AFP-JIJI
Nov 13, 2015
SYDNEY – Australia on Friday announced six sites, including some in Outback areas, on a short list for the nation’s first nuclear waste dump, risking fresh controversy after an earlier plan was scuttled by opposition from Aboriginal landowners.
The government said it had received 28 applications from owners willing to house low to intermediate waste — mostly by-products of nuclear medicine — and had whittled that down to six, which will be subject to (…)