Lynas plans to build a permanent disposal facility in Pahang but what is its function?
More than seven years after they started operations in Malaysia, rare-earths producer Lynas Corporation might finally be within grasp of a state-approved solution for its radioactive waste. In a Jan 30 statement, Lynas says it has identified a site with consent from the Pahang state government to build what it calls a"permanent disposal facility" .
In this article, we scrutinise the PDF. We report from published documents, interviews with researchers, and email replies from Ismail Bahari , Lynas Malaysia’s general manager of radiation safety, regulations and compliance. The AELB, a key player in this context, has not agreed to our multiple requests for interviews since August 2019.It is a facility to contain disposed waste for the long term.
To isolate the waste from the accessible biosphere and to reduce substantially the likelihood of, and all possible consequences of, inadvertent human intrusion into the waste; In Malaysia, the Atomic Energy Licensing Act 1984 provides control over matters of atomic energy and is enforced by the local regulator, the AELB. Any operator that wishes to dispose of radioactive waste must apply for the appropriate license from the AELB and adhere to rules stated in Part 3 Section 5 of the Atomic Energy Licensing Regulations 2011.
But these studies failed to convince an executive committee appointed in 2018 by the new Pakatan Harapan government to evaluate Lynas operations. The committee instead recommended Lynas immediately build a disposal facility for WLP residue.sought the opinion of Suhairul Hashim, a member of the Nuclear and Radiation Physics Research Group at Technology University Malaysia. Suhairul is independent of Lynas and was appointed by the AELB in 2014 to conduct a pre-license audit of Lynas.
The Lynas statement says that the chosen site has received the consent of the Pahang state government. “Near-surface” generally refers to any depth from the surface to 30 meters deep, and designs could range from “simple to more complex engineered means”.This is likely one of the public’s top concerns. But without details of the PDF construction plan,We don’t know yet, but Lynas in its Jan 30 statement announced that it has contracted Gading Senggara Sdn Bhd to manage the PDF project from design to construction and subsequent maintenance, according to its Jan 30 statement.
According to information recorded with the Companies Commission of Malaysia, Gading Senggara Sdn Bhd was incorporated in 2012. Its nature of business is listed as"construction/contractor" and"developers".
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