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IN the mire of technical jargon at the hearings of the Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission South Australia, sometimes a little gem emerges on what they really want to happen.

Ploughing through the pitch of James Voss  for importing radioactive trash, at the 15th October hearing,  Philip White alerted me to this little gem, from Voss:

“There clearly has to be a siting undertaking – siting of facility for storage. Within that, there has to be a broad set of agreements with the host – with South Australia…. This might be an equivalency to the indenture agreement between Olympic Dam and the state.”

Sounds inoccuous, doesn’t it?  But as Philip White says: “The indenture agreement precedent might sound great for them, but we need to expose the racism of that approach.”

Nectaria Calan comments – “That’s really interesting and corroborates our suspicions that the indenture is indeed a dangerous precedent…