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Australia

In Australia, the Aboriginal population has been unfairly targeted with radioactive waste dumps and uranium mining. Stripped of their rights, Aborigines however continue to fight back to prevent waste dumping and expansion of uranium mining.

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Entries from June 1, 2011 - June 30, 2011

Saturday
Jun252011

Revisiting Chernobyl for lessons to apply at Fukushima

Over 25 years since it exploded and caught fire, the Australian television program Sixty Minutes on June 6, 2011 revisited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to learn the lessons about radioactivity's hazards for application in Japan, downwind and downstream of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe.