Nuclear Hotseat #269: Pt. 2 - Australia World's Nuke Waste Dump?

Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 6:22 p.m.

Dave Sweeney is the national nuclear campaigner for the Australian Conservation Foundation. This week, we get to the heart of the international manipulation – dare I call it a conspiracy? – to dump the world’s nuclear waste in the land down under. It includes LATE BREAKING NEWS of the international manipulations and decades of planning that has gone into convincing Australians to accept the nuclear industry’s plans to turn their country into the world’s nuclear ash tray. Of course, Rupert Murdoch is involved. Context for understanding UK and European nuclear issues with Shaun McGee reporting from Ireland. West Lake Landfill/EPA community meeting hit by activist “die-in” to make the point of the nuclear dangers. Interview w/die-in organizer Alex Cohen of Soul Much Water.