Maralinga Mystery by Alan Parkinson

Maralinga Mystery by Alan Parkinson

Maralinga. A uniquely Australian tourist destination. A remote site in the State of South Australia where thousands of Service personnel, mainly British and Australian, witnessed the deliberate contamination of pristine Australian bush with plutonium.
Maralinga, where Britain exploded 22 atomic bombs in the 1950s and 60s. 15 of those bombs were exploded in the infamous Vixen B trials in a manner which spread plutonium over hundreds of square kilometres.
This is the inside story of the clean-up of a tiny fraction of the contaminated area. It is the story of how workmen in sealed vehicles scraped up thousands of tonnes of contaminated soil and transferred it to a huge burial trench. It is also the story of how thousands of tonnes of debris, contaminated with plutonium, were to have been treated in a manner considered by both British and Australian specialists to be ideal, was turned into a botched job by a group with no nuclear expertise in order to save money.
It is the story of how the outcome was declared world's best practice by the newly formed Australian nuclear regulator, and was praised by the Australian government, but condemned by the federal opposition party.
Maralinga has been returned to the Aboriginal owners, and tourists can now take their four-wheel drive vehicles to the site. They can walk on the cleaned area and learn something of the history. This book tells the rest.

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ISBN 13	9781398467217
ISBN 10	1398467219
Titel	Maralinga Mystery
Autor	Alan Parkinson
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Austin Macauley Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-09-15
Seitenanzahl	176
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