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Radioactive waste dumped in Kakadu National Park

Toxic waste dump in Kakadu,  Northern Territory News , NIGEL ADLAM, March 13th, 2010
THE equivalent of six Olympic-size swimming pools of radioactive soil and mining equipment has been buried in Kakadu National Park.

Parks Australia said it was not nuclear waste and the level of radioactivity was low.

The soil and equipment had been stored in shipping containers.

It has now been put in containers with a structural life of 1000 years and buried four metres down.

Toxic waste dump in Kakadu | Northern Territory News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au

March 13, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Northern Territory, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium