TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE
TERMS OF REFERENCE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
PREAMBLE
MAJOR FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER 1: CONTEMPORARY MINING & MILLING OF URANIUM
IN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER 2: URANIUM MINING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 3: THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST*
CHAPTER 4: HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTERS
CHAPTER 5: IMPACT OF URANIUM MINING & MILLING ON
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES
CHAPTER 6: INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARDS AND RELATED MATTERS
MINORITY REPORT BY SENATOR MARGETTS AND SENATOR LEES
APPENDICES
[Note: Some Appendices are not provided in full in the on-line version
of this report. Appendices may be obtained from the Committee or the Commonwealth
Government Bookshop.]
Appendix P1: List of written submissions
Appendix P2: List of hearings, witnesses and site visits
Appendix 1.1: In situ leaching method of extracting
uranium
Appendix 1.2: Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry,
1976-77
Appendix 1.3: Principal findings and recommendations of the Ranger inquiry
Appendix 1.4: 1991 estimates of future demand for uranium
Appendix 1.5: Comments in this inquiry on future demand
for uranium
Appendix 1.6: Selected figures on operating results
of Ranger and Olympic Dam mines
Appendix 2.1: Draft guidelines for an Environmental Statement on the
proposed development of Jabiluka No. 2 uranium mine
Appendix 2.2: Legislation applicable to uranium mining
at Ranger
Appendix 2.3: Legislation applicable to uranium mining
at Olympic Dam
Appendix 2.4: Functions of the Supervising Scientist
Appendix 2.5: Alligator Rivers Region Advisory Committee
Appendix 2.6: Alligator Rivers Region Technical Committee
Appendix 2.7: Functions of the Environmental Research
Institute of the Supervising Scientist
Appendix 2.8: Five year plan of environmental performance
review topics for the Ranger mine
Appendix 2.9: Infringements of the Ranger uranium mine
environmental requirements
Appendix 2.10: Infringements of the Nabarlek uranium
mine environmental requirements
Appendix 3.1: Inquiries which reviewed the Office of
the Supervising Scientist
Appendix 4.1: Comment by Australian Radiation Laboratory
on Kohnlein/ Nussbaum paper Reduced Biological Effectiveness at Low-Rate,
LowDose Exposures (DREF): An Unwarranted Conjecture
RESEARCH PAPERS
AUSTRALIA'S URANIUM MINES, PAST AND PRESENT
Paul Kay, Science, Technology, Environment & Resource Group, Parliamentary
Research Service
THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING SCIENTIST
Derek Drinkwater, Committee Office, Department of the Senate
THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE SUPERVISING
SCIENTIST - OPERATIONS AND ISSUES
Dr R. Panter, Director of Science, Technology, Environment & Resource
Group, Parliamentary Research Service
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY IN URANIUM MINING &
MILLING
Dr J. Leigh, Worksafe Australia
IMPACT OF URANIUM MINING ON ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES
IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
Irene Wilson, Committee Office, Department of the Senate
NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS
David Anderson, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Group, Parliamentary
Research Service