Hey Max, stales...look what I found...And you say Australia is earthquake prone?

(2) >>>>> CLIPS FROM AUSTRALIAN WEB SITE: >>>>>

Australia wants a repository, too:

From:
http://www.uic.com.au/nip55.htm

Low-level Waste Repository for Australia, Nuclear Issues Briefing Paper # 55, March 2000

Where it comes from:
"While Australia has no nuclear power producing electricity, it does have well-developed usage of radioisotopes in medicine and industry. Many of these isotopes are produced in the research reactor at Lucas Heights, near Sydney."

"When the final precise site in the Woomera area of South Australia is decided, the disposal area of the repository will be about 100 metres square, with long trenches up to 20 metres deep. It will be set in a 2.25 square kilometre buffer zone. If the category S wastes are co-located, their secure building with concrete vaults would comfortably fit in the same area."

Uranium Information Centre Ltd
A.C.N. 005 503 828
GPO Box 1649N, Melbourne 3001, Australia
phone (03) 9629 7744
fax (03) 9629 7207
E-mail : uic@mpx.com.au

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More information about Australia's search for a repository for its nuclear waste:
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/aug2000/2000L-08-18-10.html


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