Maralinga radioactive fallout buried in shallow trenches
Dr. Dick van Steenis MBBS Wales UK Tel -44 1686 670688 I refer to the dust storm from central Australia that covered much of NSW & Queensland
There will have been large deposits
of radioactive plutonium, caesium, iodine& strontium on the sand and in
shallow trenches from the pathetic handling some 9 years ago of fallout from
the Maralinga tests in northern South Australia/ NT.
Also the areas around
Alice Springs had 50000 times rise in radioactivity fron fallout from the
Montebello tests. These all have long half lives. I guess much of that nasty
dangerous stuff ended up in your dust cloud in the past few days. Has
anyone tested the dust for radioactivity? I contributed to a story in the
Australian BULLETIN of 1 September 2004 and was in medical school in
Adelaide during the Maralinga tests.
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of the week – Disrupting War & Militarism in Oceania. Active solidarity. Radical practice.
Antinuclear 
Re Maralinga, I refer readers to Alan Parkinson’s speech from the MAPW 2000 conference http://www.mapw.org.au/conferences/2000/papers/parkinson.html or google him on the web. The ABC did an episode on Background Briefing on his work. The burial of nuclear waste including plutonium 2-3 metres under the ground is about as bad practice as is possible – yet that is what the Howard government endorsed and allowed.
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