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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Greens attack Albanese government’s ‘deeply unsettling’ secrecy on submarine nuclear waste plans

mock radioactive barrels
The Albanese government cited national security concerns when rejecting a Senate order for documents on plans for storing nuclear waste from Australia’s Aukus submarines. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance Archive/Alamy

Labor and the Coalition have been accused of taking a “deeply unsettling approach” to transparency around Aukus after the major parties blocked the publication of documents about nuclear safety and waste issues.

The government cited national security concerns when it rejected a Senate order to produce documents, including those about options to manage operational waste from the nuclear-powered submarine program.

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