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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Australia’s nuclear waste is growing as battle over dump site heats up

Yellow radioactive waste barrels
The Australian Radioactive Waste Agency says more intermediate-level nuclear waste is accumulating than previously thought. Photograph: Ufuk Zivana/Alamy

Australia is accumulating more intermediate-level nuclear waste than previously thought, a new inventory has found, as the battle over a nuclear waste dump heats up.

After 40 years of different governments talking about a national nuclear waste facility, the Morrison government chose a site near the town of Kimba in South Australia. But the local Barngarla people are united against the plan, and have vowed to keep fighting to stop it happening.

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