In South Australia, don’t mention Maralinga, Rum Jungle, Radium Hill, Chernobyl, Fukushima …..
Dennis Matthews. 7 March 15 Isn’t it fascinating how the nuclear industry and it’s fellow travellers are so sensitive about the industry’s past and present performance and want us to concentrate on some idyllic, non-existent, waste-free, nuclear weapons-free, mirage.
Whatever you do don’t mention Maralinga, or Rum Jungle, or Radium Hill, or radioactive emissions and leaks at Roxby Downs, or underground acidic leach mining of uranium in SA, or Three Mile Island, or the on-going tragedies at Chernobyl and Fukushima, or a host of lesser publicised “incidents”, let’s all forget that nasty, distasteful stuff (ugh!), let’s be positive, let’s waffle on about what might be possible in some far-distant future.
Talk about fairies at the bottom of the garden!
As a history professor is reputed to have told his students “those of you who fail to learn from history will, at the very least, have to repeat this course.”
On this basis alone the nuclear lobby would score a big fat F.
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