Australia hasn't figured out low-level nuclear waste storage yet – let alone high-level waste from submarines
- Written by: Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University
Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines.
To date, criticism of the deal has largely focused on whether our unstable geopolitical...
