Antinuclear

Wake up Australia, and New Zealand, to the radioactive dust danger!

Regarding BHP Billiton’s planned expansion of Olympic Dam uranium mine, South Australia’s minister for resources, Mr Holloway says “radioactive dust obviously could be a problem but the issue is able to be resolved”

You gotta laugh. The dust “could” be a problem? Dust already is a problem . The planned open cut mine will be – I’ve forgotten how many kilometres wide, and is it 1 or 3 kilometres deep, – with an equally vast amount of tailings, a mountain of radioactive dust ready for blowing in the wind.

And this issue is “able to be resolved”?  Just how?.  Well, it might be resolved in the way that the radioactive rain to Australia’s East coast, from the French Pacific nuclear testing in the 1970’s was resolved. Professor Ernest Titterton came up with the bright idea – just stop testing the rain for radioactivity. That could be the answer.

September 25, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, environment, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, BHP Billiton, climate change, climate change - global warming, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium