Australia's draft nuclear submarine safety bill raises concerns over waste disposal, environmental laws, and self-regulation.

The draft nuclear submarine safety bill faces major flaws, requiring more scrutiny. Key issues include ensuring Australia isn't responsible for disposing of UK/US AUKUS submarines' high-level nuclear waste, bypassing environmental laws to build waste facilities, and allowing conflicted self-regulation by the Defence Department. Disposing of high-level nuclear waste is a global, unsolved challenge, and nuclear submarine waste is more hazardous than any currently produced in Australia.