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Of special concern is the transportation of nuclear waste materials, which we have consistently opposed.

Attention was also given to dealing with radioactive waste, radiation safety and the safety of nuclear installations.

(d) Adoption of an EAU inter State agreement on the storage of nuclear wastes.

These include measures to prohibit military activities, nuclear explosions and the disposal of radioactive waste.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

In addition, there should be sustained efforts to combat a major residual problem of the nuclear industry the disposal of nuclear and radioactive wastes.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

There had been reports that nuclear waste had been buried in insecure containers in the Golan.

We believe that highest standards in nuclear safety, radiation protection, and waste management in all areas of nuclear applications are essential for the continued development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Increasingly, our security is threatened by the enormous deposits of nuclear waste on land and at sea.

These include nuclear waste disposal, the end of the nuclear fuel cycle, legal responsibility for nuclear damage, and associated insurance of nuclear power plant operators.

Consistent with our belief in a nuclear free world, waste dumping in the Pacific Ocean is not to be encouraged.

We deeply appreciate the Agency apos s contributions in the promotion of international cooperation in the field of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management.

Through those practices, Israel is destroying the environment of the occupied Arab territories. Further, it is burying nuclear and toxic wastes from Israeli industrial sites.

Projections of the future contributions of nuclear energy are highly uncertain, due to the concerns that exist about safety, radioactive waste management, potential proliferation of nuclear weapons and vulnerability to terrorists.

To this end, Norway has proposed the establishment of an international action plan for nuclear waste management, matched by an international fund similar to the nuclear safety account in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Of the 42 resolutions on disarmament issues adopted by the Assembly at its last session, 15 deal with various ways of controlling nuclear arms, the management of nuclear waste, the banning of nuclear tests and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Ensuring the safety of nuclear installations, managing radioactive waste, promoting various applications of nuclear technology and providing technical assistance all these activities depend on the confidence that nuclear energy and technology are used exclusively for peaceful purposes.

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Being located in the region that has been afflicted by terrorism, Uganda is concerned by the stockpiles of nuclear waste being dumped off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia. The nuclear and toxic dump can very easily constitute an arsenal for the terrorists in their quest for weapons of mass destruction.

The IAEA has assisted countries in all aspects of the application of peaceful nuclear science and technology, from nuclear power planning and development and waste management to assistance in non nuclear power technologies.

The Nordic countries and Russia are planning an international conference on nuclear waste management, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The nuclear industry s very existence is dependent on hidden public subsidies costs borne by society in the event of nuclear disaster, as well as the costs of the still unmanaged disposal of nuclear waste.

It further recognizes that the Antarctic Treaty provides for the demilitarization of the continent, the prohibition of nuclear explosions and the disposal of nuclear wastes, the freedom of scientific research and the free exchange of scientific information.

18. Finally, Papua New Guinea strongly endorsed the South Pacific Forum apos s decision to oppose the dumping of nuclear waste in the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of facilities for the storage or incineration of such waste, as well as transboundary movements of toxic waste and nuclear testing in the region.

Further, the draft Act would restrain the United States from utilizing the waters surrounding Guam for the dumping or storage of nuclear waste and would oblige the United States to clean up all chemical waste sites used by the military.

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His delegation therefore called for strengthened technical cooperation to assist developing countries in monitoring nuclear materials and for the establishment of strict controls to regulate nuclear waste disposal activities.

India joined the consensus on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.9, entitled Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes .

The burying of Israeli nuclear waste allegedly continues in a tract of land close to the Syrian border in the vicinity of Jabal al Sheikh summit.

The high priority placed by my Government on nuclear waste management is reflected in its voluntary contributions to the IAEA in support of the RADWASS programme.

Nuclear issues and transboundary movements of hazardous and radioactive wastes are also of considerable concern to us in the South Pacific region.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

Further recognizing the importance of the work of the Agency on nuclear power, applications of nuclear methods and techniques, nuclear safety, radiological protection and radioactive waste management, including its work directed towards assisting developing countries in all these fields,

(c) Solid waste All wastes are sampled and segregated to determine the correct waste stream for disposal or long term storage.

International regulations and standards for radioactive protection, national strategies for nuclear energy development, and safety and radioactive waste management measures have been substantially revised.

A toxic nuclear dump can very easily serve as an arsenal for terrorists in their quest for weapons of mass destruction.