Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987853/radioactive_waste_and_the_nuclear_war_on_australias_aboriginal_people.html
Date Written:  2016-07-01
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19646

Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back.

Subject Headings

• Australia
• Radioactive Wastes