Australian authorities have created a government agency to control the circulation of radioactive waste in connection with the construction of nuclear submarines. TASS.
“The Agency will be responsible for all matters relating to the nuclear component of this program and will assume a regulatory function,” Secretary of Defense Richard Marles said. said.
He noted that the first planned decommissioning of a nuclear reactor from submarines is not planned before 2050, but it is necessary to work on the infrastructure to service nuclear submarines.
Richard Miles, former head of the Australian Department of Defense declarationThat SSN-AUKUS nuclear submarines will belong to a new class created specifically for the Australian Navy under the AUKUS partnership agreements (military alliance of Australia, UK and USA) and will become a joint project of London and Canberra.
Source: Gazeta
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