The service ship Amur had then come to assist the submarine as it had a nuclear waste processing plant on board.

Another problem is that President Carter shut down America's only nuclear waste processing plant in the late 1970s, which would have recycled most of the waste, immensely relieving the problem.

Vale notably opposed several of the Howard Government's policies and proposals, often on local issues, in particular the proposed construction of a second Sydney airport at Holsworthy and a nuclear waste processing plant at Lucas Heights, both of which would have been located in her electorate.

Along with Herbert Grönemeyer, Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, BAP, the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival in July 1986 to protest the construction of a nuclear waste processing plant in nearby Wackersdorf.

The Energy Department spent $50 million on a nuclear waste processing plant in Ohio that was supposed to cost only $16 million, but even before it could handle radioactive materials, the heart of the plant was destroyed in an accident because of poor planning, according to an independent report on widespread mismanagement at the department.