The government has plans to temporarily store nuclear waste arising from its AUKUS contracts on Garden Island.
It comes as the chiefs of navy of the three AUKUS countries — the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia — met for the first time at the HMAS Stirling naval base on Garden Island, 50 kilometres south of the Perth CBD and about five kilometres off the coast of Rockingham, where the submarines will dock and be serviced.It will be a workshop for servicing and repairing the nuclear submarines and will temporarily store the waste.
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy has sought to reassure the community about a planned radioactive waste site on HMAS Stirling naval base, off Rockingham.But federal Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy has sought to ease those concerns, saying there was no risk to the community. But Mr Conroy did not say where that would be, only that it would be on defence land to be acquired by the defence forces.