Following Friday’s Hunter Valley earthquake, Dutton’s energy spokesman, Ted O’Brien, says a Coalition government would review the sites if elected.
Proposed nuclear sites would be abandoned if studies reveal unacceptable risks, the Coalition has declared following an earthquake near its planned Hunter Valley site, raising questions about other selected locations close to geological fault lines.
Associate Professor Edward Obbard, a nuclear materials engineer at UNSW, said all nuclear reactors were constructed to withstand far greater seismic disturbances than last week’s Hunter Valley earthquake. The area regularly experiences tremors, with a magnitude 4.4 quake in 2019 the most-recent significant magnitude.
Latrobe Valley resident Wendy Farmer, president of the Voices of the Valley group, is helping to establish an alliance of anti-nuclear groups from the communities selected for plants. Hunter Community Environment Centre co-ordinator Jo Lynch said she was concerned about nuclear waste, considering the millions of tonnes of fly ash stored in dams across her region.
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