SECRET Waste Dump Clauses of AUKUS SSN Agreement

In response to some of French Anonymous' February 2, 2024 comments: 

If France sold Barracuda SSNs to Australia and, because they use LEU, France agreed to accept Australian Barracudas (including spent LEU) being returned to France this may be attractive to Australia. 

This is because clauses of the AUKUS agreement require: 

1. (reported but actual wording in unrevealed AUKUS agreement SECRET) a Low to Intermediate level nuclear waste Dump being built in Australia for waste arising from US and Australian Virginia and SSN-AUKUS maintenance. The dump will be at Fleet Base West ie. Perth Naval Base. 

2. (actual wording SECRET) Australia must dispose of high level radioactive materials and Australian Virginia and Australian SSN-AUKUS subs once these SSNs are decommissioned. 

3. (TOP SECRET) - The UK will bear much of the SSN-AUKUS burden for Australia if Australia accepts all/some part of the irradiated reactor compartments and HEU waste of the UK's decommissioned SSNs and SSBNs, in a future Australian High Level Nuclear Waste Dump.

[In a subsequent Guardian (Australian Edition) Article of April 2, 2024 the same concerns were raised - see ‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told | Aukus | The Guardian "New laws to establish a safety framework for Australia’s planned nuclear-powered submarines could also allow the US and UK to send waste here, while both of those countries are struggling to deal with their own waste, as no long-term, high-level waste facilities have been created."]

See AUKUS Briefing Book https://securityanddefenceplus.plusalliance.org/aukus-briefing-book/ and AUKUS Factsheet contains a complex and ambiguous network of overlapping responsibilities. See below official AUKUS flow chart. Nuclear Waste Dumps for Australia may be under "Nuclear  Stewardship" and/or "Non-Proliferation" and/or, more explicitly, under one of the three "Classified or Not Disclosed" activities under "Submarines" below. 

Off Topic - One of the "Classified or Not Disclosed" activities would be a Security Liaison Group mainly led by the FBI, MI5 and ASIO (here and here) and . They would be making high level decisions on Counter Espionage, Foreign Interference, Cybersecurity and high level Vetting as those topics relate to AUKUS. 

An AUKUS Security Liaison Group meeting was held around the time of an "FBI-hosted summit of [security service] heads from the agencies of Five Eyes alliance countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US" held in the US, in late 2023 -  see Beijing seeks to ‘disrupt’ AUKUS, MI5 head says of October 23, 2023 at https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/10/23/2003808089  .