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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission</name>
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          <heading>Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2016-11-01">
            <name>Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition)</by> (28 July 2016).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <question date="2016-11-01">
            <name>Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission</name>
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            <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier):</by>  The government is committed to provide its response to the royal commission's report by the end of 2016.</inserted>
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          <inserted>An extensive community consultation is underway to support a conversation about the royal commission's report and the key themes raised by the citizens' jury including safety, economics, trust and community consent. </inserted>
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        <text id="201611015088f02e3c3f4b1da0001166">
          <inserted>The government recognises the importance of a staged approach and careful planning should any future steps be taken to pursue the opportunity to establish facilities to store and dispose of waste from overseas countries that have nuclear power (high and intermediate-level waste). </inserted>
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        <text id="201611015088f02e3c3f4b1da0001167">
          <inserted>The royal commission provides a number of case studies about siting significant facilities. For example, site investigations and processes that resulted in the section and development of the Onkalo Deep Geological Repository in Finland have taken place since the early 1980s and included sustained community engagement.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The royal commission also found that deadlines set primarily for commercial and technical reasons, without considering the community's need to consider and digest information, can undermine community confidence.</inserted>
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