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Site for high-level nuclear waste dump under AUKUS deal must be in national interest, SA premier says

Richard Marles says the nuclear waste facility would not be needed until the 2050s. (US Defense Department)

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas says an approved radioactive waste dump near Kimba will not handle spent fuel rods from AUKUS subs, which will instead be stored on defence land. 

The Minister for Defence Richard Marles announced yesterday that nuclear reactors powering the SSN-AUKUS Royal Australian Navy submarines would be made in the United Kingdom, but would be stored in Australia when they were decommissioned.

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