Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up
Book by Alan Parkinson
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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]
Book cover | |
| Author | Alan Parkinson |
|---|---|
| Language | en |
| Subject | British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga |
| Publisher | ABC Books |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 233 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-7333-2108-5 |
| OCLC | 174040769 |
Overview
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]
