Australia debates nuclear waste

3 March 2010

Aboriginal groups are to debate controversial plans to build Australia's first nuclear waste dump on tribal land in the Northern Territory. The federal government has identified a remote cattle station north of Tennant Creek as a likely site.

_______________________ (5) nuclear waste that Australia sent to Europe for reprocessing _________________ (3) but officials in Canberra have yet to decide where to put it. Muckaty Station, an isolated property 120 kilometres from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, _________________ (5) possible site. Local Aborigines have offered to sell the land for $11 million, _________________ (4) infuriated other indigenous groups in the area, _________________ (4) health and environmental implications. These conflicting views _________________ (3) collide at a public meeting in Tennant Creek, an old gold-mining town south of Darwin. Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says _____________________ (5) radioactive waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive. Australia's federal government said that Muckaty Station _________________ (4) thorough scientific and environmental assessments . Ministers have indicated that the nuclear dump ____________________ (5) landowners opposed it. Critics believe that recent earthquakes in that part of the Northern Territory _______________________ (5) safety of the sites. The Australian Greens have said that radioactive waste _______________________ (5) country's only nuclear facility _________________ (4) Sydney. Phil Mercer, BBC News, Sydney reprocessing the treatment of waste so that is safer and can be used again an isolated property an area of land that is owned which is a long way from other towns and population centres infuriated made very angry indigenous groups the native population of a particular area to collide to crash into each other divisive causing strong disagreement within a community thorough scientific and environmental assessments very detailed studies to find out if the area is suitable and what the possible damage might be have indicated have suggested on the outskirts of in an area that is part of a city or town but is furthest from the centre