Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on uranium resources

This report contains results of an inquiry into developments since the completion of the Ranger Inquiry in 1977 which have a bearing on the mining, processing and sale of South Australian uranium resources. The Committee was not unanimous in its conclusions and recommendations. Three members concluded that the benefits of mining deposits in the State would be considerable to the South Australian Community and that the hazards in connection with the mining, milling, transport, further treatment and storage of uranium could be overcome by the imposition of the stringent application of safeguards at all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. Other conclusions and recommendations related to radiation protection, mine safety, contaiment of mill tailings, the nuclear fuel cycle, marketing, transport and safeguards. Two members recommended that uranium mining should not proceed in South Australia at this time and one member dissented to some matters in the report. Major concerns related to waste disposal and safeguards