On the 11th of June 2026, A/Prof Tilman Ruff AO made a submission to the AUKUS Public Inquiry on behalf of: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Australia.

The long-lasting proliferation dangers of highly-enriched uranium reactor fuel and waste addressed in the testimony to the Inquiry were covered by Ben Doherty writing for the Guardian Australia on 25 July 2026: ‘A global threat for millennia: experts warn Australia’s nuclear submarine legacy will be weapons-usable uranium cache’.

You can read the transcript of ICAN’s submission here, or below.