Antinuclear

Lax security at BHP’s Yeelirrie uranium tailings dump

Children accessing old uranium site ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Mar 3, 2010 BHP Billiton says it will step up security at an old uranium testing site in Kalgoorlie after concerns children are accessing the area.Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of O’Connor, Ian Bishop, says damage to a security gate has allowed children to enter the site at Hannan’s north on dirt bikes. More than 5,000 tonnes of tailings from the Yeelirrie uranium deposit, near Wiluna, were buried in the area after BHP stopped testing ore-processing there in the 1980s.

March 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, uranium, Western Australia | antinuclear, Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium