crushed, split and pulverised to -200 mesh and analysed for Calcium using the atomic absorption spectrometer. [More…]
-I have a series of questions which relate to division 436- Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Did not the Commonwealth of Australia, together with Canada, become a party to the Combined Development Agency for the purpose of providing atomic power? [More…]
The matter now seems to be one of engineering concern in determining the methods of cover, but the Atomic Energy Commission has agreed to act in the capacity of consultant to the South Australian Government. [More…]
It said that Sir John Hill, the Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, described the reports as a figment of the imagination. [More…]
In his written reply the Minister for Health said that a full report would be made available to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and that any further questions I may have on the matter should be directed to the Minister for National Resources. [More…]
I now ask the Minister whether the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has yet received the report and, if so, whether it is the intention of the Government to table it in the Parliament. [More…]
Total expenditure by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) on research relating to nuclear energy amounted to approximately $ 16.7m in 1975-76. [More…]
The South Australian Government has sought and received technical advice from the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that a spokesman for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission has said that this is highly unlikely? [More…]
I am reminded of an unanswered question that I placed on the notice paper seeking to determine who were the guilty men in the Australian Atomic Commission years ago whose action resulted in the despoiling and ravaging of the Finnis River. [More…]
The Bill has been amended to ensure that, where the Commonwealth conducts the mining under the Atomic Energy Act then it will also be required to negotiate fair terms and conditions. [More…]
It seems that despite our inability as individuals, or even perhaps collectively, to find solutions to these problems there has to be a greater emphasis in our contribution as a nation towards such agreements as the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
This is contained in an article by Mr Bernard L. Cohen in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. [More…]
Dr Alder of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission advocates sending the plutonium to the sun in rockets. [More…]
I say unhesitatingly that it was our vigilance that exposed the super-hypocritical evidence given to our committee by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in relation to the mistakes- I emphasise the word ‘mistakes’- that it made on the little league Rum Jungle operation. [More…]
It is significant that earlier this year I asked what had been done to discipline the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
1 ) Was any disciplinary action imposed on any officer of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission following the gross pollution of the Finniss River in the Northern Territory due to a failure to control industrial wastes from Rum Jungle as referred to the Senate Select Committee ‘s report on Water Pollution. [More…]
Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission contribute to the payment for the environmental rehabilitation of this river. [More…]
If the Senate allows the extraction of uranium I do not think the bulk of the Australian population has got any confidence that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission can be trusted. [More…]
I am sure that when he speaks Senator Gietzelt will tell the Senate that we could never get anybody to monitor the mistakes of the Atomic Energy Commission, and that is one of the problems that we fear. [More…]
One of the proudest moments of my life was when I came out of the Darwin Court House and cattlemen who would always vote for the National Country Party said to me: ‘Senator, we admired you for taking on the Atomic Energy Commission’. [More…]
We saw the Atomic Energy Commission despoil the river; yet these are the people who will be the custodians of uranium mining. [More…]
He said that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission cannot be trusted. [More…]
Page 66: Considering all the information available to the Commission on this matter, it appears that estimates of potential Australian sales of uranium up to 19S5; presented by the Australian Uranium Producers Forum, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Pancontinental Mining Ltd, are probably too high. [More…]
Page 151: A Commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission has stated that the development of a blackmarket in plutonium is likely . [More…]
Nobody likes a war, but let us face it: Whether one is killed by a bayonet, by a bullet, by TNT, by napalm or by an atomic bomb, one is dead. [More…]
Nothing we will do in Australia will prevent nations from making atomic weapons. [More…]
Why on earth a terrorist, other than for prestige reasons, would want to get hold of plutonium and try to make an atomic bomb has got me beaten, when he has more likelihood of blowing himself up. [More…]
Yet we hear all this silly rot about terrorists trying to make atomic weapons, albeit crude ones. [More…]
On the subject of the Aboriginal right of veto in relation to mining, I point out that the Commonwealth Government will still have power to mine Aboriginal lands under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Consent is required to mining under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
This section does not apply in relation to an occupation or use of land that is authorised by the Atomic Energy Act 1953 or any other Act authorising mining for minerals and this section does not prejudice the operation of the Atomic Energy A ct1 95 3 or that other Act, as the case may be. [More…]
-Sub-clause 14 (4) limits the Commonwealth’s powers under the Atomic Energy Act to the sections onmining. [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…]
Under clause 45, where consent to mining is withheld only because negotiations on the terms of agreement with the applicant mining company, or with the Commonwealth where the Atomic Energy Act is involved, break down the Minister may appoint an arbitrator. [More…]
On the basis of information published in the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for 1975-76, western world resources in the reasonably assured category recoverable at up to$US30 per lbU3Og are estimated at 1.84 million tonnes of uranium. [More…]
Would the Australian Atomic Energy Commission be able to utilise the specialist knowledge in AMDEL in connection with the exploration for uranium, and the development for production of yellow cake, from any fund. [More…]
Is the Australian Atomic Energy Commission establishing a new section to service their exploration arm. [More…]
The main users of AMDEL ‘s services under these arrangements have been the CSIRO, the Bureau of Mineral Resources and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission; the Commonwealth Government guarantee has been allocated between these parties in the proportion 6:5:1 respectively. [More…]
and (7) In line with the Government’s announced policy, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is withdrawing from exploration for uranium. [More…]
1 ) What has been the total annual expenditure of the International Atomic Energy Commission over each of the past ten years? [More…]
The soil on which the reactor stood was checked and found not to be contaminated beyond a safe level according to International Atomic Energy Agency standards. [More…]
The South Australian Government sought and received technical advice from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The best means Australia has of defence is not by buying arms, not by buying cruisers, not by talking about having atomic bombs, but by its foreign policy. [More…]
I want to take up further the point raised by Senator Georges about a tripartite agreement or an international agreement relating to atomic weapons and biological materials. [More…]
But Dr Richards gives a history and some proof of the theory that during the investigation of atomic expansion after the Second World War a tripartite agreement was entered into at Quebec between Canada, Great Britain and the United States of America for the exchange of information on atomic energy, chemical and biological warfare and rocketry. [More…]
This agreement related to atomic bomb research and development. [More…]
United States, the United Kingdom and Canada relating to atomic energy which was signed in Washington on 15 [More…]
1 ) Is there a structure at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s Lucas Heights establishment referred to as Building 24. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission, for which I have ministerial responsibility, has not imported any plutonium outside these Regulations. [More…]
In October 1975 the Australian Atomic Energy Commission lodged an application for general marketing of technetium labelled stannous pyrophosphate for use as a bone imaging agent in radiology. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission was informed of this in writing by the Department in November 1 976. [More…]
Are only 10 pounds of plutonium required to manufacture an atomic bomb having a substantial destructive power. [More…]
Yes, if weapons grade plutonium is used; but the weight of plutonium required for an atomic explosive is a function of the isotonic composition of the plutonium used. [More…]
Ranger Peko-Wallsend Ltd and Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd (Note: in relation to this project the then Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the 2 companies on 28 October 1975 which provided for a joint venture arrangement between the companies and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
They could involve a wide range of Commonwealth departments’ such as the Department of Overseas Trade, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Department of Defence, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Primary Industry, the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Science, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and Radio Australia and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister investigated allegations of Australian Defence Department vehicles contaminated during atomic testing at Maralinga being disposed of in totally unacceptable ways. [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…]
The detailed safeguards arrangements to be undertaken by non-nuclear weapon states party to the Treaty are set out in the International Atomic Energy Agency document known as INFCIRC/153. [More…]
1 ) What is the total number of deformities and ‘monster’ births in Japan that are related to the two atomic bomb explosions in 1945. [More…]
The information requested by the honourable senator is given in a Review of Thirty Years Study of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors published in September 1975 as a Supplement to the Journal of Radiation Research. [More…]
This publication reviews the results of the studies made by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (a joint enterprise of the Japanese and United States Governments), on the Japanese populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who incurred radiation exposure consequent to the atomic bomb explosions over those cities in August 1945. [More…]
The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission was dissolved in April 1975 to be replaced by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation which also operates as a joint enterprise of the Japanese and United States Governments to continue the surveillance of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. [More…]
With respect to developmental abnormalities in children born of mothers who were pregnant and in the two Japanese cities at the time of the atomic bomb explosions, the qualitative findings of studies on the children are that, compared with children not exposed to ionising radiation in utero, there was an increased incidence of reduction of height, weight and head and chest circumference measurements which persisted to maturity and an increased incidence of mental retardation. [More…]
About 13 per cent of a group of children irradiated in utero as a result of the atomic bomb explosions showed a mean reduction of head circumference at maturity of about 1 centimetre compared with an incidence of about 4 per cent of a like deformity in a control group of Japanese children in utero at the time of the explosions but not exposed to radiation doses. [More…]
On the other hand about 3 per cent of a group of children irradiated in utero as a’ result of the atomic bomb explosions showed evidence of some mental retardation compared with an incidence of about 1 per cent in the control group. [More…]
and (3) As already indicated in answer to part 1 of the question, in some of the children born of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the atomic bomb explosions, effects of a developmental character occurred. [More…]
On the basis of the studies carried out to-date there is no evidence of any effects on the genetic structure of the Japanese population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exposed to the atomic bomb explosions. [More…]
From data published by the International Atomic Energy Agency it has been estimated that at the most, nine lung cancer deaths per year may be attributed to the release of radon. [More…]
From available scientific data produced by recognised authorities like the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Australian Radiation Laboratory, the concentration of radon in the atmosphere will be increased by uranium production, by about one ten-thousandth of the concentration of radon naturally occurring in the atmosphere, due to its natural release from the earth ‘s surface. [More…]
To the contrary a number of reports have been produced in recent years, including the 1972 Report to the UN General Assembly on the ‘Effects of Atomic Radiation’; the 1976 OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Report on ‘Estimated Population Exposure from Nuclear Power Production and Other Radiation Sources’; the 1973 Report of the United States Environmental Protection Agency on ‘Environmental Analysis of the Uranium Fuel Cycle’; and the United Kingdom Royal Commission on ‘Environmental Pollution on Nuclear Power and the Environment’; all of which give objective and comprehensive assessments of the environmental and health impact of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
1) In the light of the recent Fox Inquiry finding that ‘if one accepts even the more conservative estimates of the development of peaceful nuclear energy programs in a large number of countries during the rest of this century, the costs of the application of safeguards by the International Atomic Energy Agency might increase to an extent where there would be opposition by member states to paying such a substantial bill’. [More…]
As regards other member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency, avoidance of the costs of safeguards would involve withdrawal from the IAEA which involves more than just safeguards aspects. [More…]
Does the Australian Atomic Energy Commission plan to prepare an evironmental impact statement under the provisions of the Environment Protections (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974, relating to its intention to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]
The provisions of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act would apply to any proposal by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to build a new reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Joint Coal Board, the Atomic Energy Commission, universities, etc., would compete for funds available through the Commission. [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…]
These cover: 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 reexport, 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 underway within the International Atomic Energy Agency on a new system of equality stringent safeguards to cover the entire nuclear industry in non-nuclear weapon states which are not parties to the Non-Proliferation 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 NonProliferation 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…]
However, the Court is understood to have ruled that while the plans for the plant conform to the laws governing reactor safety, the safeguards against the possible bursting of the pressure vessel did not reflect the latest available technology as required by the Atomic Law. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister aware that an atomic power station at Gundremmingen in West Germany shut down recently for an indefinite period because of an escape of radioactive steam? [More…]
The remainder went to the United Kingdom to replace uranium oxide borrowed from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority by Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd. [More…]
The honourable senator will be aware that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is within that Minister’s portfolio. [More…]
Recently I was in the United States and there I learnt from reading a publication called the National Enquirer, which was published in March this year, that since 1969 there had been 170 threats and acts of violence against atomic plants, causing millions of dollars of damage in the United States, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. [More…]
In the United Kingdom, where police do not carry guns, the Atomic Energy Authority has its own special constabulary to guard installations and the movement of specified nuclear materials such as plutonium. [More…]
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency in its monthly bulletin A tom, to which I have already alluded, gives a summary of a report produced by the European regional office of the World Health Organisation on ‘Health Implications of Nuclear Power production’. [More…]
According to a memorandum of understanding between the co-venturers, dated 28 October 1975, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) will provide 7214 per cent of the capital required for the project and Peko and Electrolytic Zinc 133/4 per cent each. [More…]
Today Russia, which is not a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty but which is a member of the international atomic energy agency, is working like fury with other countries to see what can be done to establish international banks to handle plutonium wastes which come as a result of fast breeders. [More…]
These dangers are far greater in a plutonium era than in normal atomic waste eras. [More…]
If a coastal state wishes to build an atomic bomb all it has to do is use uranium in sea water. [More…]
If the country which wishes to build an atomic bomb has shale rocks it has any quantity of uranium at a price. [More…]
One can go on in this area of terrorism: Individual groups do not need atomic bombs for terrorism. [More…]
It is more a national problem, particularly if atomic bombs are to be built. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to show me a country where a terrorist group can develop an atomic bomb from nuclear waste. [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 reexport, enrichment and reprocessing; physical security; safeguards provisions in contracts; and international and multilateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]
The Ford Foundation in America, a respected research establishment there, has said that crude atomic bombs can be manufactured in clandestine laboratories with relatively modest amounts of know-how. [More…]
The Canberra Times of 18 May 1977 reported a British newspaper which said that it had assembled all the parts of an atomic bomb except for the plutonium explosive, to demonstrate that terrorists could do the same. [More…]
We know that there are countries agitating to use atomic bombs- small countries that want to improve their status, small countries that want to be big countries. [More…]
They want to use atomic bombs. [More…]
Canada provided India with a nuclear reactor and fuel to experiment with the peaceful use of atomic energy. [More…]
The Government wishes to ensure that if a decision was taken to permit new uranium export, the uranium would be covered by International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards from the time it left Australia ‘s ownership. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that a few weeks ago there was a report that a scientist working at Lucas Heights had died of cancer and that the Atomic Energy Commission had accepted responsibility to the extent that it was paying compensation to the man’s wife. [More…]
It should endeavour to ensure that the Atomic Energy Commission is in a position to act as an honest adviser to the Government on the use of atomic energy rather than as an agent for the uranium producers. [More…]
Information about atomic energy should be given in the market place so that the people of Australia can be concerned and fully informed about the mining of uranium. [More…]
If the Atomic Energy Commission adopted that role it would contribute much more than it has done up to this time. [More…]
If the $20m which has been spent up to this point of time on research into atomic energy was spent on research into solar power- a clean renewable safe source of energy- we would be advancing the cause of the Third World countries much further than we are advancing them at the moment. [More…]
An atomic energy scientist in America when queried about the amount of radiation that people can stand and the amount the world can stand, said: [More…]
On this matter, I simply say that the track record of the Atomic Energy Commission should give none of us any feeling of confidence. [More…]
We heard witnesses from the Atomic Energy Commission brazenly tell us that its standards were 10 per cent above North American standards. [More…]
It was only when the witnesses from the then Department of the Interior were recalled by that Senate Committee that we discovered the situation with respect to the Finniss River and what had been said by the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I refer to the next question of atomic material and its availability in other areas. [More…]
Later on I shall touch briefly on the subject of the atomic bomb, which has been mentioned by members of the Opposition, and on the scares that they have about it. [More…]
As I said in my opening, we knew what we were in for because of the atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we were able to take commensurate safeguards to protect future generations. [More…]
1 ) What is the total number of deformities and ‘ monster’ births in Japan that are related to the two atomic bomb explosions in 1945. [More…]
About 13 per cent of a group of children irradiated in utero as a result of the atomic bomb explosions showed a mean reduction of head circumference at maturity of about 1 centimetre compared with an incidence of about 4 per cent of a like deformity in a control group of Japanese children in utero at the time of the explosions but not exposed to radiation doses. [More…]
On the other hand about 3 per cent of a group of children irradiated in utero as a result of the atomic bomb explosions showed evidence of some mental retardation compared with an incidence of about 1 per cent in the control group. [More…]
As already indicated in answer to pan 1 of the question, in some of the children born of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the atomic bomb explosions, effects of a developmental character occurred. [More…]
On the basis of the studies carried out to date there is no evidence of any effects on the genetic structure of the Japanese population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exposed to the atomic bomb explosions. [More…]
When project Manhatten was going it was obvious that there was a race on to be the first to build that atomic bomb before our then enemies did. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission did not accept responsibility for his death. [More…]
If we stopped nuclear power generation today we would not prevent countries making atomic bombs. [More…]
Does the Opposition suggest that we prevent the export of our iron ore because it might go into the production of casings for an atomic bomb? [More…]
When we talk about the ease with which an atomic bomb could be made I remind the Senate that when the first atomic bomb was made it took hundreds of the top scientists in the world, a blank cheque, and years and years to do it. [More…]
It is ridiculous to assume that a country could just on its own build an atomic bomb. [More…]
Senator Collard then said that we could not build an atomic bomb and that there is no danger with an atomic bomb in the hands of people unless they are experts. [More…]
A British newspaper said today it had assembled all the parts of an atomic bomb, except for the plutonium explosive, to demonstrate that terrorists could do the same. ) [More…]
A Commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission has stated that the development of a black market in plutonium is likely . [More…]
To the village square we must carry the facts of atomic energy, from there must come America s voice. [More…]
This compares dismally with a budget of $23m for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission alone in 1975-76. [More…]
These were: 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 reexport, enrichment and re-processing; physical security; safeguards provisions in contracts; and international and multilateral efforts to strengthen safeguards. [More…]
1, of the International Atomic Energy Agency bulletin, there is a table which shows the construction costs of various types of plants for nuclear development. [More…]
I might add that the International Atomic Energy Agency points out that 90 per cent of that amount will be invested in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. [More…]
I read an interesting comment by a delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency Conference in Vienna in 1975. [More…]
A table appears at page 1 1 of the annual report for 1975-76 of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which sets out the contributions which will be made from fossil fuels, hydro-electric and geothermal energy and nuclear energy in 1973, 1985 and the year 2000. [More…]
The annual sale of radioisotopes produced by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission exceeded $lm in 1975-76. [More…]
The Government is endeavouring to assure the public that it is concerned to see that Australian uranium is shipped overseas only with proper international atomic energy agency safeguards. [More…]
According to a memorandum of understanding between the co-venturers dated 28 October 1975, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission would provide 7216 per cent of the capital required for the project and Peko Mines Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australia each would provide 13% per cent. [More…]
Membership of the Fund shall be open to any State member of the United Nations or any of its specialized agencies, or of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
I am wondering why the International Atomic Energy Agency is eligible for membership of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. [More…]
The inclusion of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the membership of the Fund suggests to me that a decision of the Fund can be made by two-thirds of the majority of members to use the fund for some atomic application for better grinding of rice in China or elsewhere in Asia, for example. [More…]
I particularly ask why membership of the Fund should be open to specialised agencies of the United Nations or the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
No mention is made of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
Why have we a bar on anyone who does not come within those two categories or who is not a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]
Why do we welcome into the Fund a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]
If we read the Bill we see that countries need not be members of the International Atomic Energy Agency if they are state members of the United Nations or any of its specialised agencies. [More…]
There must be some logical reason why the International Atomic Energy Agency comes into this. [More…]
It is not necessary to be a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]
I am informed that a country may be a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency but not a member of the United Nations. [More…]
Whether or not the International Atomic Energy Agency is there simply because of its United Nations association I cannot say. [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…]
Senator Cavanagh has asked why it was necessary for the International Atomic Energy Agency to be expressly included in paragraph (a) of Article 3 of the Agreement Establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh might be interested to learn of the reason for specifically mentioning the International Atomic Energy Agency in this formulation. [More…]
The International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) is an intergovernmental organization and was established in Vienna, Austria, on 29 July 1957. [More…]
Its main objectives are ‘to seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world ‘ and to ‘ensure so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose’. [More…]
Although the International Atomic Energy Agency is now a fully accepted member of the UN system, it cannot be considered as falling within either of these two categories. [More…]
THE LAW AND PRACTICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY [More…]
As soon as serious consideration was given to the establishment of an atomic energy agency to be charged with the distribution and control of materials potentially usable in nuclear weapons, it was recognised that such an organization would differ substantially from the specialized agencies, whose concerns, while important, fall squarely within the purview of ECOSOC. [More…]
Is it correct that when in government the Australian Labor Party purchased 41.6 per cent of the Mary Kathleen uranium shares through a governmental instrumentality- the Australian Atomic Energy Commission- using the Australian taxpayers’ money, which percentage represented some 30,764,142 shares in the company, and then appointed Mr Egerton, a senior trade unionist, to the Mary Kathleen board to supervise the Labor Party’s interest in the mining of uranium and the production and sale of uranium oxide- yellowcake? [More…]
If the answer to ( 1) is in the negative, will the Minister take action under Section 37(c), and possibly under other sections, of the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1 973, so as to ensure that the Act is being complied with. [More…]
Australian Atomic Energy Commission [More…]
Australian Atomic Energy Commission-Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney [More…]
As required of a party to the Treaty on the Non.Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Australia advises the International Atomic Energy Agency of the quantity, composition and destination of the material exported. [More…]
The transport and packaging arrangements are made having regard to all relevant requirements of the ‘Regulations for the Safe Transport ot Radioactive Materials prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Commonwealth and State Government regulations and requirements. [More…]
Because the major portion of solar research funding is not necessarily directed towards national priorities and because, in my opinion, a disproportionately large amount of research funding is directed towards atomic energy research, I ask: Has the Government considered this aspect of the report? [More…]
The Government is endeavouring to assure the public that it is concerned to see that Australian uranium is shipped overseas only with proper international atomic energy agency safeguards. [More…]
As required of a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Australia advises the International Atomic Energy Agency of the quantity, composition and destination of the material exported. [More…]
The transport and packaging arrangements are made having regard to all relevant requirements of the Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency and Commonwealth and State Government regulations and requirements. [More…]
A couple of the honourable senator’s colleagues asked questions of members of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at that inquiry. [More…]
I suggest that the honourable senator should wait until I get an answer from the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Have the Government and its inter- departmental committees finished their study of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Second Report (Fox Report); if so, when is the Government likely to implement the following recommendation made in the Fox Report: ‘That section 87A(2) of the Northern Territory Mining Ordinance 1939-1976 should be amended so that a uranium mining lease may be forfeited by the Administrator without a recommendation from the Atomic Energy Commission ‘. [More…]
Indeed, the explosion of an atomic device anywhere would render it useless for hours. [More…]
I hope that by now all honourable senators have read the evidence given last Thursday before Estimates Committee A when the Luddites attempted to cross-examine the scientists from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I think Senator Sir Magnus Cormack would be well aware that I have hammered this subject and have blown my trumpet about the Finniss River and about how irresponsible we were in 1970 when the Atomic Energy Commission allowed the impregnation of the river with tailings which, again, made it desolate. [More…]
I am concerned about whether there are strict laws of secrecy under the Atomic Energy Act and the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for National Resources by quoting the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency who, at a conference in Vienna on 28 September, said: [More…]
Technical assessments by experts in the United States of America- the National Science Foundation/National Aeronautics Space Administration in 1973, Atomic Energy Commission in 1973, Federal Energy Agency m 1974, NSF in 1974 and the American Petroleum Society in 1975- all broadly agree that a significant fraction of energy supply could be taken up by diverse solar technologies within this century and far more shortly thereafter. [More…]
Starting in the 1990s, these solar energy estimates considerably exceeded the United States Atomic Energy Commission ‘s most sanguine projections for the contributions of nuclear fission. [More…]
It can provide a very significant amount in lower grade energy needs, out it is wrong to hold out to a public that is becoming more and more aware of the impending crisis that solar energy is an alternative to major development of such energy sources as atomic energy. [More…]
It is not an alternative to atomic energy and should never be held out as such. [More…]
For instance, the Atomic Energy Commission receives about $20m a year; coal research receives about $4m a year and solar energy research slightly in excess of $lm a year. [More…]
The Government has not disposed of its shareholding in Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd. Kathleen Investments (Australia) Limited, a former major shareholder in Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd, initiated legal proceedings challenging the validity of the shareholding held in Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In other words, notwithstanding the fact that the Victorian Government has revived the 1948 Essential Services Act with all its powers that go far beyond any other piece of legislation bar probably the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973, and notwithstanding the repressive, excessive powers contained in the Essential Services Act, other workers in the Latrobe Valley are prepared to say that if certain things happen they will join the SEC maintenance workers in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Peko and EZ shall carry on a joint venture in the Northern Territory for. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government further aware that this agreement, signed by Mr Whitlam, provides that the Committee shall comprise two representatives from the Atomic Energy Commission, one from Peko and one from EZ? [More…]
That is the Atomic Energy Commission- and one member shall be appointed by each of Peko and EZ. [More…]
I presume that the Minister knows that yesterday an allegation was made to the Windscale inquiry in England, an inquiry into aspects of nuclear power industry, by the widow of a former director of the Lucas Heights atomic energy establishment that 100 lb of pure plutonium and 300 tonnes of highly radioactive waste was dumped at Pine Gap and Maralinga. [More…]
Even Russia, a country which will not be a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty, is doing all it can as a nation in support of the establishment of world banks to handle plutonium from fast breeders because it is concerned that this is the material from which atomic bombs are built. [More…]
There has been a sufficient spread of realisation of the downturn in the hopes for atomic energy, and at the same time the hopes for solar energy look much greater than they were. [More…]
This statement applies (with minor differences) whether the new energy system should (somewhat recklessly) use up the last remaining coal deposits, indulge in dubiously safe atomic energy, or develop the advantageous solar-hydrogen system. [More…]
In view of the two facts that Mr Justice Fox has reported, namely, that there is general opposition overseas to the United States and Canadian propositions that there could be no reprocessing of uranium supplied by those countries without the specific approval of supplier countries and that there is concern overseas that the International Atomic Energy Agency may not be able to administer nuclear safeguards satisfactorily, how does the Australian Government intend to maintain the fictional assurances given to the Australian people that Australian safeguards will be met completely by overseas takers of our uranium exports? [More…]
Mining operations at Ranger will be carried on under the Atomic Energy Act which does not provide for payment of royalties. [More…]
In the case of Ranger where rnining will be carried on under the Atomic Energy Act 1953, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 provides that the determination of amounts, higher than the royalty rate prescribed by section 63 (5) (a) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act, will be made jointly by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for National Resources. [More…]
Do the main objections to the Australian nuclear safeguards policy relate to the application of the full International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, a ban of more than 20 per cent U308 enrichment, and the requirement of prior Australian consent to re-export and re-process Australian uranium. [More…]
The provisions for International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards and prior Australian consent to high enrichment reprocessing and retransfer are integral parts of that package, as are the other requirements which have been stated, for example, bilateral agreements with customer countries, proscription of diversion of supplied nuclear material to military and explosive uses and adequate physical security. [More…]
The method of packaging and transporting the material accords with the requirements in the ‘Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials’ issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [More…]
How will the Australian Government ensure that Aus.tralian safeguards will be completely met by overseas takers of our uranium exports, in view of Mr Justice Fox’s report of 29 September 1977, recorded in a Foreign Affairs Departmental minute made public on 2 November 1977, that: (a) there is general opposition overseas to the United States and Canadian proposition that there could be no reprocessing of uranium supplied by these countries without the specific approval of supplier countries; and (b) there is concern overseas that the International Atomic Energy Agency may not be able to administer safeguards satisfactorily. [More…]
Whilst Australian and United States officials maintained close contact with developments, all necessary contingency arrangements were made by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission against the remote possibility that the satellite would reenter the atmosphere over Australia. [More…]
The State Government is still working closely with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in regard to a uranium enrichment plant in South Australia and uranium exploration generally in South Australia. [More…]
Special assistance is being provided by the Australian Radiation Laboratory, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Meteorology, the South Australian Department of Mines and the South Australian Department for the Environment. [More…]
What came out of the Atomic Energy Commission report that was tabled yesterday completely refutes, without my having to bother to do it, the remarks that the honourable senator made. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission report tabled yesterday explodes that theory also. [More…]
The world demand for atomic energy and uranium itself is becoming less and less. [More…]
Time has just about run away from me, but in the couple of minutes that I have left I want to make a brief reference to the findings of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which completely disprove Senator Young’s statement about Roxby Downs uranium being a great money spinner for the taxpayers of South Australia. [More…]
I hope that when we debate this Atomic Energy Commission report Senator Young will be able to stand up and explain why he now maintains that there is great value there. [More…]
But how long was the report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission delayed before it was tabled in this Parliament? [More…]
He has an understanding that a letter from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission refuting this report was published in the same paper on 5 March. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has suppled radio pharmaceuticals and radio isotopes for use by nuclear physicians for many years. [More…]
This difficulty has been recognised and a working party consisting of specialists from the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the Prince of Wales Hospital and officers of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been set up to study the problem. [More…]
The production and supply of other atomic energy produced radio pharmaceuticals is unaffected by this one difficulty. [More…]
It has been reported that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has stated that it is anticipated that between 1980 and 1985 there will be a drop in the demand for uranium of some 36 per cent from the original estimates of production because of delays and revisions caused primarily by environmentalist groups. [More…]
-I am advised by my colleague in the other place that the annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended 30 June 1977 stated that Australian sales of uranium to the mid-1980s might amount to between 33,000 tonnes and 55,000 tonnes. [More…]
The estimates and advice of the Atomic Energy Commission were, of course, available to the Government in the course of making the decision in relation to the development of Australian uranium resources which was announced to the Parliament on 25 August 1977. [More…]
On Friday of this week the Committee will visit the Atomic Energy Research Station at Lucas Heights. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission has done a lot of work in determining the age of ground water by measuring the relative quantities of various radioactive substances in the water. [More…]
It was only as a result of the courage of the Senate Water Pollution Committee, in perhaps badgering witnesses, that we learned that the actions of our much-vaunted Atomic Energy Commission had, by miscalculation, polluted the Finniss River. [More…]
If one takes the trouble to look at the latest report issued by the Atomic Energy Commission one will discover that certain echelons of Government have asked the Atomic Energy Commission whether it can discover the extent of Australia’s underground water supplies. [More…]
It has been reported that some 200 to 400 tonnes of uranium ore from the old workings of the Atomic Energy Commission at Rum Jungle have been dumped at Snake Creek. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for National Development, who is responsible for atomic energy, has advised me that he has instigated an investigation of this matter and has asked for an early report on it. [More…]
I also drew the attention of the Minister to the statement of Mr Duncan Campbell, a scientific writer, which appeared in most of the national Press yesterday, that in fact the technical and scientific personnel of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission were in some way involved during the orbit of that satellite over Australia. [More…]
The honourable senator mentioned the interests of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
-Will the Minister representing the Minister for National Development confirm whether two documents which were partially reproduced and extensively quoted in yesterday’s edition of the Australian and are purportedly drafts of proposed amendments to the Atomic Energy Act 1953 are authentic? [More…]
Committee members also met officers of the Commonwealth National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for National Development a question about the report of the Atomic Energy Commission for the year ended June 1977. [More…]
-Senator Thomas has asked whether the Atomic Energy Commission’s annual report for the year ended 30 June 1977 indicates that there will be a market for uranium in the 1980s. [More…]
The estimates and advice of the Atomic Energy Commission were, of course, available to the Government in the course of making a decision in relation to the development of Australian uranium resources. [More…]
I am advised that about late October or early November last year when this ore body was found it was considered, after consultation with the Atomic Energy Commission, unwise to put the ore into open cuts which already are full of ore and which contain contaminants through leaching from the copper ore body and chemicals which were used in uranium processing. [More…]
It was also considered by the Atomic Energy Commission that it could be well worth while processing the ore when the Alligator River uranium field was established and that, as Rum Jungle had become a popular tourist visitation area and was visited by interstate tourist buses, it would be preferable to remove the ore to another site which was under Commonwealth control, as the honourable senator indicated in his question. [More…]
I am advised that there are a number of theoretically possible processes which might enrich uranium and which are described in the 25th annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The feasibility of the laser enrichment technique has been demonstrated overseas on the milligram scale using atomic uranium vapour, but this approach is complicated by the low efficiency of the required lasers, the high temperatures involved and the corrosive nature of uranium vapour. [More…]
But laser enrichment is a line of research worth following and it has been under investigation by the Atomic Energy Commission since 1971. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for National Development seen critical commentary by the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, reported in last week ‘s South Australian Sunday Mail regarding the Federal Government’s proposed legislation to amend the Australian Atomic Energy Act? [More…]
As to the first question, the Atomic Energy Act 1953- that is the existing Act- already makes provision for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to mine uranium for the purpose of ensuring the provision of uranium for the defence of the Commonwealth or for any other purpose of the Commonwealth. [More…]
A fundamental purpose of the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill is to enable the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake the functions envisaged for it in relation to the development of the Ranger project. [More…]
Proposed amendments to the principal Actthat is, the Atomic Energy Act 1953- will make clear the power of the Commission to engage in the Ranger project in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding dated 28 October 1975 between the Commonwealth Government and Peko- Wallsend Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd. As to the third question asked by Senator Young, he will be aware that some time ago the South Australian Government and the Premier showed a keen interest in the question of attracting a uranium enrichment plant to South Australia. [More…]
That allegation was answered in full by the General Manager of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in a press statement of 20 June 1977. [More…]
Has he looked at the various reafforestation programs after a period of time or has he, along with many of the other emotional people, just gone into the forest after the initial burn-off when, admittedly, the place looks as though an atomic bomb has hit it. [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 Pty Ltd of uranium deposits in the Northern Territory of Australia. ‘ [More…]
Honourable senators 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 [More…]
Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 [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 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 safeguards 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 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 amended to meet the request of the AuditorGeneral 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 6 1 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…]
The implications of the amendments to Atomic Energy Act and Approved Defence Projects Act for civil liberties are frightening and without precedent. [More…]
The Opposition will oppose outright the first of these Bills, namely, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
1 shall concentrate my remarks mostly on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and subsequent speakers will pay more attention to the second Bill we are debating. [More…]
Even if the Opposition were not generally opposed to uranium mining, it would still oppose these Bills, especially the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, for reasons which I shall detail later. [More…]
General objections to the mining of uranium or to the movement into the nuclear fuel cycle aside, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill is a most unsatisfactory piece of legislation to use as a vehicle for Government policy. [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…]
Accordingly, we are proposing amendments to sections 1 7 and 34 of the Atomic Energy Act which will substantially broaden the basis of the Act and clearly authorise the participation of the Australia Atomic Energy Commission in the Ranger Project for the purpose of ensuring the supply of uranium. [More…]
The Government has clearly acknowledged that the purpose of this amending legislation to the Atomic Energy Act is commercial. [More…]
It has tacked this commercial purpose or objective on to the principal Act, that is the Atomic Energy Act of 1953, which incorporates all the sweeping defence powers which the Commonwealth can assert for itself. [More…]
The Fox commission explicitly recommended against the use of the Atomic Energy Act for this purpose. [More…]
That the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 not be used for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]
having reviewed this matter, the Government nevertheless considered that the Atomic Energy Act provides an appropriate basis for mining operations at Ranger. [More…]
In both the statement of the Prime Minister at that time and in introducing this legislation, the Government has rejected the recommendation of the Fox commission that it would be wrong to use the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 for this purpose. [More…]
I know that Government supporters have said, and that probably Government supporters who subsequently participate in this debate will say, that the Labor Government at some time in the past planned to use the Atomic Energy Act for this purpose. [More…]
I have two comments to make in respect of that matter: Firstly, it was not the intention of the Labor Government to use the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
When we delve back into the history of what happened just 44 months ago it is more than a little ironic that today the Liberal and National Country Parties should attempt to use the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 as the vehicle to cany their uranium mining policy. [More…]
On 19 September 1974, the Senate disallowed regulations proclaimed under the 1953 Atomic Energy Act to provide the basis for uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I shall quote some of the statements made by Senator Durack at that time about the use of the Atomic Energy Act for the purpose of providing a legal vehicle for the commercial exploitation of uranium. [More…]
I will quote just one of them at this stage, from the Atomic Energy Act 1953, section 4 1 . [More…]
Prescribed substances are uranium, thorium and, I think, any substance containing any of the elements with an atomic weight above 93- -and minerals mined or otherwise recovered in pursuance of an authority under this section that are not otherwise the property of the Commonwealth are, by force of this section, vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]
That is the 1953 Act- - and the wide powers given under it were, of course, at that time dictated very much by the strategic character of uranium as to its use in the production of atomic weapons and the great concern which was held at that time in respect of that subject. [More…]
In making that statement Senator Durack clearly rejected the use of the Atomic Energy Act for any purpose other than defence purposes. [More…]
Twenty-one of the Liberal Party and National Country Party senators who in 1974 disallowed regulations made under the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 on the grounds inter alia that it was quite improper to use an Act which was primarily a defence Act, or associated with the defence powers of the Commonwealth, for commercial purposes, presumably will all support a Bill which will do precisely that. [More…]
A prescribed substance is any element with an atomic weight above 93- if I remember correctly- is or are present on or under the whole or part of an area of land … the Minister may . [More…]
If they had wanted to protest against the infringement of States’ rights or, more importantly in my view, the gross and scandalous infringements of the rights of the individual and the denial of the most fundamental principles of AngloAustralian jurisprudence, they should have started protesting 25 years ago about the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
For the reasons I have stated with regard to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, it is quite clear that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill should be rejected by the Senate, particularly in view of the fact that three and a half years ago Liberal and National Country Party senators rejected regulations made under the Act on the grounds that it was improper to use an Act rooted in the defence powers of the Commonwealth for commercial purposes, and the regulations were disallowed. [More…]
It is with pleasure that I enter the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which the Senate is debating concurrently with the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
-The Senate this afternoon is debating two Bills cognately- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]
My comments will concentrate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Amendment Bill will facilitate joint participation in the mining of uranium by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Ranger Uranium Mines Pty Ltd. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act 1953, which we are amending by this Bill, gave the Minister power to exercise control over nuclear materials but only in connection with defence or with a Territory. [More…]
However, I do intend to outline, and to outline forcibly, my personal opposition and that of the Australian Labor Party to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
Therefore it is almost a fait accompli that the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill will be passed. [More…]
My basic and overwhelming objection to the Atomic Energy Act and the amending Bill which is before us is that they will allow uranium mining. [More…]
Sections 44, 45 and 46 of the Atomic Energy a dc;il with the communication of restricted information, the acquisition of restricted information and the removal of restricted information. [More…]
These are repressive sections which, taken by themselves and with sections 44, 45 and 46 of the Atomic Energy Act, can cause a person to be imprisoned for up to 20 years. [More…]
If one is wrongfully detained or arrested under the provisions of this Act, no action lies against the Commonwealth or the State or the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
This afternoon we are debating a Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act and also the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]
This package of legislation deals, as I said, with amendments to the Atomic Energy Act, with aspects of the environment in the Alligator Rivers region where the mines are situated, and with Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
We heard a lot today about the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
In answer to comments made earlier by Senator Colston, the sort of country which might do that would be the country which wanted to make an atomic bomb but could not get any uranium any other way. [More…]
That estimate comes from an atomic industrial forum which was held in the United States in 1975. [More…]
Workers at the Atomic Research Centre at Lucas Heights in Australia get something like 100 rem of radiation per annum- a rem is a measure of radiation. [More…]
Criticism was made today about the fact that we are amending the Atomic Energy Act, because on a previous occasion we did not support a Labor Bill to amend the Act in this place. [More…]
The same thing happened with regard to regulations which were proposed by the previous Whitlam Government to be included in the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Shall grant any necessary and appropriate authorities under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
This shows clearly that the Labor Party was prepared eventually to work by democratic means, not socialistic means, to involve itself in work under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
In that case the Commission was the Atomic Energy Commission, the government agency- in other words, the Government. [More…]
Mr Newman, the Minister for National Development, stated in his second reading speech on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill that the Prime Minister: . [More…]
That is an important point to remember when criticism is continually levelled against the Government because it is making amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
In this way Australia also can have a say with regard to the International Atomic Agency, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, et cetera. [More…]
The fact that there has been no haste presents no justification for the Government amending the Atomic Energy Act in the way it intends. [More…]
The other night when I was watching television I saw a previous chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Sir Philip Baxter, applying himself to a different aspect of this whole problem of nuclear power which, at its fullest projection, will decide the fate of mankind. [More…]
We are still using the term atomic energy, when on all other occasionsexcept in this amending Bill which is the hidden clout in the Act- every other reference is to nuclear power. [More…]
Atomic power- the splitting of the atom- was a great discovery. [More…]
I place on record my total opposition to this objectionable amendment to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
As our society believes that any progress involves a certain degree of risk, we’re going to weigh that risk by asking one basic question: whether the problem of atomic waste has brought us to the threshold of our ability to manage our own plant. [More…]
I support the Government on these two Bills, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]
Do honourable senators think that the terrorists could get hold of it and make an atomic bomb, considering the thousands of scientists that were used in project Manhattan to make the first atomic bomb? [More…]
The first Bill, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, flies in the face of recommendations from the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry, but the Government has decided to use this as an instrument by which the Atomic Energy Commission can buy into the Ranger project and thus we can keep faith with the Memorandums of Understanding that were laid down by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
Let me remind them that they know as much about business as they know about atomic energy. [More…]
I believe that work is being done- our own Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights may be working on this also- whereby a laser process is used. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
I want to refer to some particular provisions of the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 that concern me and on which perhaps other honourable senators on this side of the House have not spoken in great detail. [More…]
Secondly, we regard the Atomic Energy Act 1953 as being totally inappropriate to control commercial or civil uranium mining. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission is an inappropriate body to be responsible for commercial uranium development. [More…]
The second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry- the report of Mr Justice Fox which Senator Collard clearly has not read or has disposed of in his mind as being a totally irrelevant document- stated that the Atomic Energy Act 1953 should not be used for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium. [More…]
The Opposition believes that, in spite of that injunction from Mr Justice Fox, the Government wants to continue to use the Atomic Energy Act for two specific reasons. [More…]
The first reason is that the Atomic Energy Act, which dates from 1953, contains specific provisions based on the defence power which will offer the Government a means of intimidating and suppressing public opposition to uranium mining. [More…]
Those are some quite substantial and simply stated objections that we have to the use of the Atomic Energy Act as the vehicle for proceeding with commercial uranium mining in Australia. [More…]
I point out that the Fox report objected to the use of the Atomic Energy Act on quite specific grounds. [More…]
I remind honourable senators again that the Atomic Energy Act is based on the defence power. [More…]
That must be seen again in the context of the remarks made in the Fox report regarding the inappropriateness of the Atomic Energy Act for uranium mining for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Thirdly, we believe that there could be a very real conflict of interest- the Fox Commission pointed this outbetween the entrepreneurial or commercial activities of the Atomic Energy Commission and its responsibilities under the Act to supervise local environmental protection measures. [More…]
Those are the sorts of simple and fundamental objections which we have to the use of the Atomic Energy Act and to the Bill which is designed to amend that Act. [More…]
I again point to the fact that the Atomic Energy Act was designed for quite specific purposes- the political circumstances in 1 953, not the political circumstances in 1 978. [More…]
I was seeking to make some of the same points about this legislation as I sought to make about the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
We must understand that the Parliament operates in a society in which there should be freedom of discussion and debate on these matters and that persons involved in that process of freedom of discussion and debate should not be subjected to the sort of pernicious powers which are available to the Government under the Atomic Energy Act and which will be available to the Government if the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill is passed. [More…]
It seemed to me that so long as there was an opportunity for the expression of freedom of opinion about uranium mining in Australia, Senator Button would have no objection to it other than that he would not have used the vehicle of the Atomic Energy Act for this purpose. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act, which will be amended by the first Bill that is the subject of the debate tonight, was chosen by the Australian Labor Party when it was in government as the vehicle for the task that it was contemplating. [More…]
It involved the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in 7216 per cent of the development, Peko Mines Ltd in 13% per cent of the development and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd in 13% per cent of the development. [More…]
At that stage, the Labor Government had chosen the Australian Atomic Energy Commission as the vehicle for its negotiations, and it had used the Atomic Energy Act for this purpose. [More…]
Of course, the Atomic Energy Act, as it then stood, needed some amendments to enable that Memorandum of Understanding to be carried out. [More…]
It facilitates the joint participation in the mining of uranium by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the other partners in the mining venture at Ranger. [More…]
That is one of the amendments which is sought to be made to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I find it extremely difficult to believe that Opposition senators could be serious in their professed objections to the Bill amending the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
The provisions of the amending Bill to the Atomic Energy Act come into the same category. [More…]
Because the Atomic Energy Act was conceived originally as a security measure the penalties for breach of it are extremely severe. [More…]
The States maintain objections to the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act similar to those they have in respect of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
That was brought home to me very clearly by a recent visit to the Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. [More…]
What I was trying to suggest objectively is that before I visited the Alligator Rivers area I visited the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
At the Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights over lunch one of the scientists commented that the glass of wine that Senator Mulvihill was drinking at the time was radiating more radiation per moment - [More…]
The New York railway station which is built of granite emits many times the amount of radiation that would be permissible for any atomic energy power station in America. [More…]
The two Bills now being debated cognately are the Atomic Energy Amendment BUI and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
How does the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill or the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill protect that intimacy? [More…]
Under the Atomic Energy Act we are now seeking to ratify that agreement and extend it into legislative form in order to protect the areas about which we have been talking. [More…]
It is interesting to observe that the most stringent safeguards have been set down in the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
I take part in this debate very conscious of the fact that the Government assumes that the Bills- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978- will establish mechanisms for protecting the health and safety of the people of Australia. [More…]
Here in Australia the atomic industry has always assumed that the threshold was 5 rads a year. [More…]
Even Sir Philip Baxter said recently that it is not necessary for countries to have a nuclear power industry for them to be able to produce atomic bombs. [More…]
The Ford Foundation said that a crude atomic bomb could be produced in a clandestine laboratory with minimum knowhow. [More…]
In conclusion 1 can do no better than to quote from the second report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry where it looked at the use of the Atomic Energy Act 1953. [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…]
Senator Maunsell then said that there was nothing wrong with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan because he walked around the site afterwards and found it quite safe. [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…]
Amendments to the Atomic Energy Act ensure that the Government’s safeguards policy will be administered by the Atomic Energy Commission . [More…]
According to Australian Government statements, the mining of the Ranger deposit will be covered by the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
We strongly recommend against the use of the Act - that is, the Atomic Energy Act- for the grant of an authority to Ranger to mine uranium if mining were approved. [More…]
The use of the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining now makes it an offence for any worker, union or Australian citizen not to comply fully with the mining and the export of uranium. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act provisions already include those set out in the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1 947 which provides for a fine of up to $10,000 and 12 months gaol. [More…]
So the Bill extends the Atomic Energy Act in that respect. [More…]
I seek your support and co-operation in deferring the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Act Amendment Bill until full and proper consultations have taken place at the Premiers Conference due on June 22. [More…]
The Australian Government also wants to use the Atomic Energy Act to control opposition to the export of uranium in direct opposition to the recommendations of the Fox inquiry. [More…]
We strongly urge you to oppose the passage of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill when they come before the Senate. [More…]
We object to the amendments proposed in the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill for changes to sections 34 (b) and (c) and 38 (4) on similar grounds. [More…]
The implications of the amendments to Atomic Energy Act and Approved Defence Projects Act for civil liberties are frightening and without precedent. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to commence a $10m program of nuclear fusion research. [More…]
Whilst on the one hand mouthing pious sentiments about the need for consultation between State and Federal governments before codes are proclaimed or enforced, the Government has so worded the clauses of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the amendments to the Atomic Energy Act that, in fact, the States have no rights at all. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 that are before us disclose a real concern although that may only be in deference to a significant section of public opinion. [More…]
Then reference is made to the Atomic Energy Act which, as you know, Madam Acting Deputy President, is based upon only two powers, defence and territories. [More…]
However I have made one or two notes on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]
This Bill seeks to broaden the principal Act so that the Atomic Energy Commission can participate in the Ranger project and so that uranium mining can proceed under that Act. [More…]
The Government has not accepted the recommendation of the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry that the Atomic Energy Act should not be used as a vehicle for uranium mining in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In dealing with the Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations on 19 September 1974 he had this to say: [More…]
I support the motion for the disallowance of the regulations under the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973. [More…]
On 19 September 1974, when dealing with the Atomic Energy (Prescribed Substances) Regulations, Senator Durack had this to say when summarising the views of the Opposition of 1974: [More…]
-The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978. [More…]
In a particularly scintillating contribution on the atomic energy legislation the other night he drew a fascinating analogy between the radioactive hazards of a nuclear industry and a glass of wine. [More…]
I think that anyone listening to the debate in this chamber or elsewhere tonight would not have been aware that he was talking about the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, which are two important subjects to Australia that do not figure in his dissertation at all. [More…]
I turn now to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill which is being dealt with in this debate jointly with the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill. [More…]
It has been interesting to find out what is the justification for using the Atomic Energy Act 1953- an Act largely of a defence nature- which set up the Atomic Energy Commission and which places very great power in the hands of the executive Government. [More…]
I have heard it argued that the Australian Labor Party, when it made arrangements about the Ranger field and entered into engagements, had in mind using the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I think there is some real concern as to the use of 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 1953. [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 a monitor of them. [More…]
Finally he drew attention to the security provisions of Part IV of the Atomic Energy Act, some of which seem extreme in the current context but which were doubtless enacted with defence considerations in mind. [More…]
In regard to this Act, once again I turn to what I think are the rather serious implications of the application of the original, even amended, Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Furthermore, the Atomic Energy Act itself imports in its terms the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act of 1947. [More…]
When one looks at the various parts of this Act, one sees that there are some very real concerns about the use of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
The Senate is debating the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1 978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 conjointly, to which the Opposition has moved the following amendment: [More…]
Such questions arise with particular force in relation to the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the proposed amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Despite that, I am not in favour of the legislation which is before us- the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill- being passed through the Parliament. [More…]
-The Senate has been debating at length two Bills, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 and the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978, and I thank honourable senators for their contributions. [More…]
The first Bill, the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, will enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to participate on behalf of the Commonwealth in a joint venture with Peko/EZ. [More…]
It is important to understand that the first Bill will give us the opportunity 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 has just been established, the main Bill in the package is the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Philippines is a party to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in connection with the NPT and is a member of the IAEA. [More…]
We have not been successful in our opposition to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill which in fact permits uranium mining to proceed. [More…]
He has been very prominent in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at Lucas Heights. [More…]
I was very impressed when I visited the Lucas Heights establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission to learn that the Commission itself has been studying the environment of the Kakadu area over a period of years and certainly recognises the fragility of the environment, particularly in the wet season when the floods can occur. [More…]
We heard the same type of thing the other day when we dealt with amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Even our own Atomic Energy Commission has reported that demand for Australia ‘s uranium by the mid-1980s will be drastically down on past estimates. [More…]
I am advised that the discussions between officials indicated that the States were most concerned about two of the six Bills introduced into the Parliament last month- the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill and the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
It is not proposed to make any amendment to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill at this stage. [More…]
Firstly, it provides a firm legal basis for an authority under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act for Ranger to mine, and it is essential that Ranger proceed this dry season. [More…]
As I said the other day when I spoke to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, it will be far too late when the mines are fabricated and operating because the Government, if it is then proved that it does not have the necessary safeguards will not have the fortitude to prevent the mining companies from going ahead because they will have too big a hold on the Government. [More…]
Senate committee chaired by Senator Davidson which was dealing with atomic energy at Rum Jungle. [More…]
Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 reported without amendment; Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 reported with amendments. [More…]
On the motion for the third reading I wish to introduce a factor which may not have been considered, merely, that the Atomic Energy Energy Amendment Bill clearly contravenes Article 14 (II) of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights of the United Nations, which states: [More…]
It is one of the aspects of the Atomic Energy Act which should be noted in relation to the erosion of basic civil liberties. [More…]
Section 47 of the Atomic Energy Act, which is not being amended by the current amendments and which will stand in relation to the commercial operations at Ranger, is particularly damaging in the context of the erosion of civil liberties. [More…]
Further, the use of section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act which relates to communication of restricted information with intent to prejudice defence, contravenes Articles 18, 19 and 21 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which deal with freedom of speech and assembly. [More…]
The contradictions between section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act being applied to a commercial development and the Covenant are striking. [More…]
On the one hand, the Covenant proclaims these basic rights of speech and freedom, whilst, on the other hand, the Atomic Energy Act as it is applied to Ranger would impose a penalty of 20 years imprisonment for a person communicating certain aspects of the Ranger development to the public. [More…]
Further, section 60 which applies to the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1 947 to any works carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and therefore including Ranger, effectively prevents any speechwriting or strike action in opposition to works undertaken by the Commission. [More…]
The terms of section 60 of the Atomic Energy Act make it clear that the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act provisions apply to any works of the Commission without the need for the gazettal which is otherwise required by section 3 of the Act. [More…]
Finally, these objections which I raise to sections of the Atomic Energy Act which will be used in relation to uranium mining at Ranger clearly illustrate the contradictory stand on civil liberties by the Government and the use of extreme powers, which were employed in the Cold War period of the 1 940s, with respect to a commercial development in the late 1970’s. [More…]
Georges would know, the provisions which he has outlined have been in the Atomic Energy Act for 25 years- since 1953- and various governments have known that. [More…]
I do not say that in any defensive way because I think that, now that particular aspects of the Atomic Energy Act may be used, it is a good time to reflect and to amend if necessary. [More…]
Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978 [More…]
On 14 July 1977 the Public Service Board agreed to an examination of the defence science area to see whether a form of merit promotion similar to that practised in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or the Atomic Energy Commission should be applied to defence scientists. [More…]
Atomic Energy Act 1953- Sub-sections 26 (2), 27 (2) and 31(1) and section 33. [More…]
Atomic Energy Act 1953- Sub-sections 26 (2), 27 (2) and 31(1) and section 33. [More…]
I refer to the report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which the Minister stated he has read. [More…]
I am aware of the report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I can say now, however, that Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission will be permitted to export uranium, the latter from the Ranger deposit. [More…]
He is about to sell all the Australian uranium on the open market, all of which will be used to make atomic bombs. [More…]
Certain restrictions are also imposed in relation to specific subject matters in defence, supply, and atomic energy legislation. [More…]
In that period it was not available to the Opposition, to interested heads of statutory authorities- for example, the Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commissionor to members of the National Energy Advisory Committee. [More…]
See my statements on 26 May 1978 concerning the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill 1978 and the Atomic Energy Amendment Act 1978 (Hansard, pp. [More…]
If the honourable senator wishes to know more about nuclear fusion research he should direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, who carries the responsibility for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Has the Australian Atomic Energy Commission refused to back this project which could save Australia up to $ 1 m per year in terms of balance of payments? [More…]
If I were to respond to a question about the Australian Atomic Energy Commission I would do so on behalf of the Minister for National Development. [More…]
The South Australian Government has established its own enrichment study group which receives technical assistance from the Australian Atomic Energy Commision. [More…]
First of all, in September 1972 at the instigation of the United States the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the Philippines Atomic Research Centre to make a health and safety inspection. [More…]
In September 1976 the Philippines Atomic Energy Commission asked the United States Embassy to determine whether the NRC would be willing to undertake a technical review of the preliminary report since it did not have the technical expertise nor the breadth of experience in the Philippines. [More…]
I give the following information: The supply of thallium 20 1 for cardiac imaging in Australia is currently under study by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission is examining the economics of the Australian National University proposals, but no data are yet available on the likely cost of local production. [More…]
I was able to talk to atomic energy scientists and engineers in Japan. [More…]
They are anxious to expand their production of power through atomic nuclear energy to something like 60 million megawatts by 1 990. [More…]
Mindful of the rightful protest that we made to the French Government over atomic tests in the Pacific, I ask: Are we now making a protest to the United States Government about its proposal to utilise islands to the north of Papua New Guinea to dump atomic waste? [More…]
British Foreign Secretary has advised today that the Deputy Director of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston and a small team of technical experts would be ready to come to Australia in the near future. [More…]
I am able to assure the Senate that the Government, facing a number of questions that have been raisedincluding the important one that has emerged of our responsibilities, if any, to the International Atomic Energy Agency- in fact will get the best scientific advice possible on whether there is a problem. [More…]
But I must say after sitting in on several Estimates committee meetings- I am thinking in particular of the estimates for the Atomic Energy Commission- that I have noted the effect of the numerical ceiling having a particular impact on organisations carrying on research and development at the skilled tradesman or technician level. [More…]
They include the atomic absorption spectrometer, invented by the CSIRO, which have been very important instruments in measuring small amounts of metals. [More…]
Over 30,000 atomic absorption spectrometers are now in use around the world. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that staff ceilings have placed in jeopardy a wide range of safety checks at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]
I refer the Committee to what I thought was a great speech made by Senator Wright just before his retirement on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
Nuclear material in Taiwan is subject to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the latest annual report of the Atomic Energy Authority in the United Kingdom states that nuclear power stations generated electric power 35 per cent more cheaply than coal fired power stations and 50 per cent more cheaply than oil fired power stations, with 16 nuclear power stations providing more than 15 per cent of the United Kingdom’s electric power needs? [More…]
I have not seen the report of the Atomic Energy Authority of the United Kingdom to which the honourable senator referred and from which he quoted quite extensively. [More…]
As I said in answer to Senator Sim’s question, I have not seen the full report of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. [More…]
Australian Atomic Energy Commission; [More…]
b) Atomic Energy Act 1953- Section 31. [More…]
b) Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Last week Senator Sim asked me a question about the report of the Atomic Energy Commission in the United Kingdom which I said I would seek to obtain and read. [More…]
I refer particularly to Estimates Committee B report in which concern was expressed about a report for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Committee was particularly concerned with the situation at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission where radio isotope production, which is a commercial undertaking of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and potential sales are being hampered as a result of the operation of staff ceilings. [More…]
Another matter raised concerned the marketing of radio-isotopes by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
We are talking about the effect of the policy on staff ceilings on an area of commercial enterprise within the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
We are not talking about government cutbacks and savings in government expenditure but about investment in labour in an area where there will be a return on investment and further revenue for the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Committee drew particular attention to the situation with regard to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the fact that its most recent report was not available for reasons which were not, on the face of it, the fault of the Commission. [More…]
I wish to make three short points in relation to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission estimates which appear under the Department of National Development. [More…]
There is now to be an inquiry into the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The question has loomed very largely in scientific discussion whether the AAEC should be actually reduced in status in this area to the extent that its currently quite dominant role in Australian atomic energy research should be reduced. [More…]
May I mention also under the heading of staffing that there has been a great deal of concern expressed by the relevant union, the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, that the staff ceilings and staff cuts which have been imposed at the Atomic Energy Commission research establishments are adversely affecting a variety of areas of work including safety operations and certainly including environmental controls and studies. [More…]
The third point that I make about the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is that it certainly appeared from the detailed discussion at the Estimates Committee, which I do not here rehearse with any elaboration, that the Australian Safeguards Office is a complete farce and charade. [More…]
It is and must remain a matter of concern that the Australian Safeguards Office clearly is not perceived to be in any way independent of the governmental structure; it is absorbed within the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
This involves a binding undertaking not to manufacture nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices and the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on the Republic of Korea’s nuclear industry to verify that material is not diverted from peaceful uses to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. [More…]
I refer to the Press statement of the Minister for National Development announcing the formation of the Division of Environmental Science within the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
He has had considerable administrative experience within the Government bureaucracy, was Atomic Energy Adviser to the High Commissioner in London for three years and has served on a number of international panels and committees concerned with the environmental and public health aspects of nuclear energy. [More…]
For a number of years he has chaired an Advisory Group to the International Atomic Energy Agency which has formulated limits and controls on the dumping of radioactive wastes in the ocean as required by the international ‘Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter’ and was associated with the development of the Agency’s regulations relating to the safe transport of radioactive materials. [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 Co. of Australasia Ltd as joint venturers. [More…]
In this regard honourable senators 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 41 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 41 A and 4 IB. [More…]
Essentially, the Bill deals with section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act, the section under which an authority to mine uranium is granted by the Minister for Trade and Resources. [More…]
The Ranger Joint Venturers 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…]
The third consequence of the legislation is that, as far as assignments of interests are concerned, the 1974 memorandum of understanding gave pre-emptive weight to the right to purchase, in the case of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s interest, to Peko Mines Ltd and the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd; and in the case of Peko ‘s interest, to EZ, and vice versa. [More…]
That is the inappropriateness of the Atomic Energy Act to regulate a commercial operation. [More…]
The Fox Ranger Inquiry report was very critical of the use of the Atomic Energy Act and the severe security provisions of that Act. [More…]
This is again a reference to the history of this matter and the undesirability of using the Atomic Energy Act for commercial purposes. [More…]
Might I say at the outset that I was not surprised at the reaction of the Opposition to the proposed amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
This is an important area because at present, as the Ranger venturers have pointed out that under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act there is no provision whatsoever for adequate security of tenure. [More…]
Shall grant any necessary and appropriate authorities under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I believe that the introduction of these amendments to the Atomic Energy Act amounts to an admission by the Government of how inappropriate this Act is as the legislative framework for the development and exploitation of uranium within Australia. [More…]
This conclusion of mine is not simply something to be deduced from the provisions of the Bill; it is quite explicit in the admission by the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony), in his second reading speech in another place where he says, of the Atomic Energy Act, that provisions to cover mining on a commercial basis were never included. [More…]
That disenchantment with the Minister in another place is understandable because, as I say, the Atomic Energy Act is quite inappropriate as as vehicle for the exploitation of mining of uranium for peaceful purposes and for commercial profit. [More…]
I would go further and say that not only is the legislative framework as a whole inappropriate and totally inadequate to deal with the situation but also that the decision of the Government to continue using this Act in the face of the admitted inadequacy alerts us to a possible further reason for maintaining the Atomic Energy Act as the legislation governing the development of the Ranger project. [More…]
The use of the Atomic Energy Act is in plain contradiction to the views expressed by the Ranger Commissioners. [More…]
There is a fatal flaw, a comprehensive flaw, distributed throughout the whole of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I really think that if one outlines some of the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, the answer to both questions emerges. [More…]
It may be, too, that under section 60 of this Act, the whole Ranger project has become an Approved Defence Project because of the contribution by the Atomic Energy Commission of working capital for the project. [More…]
This must be the explanation for the Government continuing with the Atomic Energy Act as the legislative framework for the development of the Ranger project, despite the very clear recommendation against it by the Ranger Inquiry Commissioners. [More…]
I am coming to the end of my remarks and I hope that honourable senators perceive why it is that the Opposition finds that merely to amend the Atomic Energy Act is in no way to ameliorate the situation created by its provisions. [More…]
I support the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
When one looks at the provisions of the old atomic energy legislation, which I think was introduced in 1945, relating to the mining of uranium, it is obvious that that legislation is quite outmoded. [More…]
I think many people have really forgotten that the mining of uranium in the Northern Territory is not something new but really commenced many years ago, in the late 1940s or early 1950s, at Moline east of Katherine and at Batchelor, Rum Jungle, where the Australian Atomic Energy Commission developed uranium. [More…]
I oppose the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
They are typically nations which, based on their known records, might not be at all averse to acquiring a number of dirty atom bombs- that is, high fall-out type atom bombs, the sort of crude device which can be produced in association with an ordinary power reactor at quite low cost and with access to quite limited technologyprecisely the type of atomic weapon which was produced by India through the use of its Candu reactor. [More…]
If in decades to come some of our fuel returns to us in the form of crude and dirty atomic bombs with their inevitable very high fallout rate, we shall have only ourselves to blame. [More…]
I quote from the International Atomic Energy Agency: [More…]
Already the Atomic Energy Commission has a new Environmental Division. [More…]
in reply- The Opposition, supported by the Australian Democrats, has used this Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act as a vehicle to debate and to oppose the Government’s policy to permit the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
It has been found that the existing provisions of the Atomic Energy Act which provide for an authority to mine under that Act, and which were drawn in completely different circumstances many years ago, are not appropriate to deal with authorities to be given for the commercial operation of uranium mining. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that the Government inherited from its predecessor, the Labor Government, a memorandum of understanding between the Government and uranium mining companies under which a joint venture operation was to be carried on under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
That is why the Government has proceeded with this joint venture agreement under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Is it a fact that staff ceilings have placed in jeopardy a wide range of safety checks at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission research establishment at Lucas Heights? [More…]
We also met representatives of all the political parties as well as leaders in the steel, atomic energy, electronics, motor vehicle and fishing industries. [More…]
Like so much of the industrial legislation for which this Government has been responsiblethe establishment of the Industrial Relations Bureau; the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act significantly increasing the scope of the punitive or penal powers under that legislation; and the Commonwealth Employees Act vesting powers of suspension, stand down or dismissal of public employees engaged in just about any conceivable form of industrial action; specific provisions of legislation like the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, aimed quite specifically and directly at particular forms of legitimate trade union protest- this Bill is just another crude and vulgar piece of legislative union-bashing. [More…]
What evidence, if any, is there to support public assertions in the letter columns of the Medical Journal of Australia of a possible link between the Monte Bello atomic tests of two decades ago and the later development of some forms of neoplastic disease? [More…]
The likelihood that there is a genuine correlation between radiation fall-out and the Monte Bello atomic tests is very small because of the measured negligible radiation dose to the community mentioned in the Medical Journal of Australia. [More…]
In the early 1970s, atomic power seemed the logical energy source for the last quarter of the century and utility companies ordered an average of 30 reactors a year to run their electricity generating plants. [More…]
Last year’s annual report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission stated that Australia could sell 10,000 tonnes of uranium in 1985. [More…]
The fact is that there are nations which have been shown to be lacking in responsibility as far as world peace is concerned and who have the money and the determination to obtain the plutonium which is the inevitable product of the nuclear power industry and which is also the major ingredient of dirty forms of atomic bombs in terms of fallout. [More…]
But we must add to that the fact that, during the currency of and after the French nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific, there was a very heavy atomic fallout in many parts of north Queensland. [More…]
That they oppose the construction of any additional reactor at the Australian Atomic Energy establishment at Lucas Heights in New South Wales. [More…]
We are fortunate in that Sir Winston Churchill made a statement in the House of Commons in April 1954 which exposed all the ramifications of the building of the atomic bomb. [More…]
Those scientists were working, on atomic energy. [More…]
Halban and Kowarski set up the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge as a pilot study on atomic energy. [More…]
On 13 August 1942 the Manhattan Project was born, with all the ramifications of atomic operations. [More…]
The review on ‘Atomic Harvest ‘ states: [More…]
Congress, grossly misled by the Executive Department as to the nature of the British contribution and the Anglo-American agreements, passed legislation which forbade the transfer of atomic energy data to any foreign country. [More…]
In the early summer of 1943 Stimson and Churchill discussed the atomic energy impasse. [More…]
A security organisation was established so Australia could not be a party to exposing or revealing American atomic secrets when it received them. [More…]
I had no atomic secrets that I could expose to anyone. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development, refers to statements made in last year’s meetings of Senates Estimates Committee B by Dr Miles, the Deputy Director of Operations of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Dr Miles told the Committee that because of staff ceilings there were safety problems in the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I understand that Dr Knight, the Atomic Energy Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Washington, has been in telephone contact with the Atomic Energy Commission on a regular basis, at least twice daily since last Friday. [More…]
Some 12 or 13 years ago my wife applied for a position as a librarian with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s establishment at Lucas Heights. [More…]
14 Atomic Energy Commission- Annual Report 1976-77-Paper. [More…]
177 Atomic Energy Commission- Annual Report 1977-78-Paper. [More…]
Those words ‘obstructing, hindering or interfering’ occur quite regularly throughout the statute books dealing with criminal law, industrial law and in legislation like the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Western intelligence sources said the explosion was actually from a plutonium stockpile and not an atomic waste cemetery as Medvedev had said. [More…]
Dr Tumerman said he witnessed the aftereffects of the catastrophe when he was travelling on the main north-south Urals Highway in June 1 96 1 , on his way to visit the construction site of the first major Russian atomic power plant … [More…]
In April 1977, and much closer to home, there was an incident at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]
I recognise the fact that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has never admitted responsibility publicly. [More…]
Even the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has predicted that there will be a big drop in world demand for uranium, yet we are still going ahead with the mining of uranium. [More…]
I have made visits to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, with a committee of the Senate on one occasion and on a private visit on another occasion. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (A.A.E.C.) [More…]
Australia is participating actively and constructively in international discussions on these matters in forums such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation. [More…]
The ANU project is being undertaken with the co-operation and support of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which recently awarded a $2 1 ,000 contract to Professor Ringwood for the purchase of research equipment and materials. [More…]
As these decisions affect every Australian, should it not be the responsibility of the Federal Government, in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission, to say whether atomic power stations should be built or not? [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 senators 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 1979 the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) signed the agreements and issued an authority under section 41 of the Atomic Energy Act to give effect to the Memorandum of Understanding. [More…]
In his Budget Speech of 15 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…]
Atomic Energy Act 1 953- s. 7 ( 1 ). [More…]
That provision relates to royalties with respect to mines mined under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Some weeks ago I watched a television program in which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission establishment at Lucas Heights was discussed. [More…]
I took this matter up during the sittings of Senate Estimates Committee F. I posed questions to representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission who gave evidence to the Committee. [More…]
I wish that the people who watched that television program could hear the answers given by Dr Miles, who is one of the most senior and most responsible people in the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
We know of the emotional and political concern and criticism that are expressed on the subject of atomic energy throughout the world. [More…]
A television station that should be accepting its responsibilities and putting both sides of the argument saw fit to give one side and to ignore some of the most responsible men in Australia who could have put a counter argument not so much about whether Lucas Heights is good, bad or indifferent, but rather about how atomic energy affects the community generally. [More…]
Some weeks ago I watched a television program in which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission establishment at Lucas Heights was discussed. [More…]
I took this matter up during the sittings of Senate Estimates Committee F. I posed questions to representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission who gave evidence to the Committee. [More…]
Senators will recall that the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution under the chairmanship of Senator Davidson exposed certain inadequate safety provisions of the Atomic Energy Commission at Rum Jungle. [More…]
I would like to know when the Department of Science and the Environment or the Atomic Energy Commission first started to rehabilitate the area, when the job will be completed and how much the job will cost. [More…]
Fortuitously, today Senator Webster presented to the Senate a report on radiological safety and future land use at the Maralinga atomic weapons test range, prepared by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]
Recently, when the National Party held its conference in Townsville, the invitees included representatives of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has made estimates of radon daughter and gamma ray exposure levels, which are five to ten times higher than estimates made by Queensland Mines in the environment impact statement. [More…]
Having reached that point- having dealt with those two Bills- surely it is unreasonable to expect us to go on to the remainder of the program for today, namely, the first reading debate on wine Bills and the second reading debate on wine Bills and then the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
It is quite true that when the Australian Atomic Energy Commission mined uranium some 25 years ago it did not engage in the safeguards and the environmental controls that are engaged in today. [More…]
Some examples of this are provided by the xerography process, the flame ionization detection unit, and the atomic absorption spectrometer of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
-Only last November the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) walked into the House of Representatives and admitted that the Atomic Energy Act was a totally unsatisfactory vehicle for the commercial exploitation of uranium in Australia. [More…]
In this chamber, a mere 7 months later, we are confronted by yet another amendment designed to remedy the latest defect discovered in the Atomic Energy Commission’s ability to manage the development of this Australian energy source. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the introduction of these further amendments to the Atomic Energy Act amounts to a further damning admission by this Government of how inappropriate this Act is as the legislative framework for the development and exploitation of uranium within Australia, particularly as it is claimed to be developed for- I believe this to be the casepeaceful purposes and commercial profit. [More…]
Why did the Fox inquiry commissioners recommend against the use of the Atomic Energy Act as a legislative framework for the development of our uranium resources? [More…]
This must be the explanation for the Government’s continuing with the Atomic Energy Act as a legislative framework for the development of the Ranger project despite the very clear recommendations made against it by the Ranger inquiry. [More…]
It is not good enough to say, as I have no doubt Senator Young will say, that the Labor Administration envisaged using the Atomic Energy Act as the legislative framework for the development of those resources. [More…]
My remarks made clear to honourable senators our general objection to the Atomic Energy Act even as it is proposed to be amended. [More…]
I now move to the amendment to the Act, which briefly is to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow moneys and issue securities, which are guaranteed by the Treasurer on behalf of the Commonwealth, to raise funds for the capital costs for the Ranger project in particular. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Commission will contribute 72 V4 per cent, the Peko company will contribute 13% per cent and the EZ company will also contribute 13% per cent. [More…]
The Opposition’s fundamental point concerning this amendment is that the Atomic Energy Commission ought not continue to combine the functions of a research establishment, a regulatory and safeguards body and a commercial operator with respect to atomic energy materials or processes. [More…]
Its leader, the future Prime Minister, Bill Hayden, has very properly and constructively responded to an advertisement in the national Press calling for submissions to the National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council inquiry into research and development activities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Amongst other things, it proposed that the current functions of the Atomic Energy Commission be divided. [More…]
The Opposition proposes that the Atomic Energy Act be repealed and replaced by legislation to give effect to a number of proposals. [More…]
Secondly, a new government corporation should be established to take over the present commercial activities of the Atomic Energy Commission, such as the production and marketing of radio-isotopes. [More…]
Other research functions currently being performed by the Atomic Energy Commission ought to be performed as appropriate by a nuclear science authority with projects funded by a national fuel and energy commission, consistent with research and development priorities determined for a national energy policy. [More…]
There may be allocations of funds to commercial as opposed to regulatory sections within the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Atomic Energy Commission may lack independence and integrity of command and fail to enforce optimum safeguards. [More…]
Therefore, the Opposition will oppose the amendments provided in the Bill which continue to try to give to the Atomic Energy Commissioners conflicting roles. [More…]
The Coombs Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration suggested in very moderate language that there may well be a case for reconsidering the form, structure and the functions of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Opposition says that the commercial exploitation for peaceful purposes of uranium energy resources at Ranger or elsewhere, if it is to be undertaken by any statutory authority whether in partnership or alone, ought to be undertaken by a body with a charter for entrepreneurial activities only- certainly not by the presently constituted Commission within the framework of the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
Atomic Energy Commission within a peace oriented legislative framework. [More…]
I am very concerned that the terms of reference of the NERDDC inquiry may have predetermined that the Government will make the Australian Atomic Energy Commission the central authority for a wide range of research activities in Australia. [More…]
The Opposition says that rather than the types of energy research undertaken by the Atomic Energy Commission being expanded, the Commission should do what it does best- that is, nuclear research- as a nuclear science authority. [More…]
The conflict of roles within the Australian Atomic Energy Act needs to be resolved. [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…]
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…]
This afternoon we are dealing with amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
As the Government pointed out in August 1978, there is a need for the Commonwealth to share a proportion of the cost in developing the Ranger uranium deposits to which Senator Tate has referred this afternoon and that these funds would be raised by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission through borrowings. [More…]
the purpose of this Bill is to enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow monies 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 monies- borrowed other than from the Commonwealth- and to provide that where securities are issued by the Commonwealth, repayment is guaranteed by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Also, because of many of these things, amendments to the Atomic Energy Act are necessary. [More…]
The main thrust of the Opposition’s argument so far today has been that it is opposed to the Atomic Energy Commission’s having itself involved in any way in commercial dealings. [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…]
In other words, it is spelt out very clearly and concisely that the Atomic Energy Commission will be sole agent for the selling of uranium but that the other two partners, the two companies, could sell other minerals. [More…]
Perhaps one could go further and refer to the Twenty-third Annual Report of 1 974-75 for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I remind the Senate again that this is the report of the Atomic Energy Commission dealing with the year 1974-75 when the Whitlam Government was in power and the Commission was working under the policies of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
In all fairness to Senator Tate, we have previously heard the Labor Party argue on other aspects of mining, not just the Atomic Energy Act, but other aspects. [More…]
-He made it clear in that statement that they will have to turn to atomic energy. [More…]
If they are going to turn to atomic energy, then countries with uranium must supply that uranium. [More…]
Because of these energy gaps, because of the need for Australia to play its part in supplying uranium, and because of the need for us to back up the safeguards laid down by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) soon after we came into power, it has been necessary for us again to amend the Atomic Energy Act so as to allow the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to play its part as a commercial partner with the other two partners in the Ranger consortium, Whilst we are hearing criticism from the Opposition today, this Government is merely applying those safeguards and making the Act efficient so that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission can become an efficient partner. [More…]
I certainly oppose the amendment, not just because it is proposed by the Opposition and not just because I do not think it is necessary, but because the Opposition, to be quite honest, is not really concerned about amendments to the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
I rise to oppose this Bill which would enable the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow money on the open money market to finance the development of the Ranger uranium deposit and the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We are critical of the Government’s determination to develop Ranger, we are critical of the Government’s use of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for this purpose, and we are certainly critical of the Government for persisting in its efforts to mine and export uranium. [More…]
It is indicative of the difficulty and the trouble the world is having in finding any real solution to the disposal of atomic waste. [More…]
The Japanese Atomic Energy Commission planned to have 100,000 MW of nuclear power installed by 1990. [More…]
Of course, that is partly because they work under the Atomic Energy Act. [More…]
-I will speak very briefly- in fact only for about ten minutes- in support of the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill. [More…]
At a later date, when I have a bit more time, I will go a bit more deeply into the background of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and expand on its great significance to Australia. [More…]
There has been some recent ill-informed criticism of the whole operation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Given the present circumstances in Australia, given the high capital cost of the nuclear industry and given the scarcity of trained scientific workers in this field, the type of operation we are running at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission at the present time from a management point of view is the best that we can do. [More…]
This Bill deals with the commercial activities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and it sets up a base on which the Commission can give loan guarantees and things of that nature. [More…]
I think it is relevant to look at the commercial activities of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission up until the present time because they have been of enormous benefit to Australia. [More…]
The figures that I shall quote are based on an extrapolation of data published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Those few descriptions of the commercial applications of the work of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission demonstrate the great benefit of the Commission to Australia and the air of responsibility with which it has judged its efforts. [More…]
At a later date when more time is available I would like to develop more fully in the Senate the case of the scientific basis under which the management of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is operated. [More…]
The Bill that the Senate is discussing is designed to allow the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to borrow money so that it may enter into a partnership with Peko Mines Ltd and Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd in the Ranger uranium project. [More…]
We would like to see a sensible division of powers, because of the changing circumstances in which the Australian Atomic Energy Commission now operates. [More…]
I repeat that the Atomic Energy Commission’s charge of $18 an hour is an imposition on the taxpayers of this country. [More…]
At the end of my visit to the Atomic Energy Commission, at the public briefing that is commonly held at these public relations sessions, I asked whether in fact this figure was an accurate one. [More…]
I simply cannot believe that the Atomic Energy Commission would have the temerity to introduce such a policy itself. [More…]
I turn to the 1977-78 annual report of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
My query is as to why it does not pay those prices to the Atomic Energy Commission and why the Government allows that situation to continue, then comes to us and wants us to approve the Atomic Energy Commission’s entering into another big business enterprise. [More…]
I ask the Government to look hard at its priorities and to try to straighten out this matter before it comes to the Senate and asks it to approve the Atomic Energy Commission ‘s entering into other business undertakings. [More…]
I must, of course, consider the possibility that the Government provides these chemical and forensic services at very low cost to popularise the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, to make it seem a very busy organisation with its services very much in demand. [More…]
I turn my attention to another aspect of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission which seems uneconomic. [More…]
When I visited the Atomic Energy Commission I was told, for instance, that a complex and delicate chemical analysis of three pubic hairs was carried out to obtain evidence for a rape case. [More…]
Because of that, the Australian Democrats would like to see the Atomic Energy Commission transformed into an energy department so that the expert people it employs who are not specialist particles physicists can devote their efforts to other sources of energy that, although we have made some important startsand I must give the Government credit for that- we are still substantially neglecting in this country. [More…]
However, the Opposition ‘s amendment opposes the use of the Atomic Energy Commission as the instrument for the development of the Ranger deposits by the Peko-EZ consortium. [More…]
It gives the Atomic Energy Commission power to borrow moneys for the commercial arrangements which have already been entered into and to carry out decisions which have long since been made by the Government and about which there has been considerable progress in implementation. [More…]
As Senator Young pointed out, the decision to use the Atomic Energy Act and the Atomic Energy Commission for the purpose of developing the Ranger uranium resource was taken by the Labor Government. [More…]
It was their decision to use the Atomic Energy Commission for the development of Ranger. [More…]
As Senator Young has pointed out, they had grandiose schemes for the Atomic Energy Commission in the commercial development of uranium. [More…]
Our Government has honoured the arrangements that were entered into by those companies with the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
As a result of the Labor Government’s doctrinaire socialistic policies and mismanagement we are lumbered with this arrangement with the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
When we came to implement the arrangement we discovered that the Atomic Energy Commission lacked the legal powers to carry it out. [More…]
It did not consider the morrow at all and it did not consider whether the Atomic Energy Commission had the legal powers or not. [More…]
We have had to bring down a series of amendments to the Atomic Energy Act to enable this commercial arrangement entered into by the Labor Government to be carried out. [More…]
Other powers have been given under the Atomic Energy Act to give effect to the agreements that had been entered into. [More…]
It simply enables the Atomic Energy Commission to borrow funds that are necessary for that purpose. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment sets out its theory of how the Atomic Energy Commission should be split into three. [More…]
Our Government has asked the National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council to consider the research and development activities of the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Any question of altering the powers or structure of the Atomic Energy Commission will be considered by the Government when it has received that report. [More…]
It would be quite absurd to embark upon such a major revamping and restructuring of the Atomic Energy Commission before that important report is received. [More…]
Article 43 of the Ranger Uranium Agreement signed on 9 January 1979 sets out procedures for the disposal of the interest of any party in the project, and provides that before disposing of its interest, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission- which is, of course, the Government body involved- must give the other partners, Peko and EZ, a first right of refusal. [More…]
Mining and minerals (including gases and hydrocarbon fuels but excluding the mining of uranium or other prescribed substances within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 and regulations under that Act as in force from time to time); [More…]
The Government endorses the importance of those nuclear safety standards which have been and may be agreed upon in international discussions in forums such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). [More…]
I refer to the statement made in the Senate by Senator Carrick on 29 May 1978 relating to the use of the Atomic Energy Act 1953 in respect of commercial uranium operations and its effect on civil liberties. [More…]
In response to debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill 1978, Senator Carrick, on behalf of the Minister for National Development, stated: [More…]
Now that particular aspects of the Atomic Energy Act may bc used, it is a good time to reflect and amend if necessary. [More…]
I recall the statement made by the Leader of the Government, Senator Carrick, in response to the debate on the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill in 1978. [More…]
Inquiries had to be made of the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Transport, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Defence and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) is the only other Commonwealth agency known to be discharging wastes into the Georges River system. [More…]
Of course, that is the raw material of nuclear power and of the atomic bomb. [More…]
I stress the atomic bomb aspect particularly because I feel that a distinction should be drawn between more sophisticated nuclear weapons such as the hydrogen bomb, which holds the so-called balance of terror, and the atomic bomb. [More…]
The world has gone through what could be called a very bad scene over dirty nuclear weapons of a small size, which were in effect the type of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [More…]
The European Atomic Energy Community- will, when concluded, supersede the provisions where appropriate of any safeguards agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom. [More…]
If we, and the Government, are so naive as not to believe that Australia is going to play its part in this dismal affair and lead the world into this endless proliferation of dirty, small atomic weapons, then I suggest that we are all a great deal more naive than we should be. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Science and the Environment aware of a report carried by the Australian Press earlier this month that an accident at the French Muroroa Atoll atomic testing range may have been responsible for several deaths, a number of other casualties and a minor tidal wave? [More…]
-My attention was drawn to an article that appeared in one of the media about a month or six weeks ago which purported to give the views of a group, as I understood it, as to what may have been the effects of the atomic blasts at Muroroa Atoll. [More…]
Is the honourable senator questioning, for instance, the figures given by Mr Higson and Mr Crancher of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in their paper of October 1 976? [More…]
atomic reactor safety hearings 1973 p. 56) 1957, October-Windscale No. [More…]
(Source: D. Higson and D. W. Crancher Australian Atomic Energy Commission ) 1969 Irish Sea [More…]
(Private investigation by Or Edward Martell was necessary because the Atomic Energy Commission, which owned the plant, and Dow Chemicals, which operated it under contract, refused to do sampling in the area). [More…]
At the symposium of the International Atomic Energy Agency it was revealed that reprocessing plants ‘lost’ through liquid and solid discharges, 1.5% of the materials they process. [More…]
“Wall Street Journal “3rd May, 1973 1973, 20th April, Hanford, U.S.A. 100,000,000 gallons of atomic wastes stored in containers whose life is 30-40 years. [More…]
Nearly all 2,000 employees at Windscale atomic centre were affected. [More…]
(Source: D. Higson and D. W. Crancher, Australian Atomic Energy Commission) 1974-Big Rock, Michigan, U.S.A. [More…]
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists quoted the following incidents: “In August, 1971 an intruder penetrated past guard towers and fences to enter the grounds of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant at Vernon, Vermont” and “In November, 1971 arson caused $5-10 million damage at the Indian Point No. [More…]
*Four Commonwealth Policemen died of cancer after working at the atomic bomb test site. [More…]
French Atomic Energy Commission reported leak in experimental reactor at Cadarache nuclear research centre in Southern France. [More…]
Reports of prisoners dying through atomic radiation from A Shifrin the Director of a centre in the soviet Union that investigates the Concentration Camps and Psychiatric Prisons in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
Some of these camps are near atomic submarine bases. [More…]
Mr Hugh Spence of the Atomic Energy Control Board said that the Gentilly reactor was fraught with problems from the beginning. [More…]
Five movie stars have died of radioactivity from atomic bomb tests fallout in Nevada testing site conducted in 1953. [More…]
The former British atomic test site at Maralinga will not be considered safe until 2029 according to a report by the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council. [More…]
Six Drums of plutonium have been dug up and returned to Britain in order to meet International Atomic Energy Safety standards. [More…]
Sunday Times “5.8.79 “Sunday Telegraph “ 5.8.79 “Nuclear power plant safety- The risks of accidents” in “Atomic Energy” October 1976 No. [More…]
4 by D. Hughson and D. W. Crancher of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission “ A.M. “ Program Australian Broadcasting Commission 30 July 1979 [More…]
The Ranger agreement, which was signed on 9 January 1979 between the Government, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and Peko and EZ companies, is strictly a production joint venture agreement and does not extend to marketing or sale arrangements. [More…]
Is it true that the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been advised that the security at its Lucas Heights reactor is inadequate? [More…]
Has the Atomic Energy Commission also been advised that at least one of the important buildings at Lucas Heights will not withstand a natural disaster such as an earthquake? [More…]
In view of the answer the Minister has just given to the previous question, can he assure the Senate that any developments that may take place in other parts of Australia will be of such a standard as not to require future advice of the nature given to the Atomic Energy Commission? [More…]
Senator Wriedt has asked a specific question in relation to a safety standard in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The International Atomic Energy Agency should now be given monitoring responsibilities over the enrichment of uranium to make certain that highly enriched uranium- the 90 per cent level, the bomb material- is not being produced. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to this morning’s Press report concerning the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ordering the immediate closure of an atomic fuel fabrication plant in Tennessee, which reported the loss of uranium suitable for making nuclear weapons. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission’s contribution to the capital cost of the project is estimated to be in excess of $2 30m, excluding interest on borrowings, representing 72’/i per cent of the total capital cost of the project. [More…]
In many cases this happened even when the scientists concerned could not envisage any useful application, as Rutherford failed to see for atomic energy. [More…]
In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]
If one looks through the report of Senator Rae’s committee on the statutory bodies in this field one finds the following bodies listed: The Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, Applied Ecology Pty Ltd, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, the Bureau of Statistics, the Industrial Research and Development Incentives Board, the Institute of Aboriginal Studies, the Institute of Anatomy, the Institute of Criminology, the Institute of Marine Science, the Australian Maritime College, the Australian Meat Research Committee, the Australian National University, the Australian Postal Commission, the Telecommunications Commission, the Australian Tobacco Board, the Trade Union Training Authority, the Australian Wine Board, the Australian [More…]
There is a general lack of debate in the community of a rational nature about atomic energy, what it means, how safe it is, what its prospects are and whether it is worthwhile as part of the intellectual debate about science policy in this country. [More…]
On 29 August this year I asked the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) whether he was aware of a report carried by the Australian Press earlier in the month that an accident at the French Mururoa Atoll atomic testing range may have been responsible for several deaths, a number of other casualties and a minor tidal wave. [More…]
The French Atomic Energy Commission confirmed that there had been two recent accidents at Mururoa Atoll. [More…]
After these accidents in July, the French Polynesian Territorial Assembly, the popularly elected representatives of the people who live in the area, resolved that the French Government had to suspend atomic testing at Mururoa until a Territorial commission of inquiry had carried out its own inquiry into safety at the site. [More…]
The French Government inquiry has five members, two of whom are members of the Atomic Energy Commission, which insists that the July accidents were industrial accidents with nothing to do with nuclear tests. [More…]
Mr J. J. Humphreys, Acting Director, External Relations Office, Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Mr G. Battey, Head, Uranium Resources Evaluation Unit, Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
International spent fuel management is currently receiving attention in an expert study being carried out under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency in which Australia is participating. [More…]
We must also fight to ensure that the International Atomic Energy Agency is given effective monitoring responsibilities over the enrichment of uranium to make certain that highly enriched uraniumthe 90 per cent weapons grade material- is not being produced. [More…]
Is it a fact that the publication of this sensitive information is contemplated by section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act or sections of the Crimes Act? [More…]
In addition, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has been requested to comment. [More…]
Will the Minister undertake an examination of a submission by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission for a Hifar reactor in view of the alternative view that isotopes can be produced close to hospitals without the use of nuclear materials at about 10 per cent of the cost of a replacement nuclear reactor? [More…]
The affairs of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are under the control of the Minister for National Development. [More…]
Nothing in it suggests that, provided the military arrangements are satisfactory, strategic arms limitation talks should not proceed and be extended; that there should not be universal and complete disarmament, abolition of atomic weapons and all of the other things which we need if we are to live in a safe world. [More…]
The Atomic Energy Act- he said that the most that can be done is a memorandum from the Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department, Mr Harders. [More…]
Firstly, the Atomic Energy Act Memorandum would be okay. [More…]
The Minister for National Development has indicated that the design cost study for a new nuclear reactor, possibly to replace the reactor at Lucas Heights, is being undertaken by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I put that aside because the matter to which I refer is ‘ one of direct and continuing concern to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and one which I note occurs in every one of its reports. [More…]
I refer to the technical knowledge and expertise that, to my knowledge, only the Atomic Energy Commission possesses, being applied to a more active extent in ensuring the safety of the increasing numbers of persons who are engaged in uranium mining in this country. [More…]
It behoves this Parliament and the Atomic Energy Commission to ensure that such risks as there might be are minimised. [More…]
This is a matter to which the Atomic Energy Commission should address itself. [More…]
The Senate might well suggest that the Atomic Energy Commission consider that aspect closely. [More…]
I ask that the Atomic Energy Commission direct its attention urgently to this matter, expecially since the levels of alpha radiation that can be regarded as safe are very much a matter of dispute. [More…]
Officers of my Department, and, I understand, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, will be studying Dr Roy’s claims when those details become available. [More…]
The ANU project is being undertaken with the support and cooperation of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
It is a fact that in Washington State there are wastes which are the result of the United States atomic bomb program and which have been in short term storage for 30 years or more. [More…]
Once one has committed oneself anywhere in the world to having nuclear waste in storage one also has a security problem because of the risk of criticality and subsequent atomic explosion of plutonium stored as waste or as a result of deliberate action by states or criminal individuals. [More…]
I would like to point out through you, Mr President, to honourable senators that there is a very wide range of opinion that an atomic explosion did occur in northern Russia which has been kept secret and which was a result of a small amount of plutonium stored in trenches coming together accidentally and reaching a critical stage. [More…]
I might say in relation to an answer by the Minister earlier that it is to be hoped the Minister will ask AIRAC to get a balanced point of view on Dr Roy’s controversial alleged method which he claims will neutralise atomic waste. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has advised that it is not aware of any record of any incident or malfunction causing injury or damage to persons or property adjacent to enrichment plants. [More…]
I wish to refer to some answers that I have received from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission in response to my questions when its officers came before Senate Estimates Committee B. I asked those questions because of my concern about certain things that were stated and recorded in the Senate Hansard of 29 August. [More…]
On reading it I was very concerned at some of the items that had been included and took it up with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
Having made inquiries from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission the Committee eventually received a reply as follows: [More…]
That statement was made by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The reason I bring this matter up tonight is that although I accept that, as I have said, there are people who are opposed- for reasons they think justified- it concerns me that members of this place should purposely set to work to have incorporated in Hansard statements which, as the Australian Atomic Energy Commission has said, are misleading. [More…]
As set out in Annex 1 to the report of Estimates Committee B, at page 23, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission replied further as follows: [More…]
The answer received from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was as follows: [More…]
The answer from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission stated emphatically: [More…]
The answer from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission was as follows: [More…]
If one turns to annex 2 of the Atomic Energy Commission’s explanation one sees the heading ‘Random examples of quotations out of context, incomplete or of no nuclear health and safety implication’. [More…]
Inquiries with the Australian Atomic Energy Commission revealed that the deaths were caused by steam burns and that radioactivity was not significant. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators that they should look at the report of Senate Estimates Committee B and read the factual answers given by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
The people in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission are responsible people. [More…]
I would rather take notice of what people in the Australian Atomic Energy Commission tell me than take notice of inserts like this in the Senate Hansard. [More…]
My first question to him is whether, accepting for the moment the good faith of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, it had available to it the report to the United States President resulting from the Harrisburg incident. [More…]
A further and perhaps more pertinent matter regarding the manner of Senator Young’s presentation was his use of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to bolster his own political view. [More…]
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission has a combination of functions to perform. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party maintains that the research effort in atomic energy in Australia ought to be hived off and separated from the entrepreneurial effort and, of course, that safeguards ought to be in the hands of a completly independent and impartial body. [More…]
Finally, as to the actual scientific status of the remarks that Senator Young bestowed upon us concerning an important accident, all he was able to say and all the Atomic Energy Commission said- on which he built so much of his argument- was that the Commission could say with reasonable certainty that it knew the cause of a particular accident which by some has been ascribed to a serious breakdown. [More…]
I come finally to Senator Tate’s point in relation to the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
In April 1977 Australia’s first victim died as a result of being exposed to radiation at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission ‘s nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. [More…]
In December 1977 at Maralinga four Commonwealth policemen died of cancer after working at the atomic bomb test site. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the Atomic Energy Amendment Act. [More…]
In the case of radioactive materials, the requirements are based on the International Atomic Energy Agency regulations Tor the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials. [More…]
International spent fuel management is currently receiving attention in a study being carried out under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in which Australia is participating. [More…]
In respect of (d) an importer of radioactive chemicals for industrial use must obtain a permission to import from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I, on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen), 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…]