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Maralinga : Australia's nuclear waste cover-up / Alan Parkinson.
- Title
- Maralinga : Australia's nuclear waste cover-up / Alan Parkinson.
- Author
- Parkinson, Alan
- Publication
- Sydney, N.S.W. : ABC Books, 2007.
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- Description
- xx, 233 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In April 2000, a $108 million clean-up of the former British A-bomb test site in South Australia was declared a success and the Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal people were told it was safe to move back onto their lands. But leaked documents and key insiders say otherwise.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine derived contents note: 1 Contaminat1ng the outback 1 -- 2 Early days 10 -- 3 Makinga stat 19 -- 4 Questions reviews and audits 27 -- 5 Getting down to work -- S Starting the cleanup 42 -- 7 What's the target? 51 -- 8 Scraping th earth 56 -- 9 Health physics 66 -- 10 Troublesome pits 75 -- 11 pits, puts and more pits 81 -- 12 A pictoria record 87 -- 13 gCheking the glass 94 -- 14 The cing of the guard 9s -- 15 The takeover 105 -- 16 The dismissal 114 -- 17 Ar attem atjce 119 -- 18 Advising again 127 -- 1 Making glass 131 -- 20 Changng requirements 138 -- 21 The big bang 146 -- 22 No more glass 151 -- 23 Cutting the cost 156 -- 24 Digg wera w rk 163 -- 25 Speaking out 172 -- 26 Publications 181 -- 27 Politicians 188 -- 28 The MARTAC Repo 193 -- 29 P 205 -- 3 Disposing of nuclrwa ste 214 -- 31 of the future? 220 -- Appendix 227.
- ISBN
- 9780733321085 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007532679
- OCLC
- 174040769
- SCSB-12891214
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library