Aborigines volunteer land for nuclear waste
The latest twist in the saga of what Australia's federal government might do with its nuclear waste sees aboriginal people offering a piece of land in the Northern Territories for the job. (EDIE)
Although Australia is rich with uranium deposits which fuel reactors the world over, Australia is not itself a major nuclear player, having a handful of small reactors for research purposes but no large power stations.
However, the question of how to dispose of the waste from these research facilities along with that from industrial and medical sources has been a major headache for central government. But now the aboriginal Ngapa clan has proposed a 1.5 sq km site, part of its 200sq km holding near Muckaty Station, roughly half way between Alice Springs and Darwin in the Northern Territories.
If it gets the go ahead, the site could be used to store both low-level nuclear waste such as contaminated soil and lab equipment and intermediate level waste including that from hospital radiotherapy departments and Australia's reactors.
Although Australia is rich with uranium deposits which fuel reactors the world over, Australia is not itself a major nuclear player, having a handful of small reactors for research purposes but no large power stations.
However, the question of how to dispose of the waste from these research facilities along with that from industrial and medical sources has been a major headache for central government. But now the aboriginal Ngapa clan has proposed a 1.5 sq km site, part of its 200sq km holding near Muckaty Station, roughly half way between Alice Springs and Darwin in the Northern Territories.
If it gets the go ahead, the site could be used to store both low-level nuclear waste such as contaminated soil and lab equipment and intermediate level waste including that from hospital radiotherapy departments and Australia's reactors.
Labels: aborigine, Ngapa, Northern Territory, nuclear, nuclear waste, uranium
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