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Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up

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Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up
Book cover
AuthorAlan Parkinson
Languageen
SubjectBritish atomic bomb test site at Maralinga
PublisherABC Books
Publication date
2007
Pages233 pp.
ISBN978-0-7333-2108-5
OCLC174040769

Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up is a book by Alan Parkinson about the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South Australia, published in 2007.[1]

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Parkinson, a nuclear engineer and former Government Representative to oversee the Maralinga Rehabilitation Project,[2] explains that the clean-up of Maralinga in the late 1990s was compromised by cost-cutting and simply involved dumping hazardous radioactive debris in shallow holes in the ground. Parkinson states that "What was done at Maralinga was a cheap and nasty solution that wouldn't be adopted on white-fellas land."[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Maralinga – Australia's nuclear waste cover-up". abc.net.au. Australia: ABC. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. ^ Parkinson, Alan (30 September 2010). "Maralinga and the Disposal of Nuclear Waste" (PDF). Mittagong: Institution of Engineers Australia. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  3. ^ Green, Jim (14 July 2014). "The nuclear war against Australia's Aboriginal people". The Ecologist. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Wayne (October 2007). "Maralinga: Australia's nuclear waste cover-up by Alan Parkinson". Australian Book Review. No. 295.
  5. ^ Karamoskos, Peter (January–March 2008). "Reviewed Work: Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up by Alan Parkinson". Medicine, Conflict and Survival. 24 (1). Taylor & Francis: 73–75. doi:10.1080/13623690701775270. JSTOR 27017404. S2CID 220378025.
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