Where will Japan’s radioactive waste go?It’s been five months since the devastating Japan earthquake and resulting tsunami and most of the clean-up is complete. But is chucking dirt contaminated with nuclear waste just a few feet underground a viable long-term solution?
Nuclear waste
The people who call Chernobyl home
No-one is allowed to live in the 30-km exclusion zone around Chernobyl; but in the 23 years since the disaster, some survivors have returned anyway, living illegally in their own homes in this bizarre, post-apocalyptic community.
NT poll II: this is no time to mention nuclear waste
A new uranium mine is proposed, nuclear waste will come back to haunt us, but don’t expect either to rate a mention in the leadup to the NT election, writes Jenny Walker.
Rudd and Ferguson to dump a core election promise?
Will Kevin Rudd rein in Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, who is stalling on the implemention of election committments regarding nuclear waste management, writes Natalie Wasley.
