Radioactive Roadworks

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edit 30/4/12 So, the ground was tested and it turned out not be radioactive waste, but a naturally occurring poisonous gas http://www.smh.com.au/environment/soil-not-radiation-made-workers-ill-20120419-1xa31.html ANSTO has claimed that the barrels containing the radioactive waste were not compromised by the crash, and were safely shipped out of Brisbane. However, a doctor who treated two police officers at the scene claims otherwise, and is convinced that they suffered from radiation poisoning. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/buried-fury-at-betrayal-bubbles-to-the-surface/story-e6freuzi-1226333766448 Whatever the story, the risk of accident for trucks carrying radioactive waste on long hauls is not something we should take lightly. A decade ago, the Howard Government calculated a 23% chance that a truck transporting waste between Lucas Heights and the formerly proposed waste dump site at Woomera, SA, would crash each year. The haul to Muckaty will be much longer, and on roads that are notoriously dangerous. ******************* Early this morning, road workers on the mid-north coast of NSW were sent to hospital vomiting, after uncovering radioactive material, buried at an unmarked site on the side...
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Radioactive Roadworks

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edit 30/4/12 So, the ground was tested and it turned out not be radioactive waste, but a naturally occurring poisonous gas http://www.smh.com.au/environment/soil-not-radiation-made-workers-ill-20120419-1xa31.html ANSTO has claimed that the barrels containing the radioactive waste were not compromised by the crash, and were safely shipped out of Brisbane. However, a doctor who treated two police officers at the scene claims otherwise, and is convinced that they suffered from radiation poisoning. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/buried-fury-at-betrayal-bubbles-to-the-surface/story-e6freuzi-1226333766448 Whatever the story, the risk of accident for trucks carrying radioactive waste on long hauls is not something we should take lightly. A decade ago, the Howard Government calculated a 23% chance that a truck transporting waste between Lucas Heights and the formerly proposed waste dump site at Woomera, SA, would crash each year. The haul to Muckaty will be much longer, and on roads that are notoriously dangerous. ******************* Early this morning, road workers on the mid-north coast of NSW were sent to hospital vomiting, after uncovering radioactive material, buried at an unmarked site on the side...
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“Fuck Lynas - Good day to die” by Namewee The campaign against Lynas is not known to many Australians, but is a struggle being fought by many thousands of Malaysians. The fact that Namewee’s track has over a million likes on Youtube attests to this! Or it might just be that he’s really popular in Malaysia. A brief summary of the issue - in 2011 Lynas opened the Mt Weld rare earth mine in Western Australia, rare earths being a group of seventeen elements used in technologies such as wind turbines and electric cars. As part of this project Lynas have almost finished building a processing plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, where 33,000 tonnes of Australian rare earth concentrates will be processed. Kuantan’s rare earths refinery, which will be the biggest in the world, will leave behind 28,000 tonnes of waste per year, a by-product of which is the radioactive element Thorium. So! It’s the usual story of powerful corporations shipping their political/social/environmental...
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by incubateNo Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLn3BLWw9B8 “Fuck Lynas - Good day to die” by Namewee The campaign against Lynas is not known to many Australians, but is a struggle being fought by many thousands of Malaysians. The fact that Namewee’s track has over a million likes on Youtube attests to this! Or it might just be that he’s really popular in Malaysia. A brief summary of the issue - in 2011 Lynas opened the Mt Weld rare earth mine in Western Australia, rare earths being a group of seventeen elements used in technologies such as wind turbines and electric cars. As part of this project Lynas have almost finished building a processing plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, where 33,000 tonnes of Australian rare earth concentrates will be processed. Kuantan’s rare earths refinery, which will be the biggest in the world, will leave behind 28,000 tonnes of waste per year, a by-product of which is the radioactive element Thorium. So! It’s the usual story of powerful corporations shipping their political/social/environmental...
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