Ranger Uranium Mine is out of control
Northern Territory News, Grusha Leeman, Tiwi 12 April 11, LAST night I went along to a public meeting to hear from Yvonne Margarula, senior traditional owner of the land on which the Ranger uranium mine operates. She is very sad. The broken promises keep coming but the problems stay.
I don’t remember Ranger Mine ever being so out of control. The heavy wet season and inadequate investment in water management has giving us a brimming tailings dam and a mining pit full of toxic water.
Who would plan to spray strong acid on rock piles in Kakadu (a method never tested in the tropics)? I suppose it will only be a matter of time before there is yet another acid spill on the pot-holed Arnhem Highway.
And who would extend by stealth deep under the old billabong and creek — as if it is exploring, but knowing it cannot mill the ore within the leased time?
Rio Tinto’s ERA, of course.
Yvonne has had enough, and so have I.
It’s time to start rehabilitation works.
Kakadu is a stupid place for a nuclearwastedump — let’s not make it any worse.
Fukushima crisis rated equal to Chernobyl
Japan’s reactor crisis hits maximum level, equal to Chernobyl * Rick Wallace, The Australian * April 12, 2011 JAPAN will upgrade the rating of the Fukushima nuclear crisis to the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.
News of the re-rating of the nuclear crisis came as Japan’s main island, Honshu, was battered by another series of strong aftershocks today.
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano confirmed this morning that the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant would be upgraded from a level 5 to a level 7, which is the maximum, on the international scale…..Japan’s reactor crisis hits maximum level, equal to Chernobyl | The Australian
Dr Helen Caldicott explains radiation emitters – “internal” and “external”
As we have seen, he and other nuclear industry apologists sow confusion about radiation risks, and, in my view, in much the same way that the tobacco industry did in previous decades about the risks of smoking. Despite their claims, it is they, not the “anti-nuclear movement” who are “misleading the world about the impacts of radiation on human health.”
How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy Helen Caldicott * guardian.co.uk, 11 April 2011
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