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NASA’s Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes in Australia

VIDEO Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes on launch : Dynamics of Cats NASA loses a balloon in the outback April 29, 2010 The Nuclear Compton Telescope (PI Boggs at UCB’s SSL), a soft γ-ray telescope designed for balloon launch, observations in the stratosphere, and recovery, crashed because of a wind gust during an attempted launch in Australia earlier toda Nuclear Compton Telescope crashes on launch : Dynamics of Cats

April 30, 2010 Posted by | general | | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste dump rejected by Australian Aborigines

Australian aborigines reject nuclear waste plant, fullstory, Canberra, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Aborigines from northern Australia rejected government plans to build a plant for nuclear waste storage in their territories.Diane Stokes, an indigenous woman from the Warumungu and Warlmanpa tribes in the Northern Territory Muckaty Station, about 125 miles north of Tennat Creek town, opposed to the discharging of radioactive waste on their land.The government now seeks to build a permanent facility to house the nuclear waste that Australia used in hospitals, industries, agriculture and research.In 2007, the Labour Party promised a new study to select the site based on inclusion and consent of the community through a process of solid and transparent principles.Activist Dave Sweeney from the Australian Conservation Foundation, declared there is a lot at stake with radioactive waste that lasts thousands of years and can cause cancer and genetic changes

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