SA Premier Peter Malinauskas hits back at suggestions from his Labor counterparts in Victoria and WA that his state should take nuclear waste from the future AUKUS fleet.
But while Mr Malinauskas said that the possibility of SA taking waste could not be ruled out, he rejected Mr Andrews's claim that SA had a responsibility to take the waste because it was taking the jobs."What should inform the decision about where the nuclear waste goes isn't some domestic political tit-for-tat or some state-based parochialism.
"This decision of the federal government needs to be done in a thoughtful, considered way and … the test that should be applied to where the nuclear waste is stored in Australia should be where is the safest place," he said.On ABC Radio Adelaide this morning, Mr Malinauskas was pressed further about Mr Andrews's comment and asked whether he had a point, to which Mr Malinauskas replied: "No, no he doesn't.
Australia's first SSN-AUKUS submarine will be constructed in Barrow-in-Furness, with the first Australian-made model constructed at Osborne, near Port Adelaide, expected to be delivered to the Royal Australian Navy by the early 2040s. "We know that we're going to have to embed workers from South Australia right here in Barrow as well as in the US to try and transfer some of that knowledge, but we also know that in a purpose-built facility like this one that there are key pieces of sharing of intelligence that can be passed on."
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