Green advocates in Argentina have scored an early-round legal win in their campaign to prevent the importation of spent nuclear fuel from an Argentine-built nuclear-research reactor in Australia. Waste produced by a new research reactor that Argentina’s state-controlled high-technology company Invap has built for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto), was to have been vitrified in Argentina if Ansto requests it and returned to Australia for disposal. But a three-judge federal appeals panel in the Argentine city of Bahía Blanca has issued an order prohibiting the arrangement, which Ansto has not yet sought to use. The decision, made public last month, reverses a lower court’s rejection of a complaint that a green activist filed to challenge the... [Log in to read more]