悉尼秘密埋放地核放射物将被转移至西区

villa

Residents living in fear … Michael Richardson and Anthony Roberts at the contaminated site.


据2008年1月29日《每日电讯报》特别报道（Special Report），新州政府计划将悉尼黄金地段Hunters Hill一处秘密核放射物质埋放地的土壤重新挖掘转移到悉尼西部城区，而腾出的这块空地将出售给房地产开发商，因这块建地位置极佳，面临美丽港湾，因此预计售价将超过数百万澳元。




这处核放射物秘密埋放地位于Hunters Hill区的7 & 9 Nelson Pde，可追溯至1915年，当时这里曾是澳洲第一家铀矿熔炼处理厂，1916年关闭。1980年代这块空地被新州卫生部门接管。新州环境部门的纪录显示，这片土地含有铀238，釷230，铅230，镭226等放射性物质。

上个星期，《每日电讯报》聘请专业公司对空地周围进行测试后发现，该核放射性伽马射线超出可接受水平的10倍以上，与其相邻的一个海滩也被探测到含有已达危险水平的砷，铅及致癌的碳氢化合物。

但是，这块空地附近的居民并没有获得足够的警示，五年前在该空地隔两个门牌号买地兴建了自住房的居民Kathie Frankland表示，当时她只被告知那里曾经是一家钟表制造厂。

一份1978年的政府文件显示，30年来新州历届政府一直对该地含有大量核放射性废料一事讳莫如深或刻意隐瞒。



Nuke disgrace .... Andrew Bellany and Adam Gamys (L-R) record radioactive levels just metres from family homes in Hunters Hill.


《每日电讯报》还爆料，新州卫生部打算挖走这块空地上埋放的近1000吨核放射物质土层，用卡车穿过悉尼的街道运送到西区重新埋放，预计悉尼西区的埋放地可能是几个大墓地的土层下面。（an estimated 1000 tonnes of radioactive waste buried under a few centimetres of soil.）





Fury at nuclear waste disgrace for Sydney



January 29, 2008 03:00am  Article from: The Daily Telegraph


THE NSW Government is planning to excavate a secret radioactive dump on premium harbourfront real estate and truck the dangerous material to Sydney's western suburbs.

More than 30 years after discovering it was emitting significant levels of radiation, NSW Health is attempting to dump its nuclear problem on the people of western Sydney so it can sell a multi-million dollar block of land.

Decaying away on the modest residential block at Nelson Pde, Hunters Hill, 5km west of the CBD, is an estimated 1000 tonnes of radioactive waste buried under a few centimetres of soil.

According to the Department of Environment's records, the land contains tailings of uranium 238, thorium 230, lead 210 and radium 226.

Both the Department of Environment and NSW Health maintained the site was completely safe.

But a company contracted by The Daily Telegraph just last week detected radioactive gamma rays of up to 10 times higher than acceptable exposure levels at the site - which residents are now only learning was once home to Australia's first uranium processing plant.

"We were told it was a watch factory," said Kathie Frankland, who built a house five years ago two doors from the site.

To add to the problem, perilous levels of arsenic, lead and cancer-causing hydrocarbons have been detected on adjoining foreshore land which the Department of Environment only recently classified as posing a "significant risk of harm".

"This site is effectively a nuclear waste dump," said Liberal MP Michael Richardson, who obtained documents under Freedom of Information revealing authorities have known about it for decades.

NSW Health, which took over the site in the 1980s when it was transferred to its radiation branch, now plans to clean it up and sell it for housing.

And it proposes to dig up the fill and truck it through Sydney streets to a western Sydney tip.

Local MP Anthony Roberts claimed that the company contracted to remove it, GHD, said it was going to be taken to an industrial tip near Castlereagh.

He was told by the company: "Don't worry, it's going way out west."

Government documents dating back to 1978 reveal a 30-year history of inaction and cover-up by successive governments of the waste dump containing 1000 tonnes of radioactive tailings stockpiled on the site since 1915 by the then Radium Hill Company.

A NSW Health Commission warning of October 28, 1978 to a neighbouring resident revealed that testing uncovered radioactive readings twice the acceptable level on their property as well.

"I have to inform you that the NSW Government today resolved to arrange for decontamination of your property ... of radioactive material as soon as an agreement can be reached with the Commonwealth Government on a suitable disposal site," wrote the commission's chairman Roderick McEwin on 17 January, 1978 to a Nelson Pde resident. The land was never decontaminated.

CETC, a company contracted to The Daily Telegraph, last week tested five locations at the site. The highest reading was 10 microsieverts per hour of radiation. Risk assessments were triggered when 0.5 microsieverts per hour were detected.

Consulting scientist with CETEC Adam Garnys recommended in a report that a risk assessment be conducted.

[ 本帖最后由 villa 于 2008-1-30 01:52 编辑 ]

villa

Before buying his family home in Hunters Hill 13 years ago, Mario Reciti was assured by the local council that a vacant block nearby was not contaminated.



Childrens' radioactive play


Article from: The Daily Telegraph  

January 29, 2008 12:00am

BEFORE buying his family home in Nelson Pde at Hunters Hill 13 years ago, Mario Reciti was assured by the local council that the vacant block down the road was not contaminated.

But for 30 years the State Government has known the site - once home to the nation's first uranium processing plant - contained dangerous levels of radiation.

The area is also contaminated with high levels of hydrocarbons, lead and arsenic, residents were told last month.

The street is home to several young families, with children yesterday playing just metres from the overgrown site.

"It was a concern of ours before we bought, but council staff assured us that no contamination existed on that site," Mr Reciti said.

While NSW Health plans to clean up and sell the block for housing, Mr Reciti said the Government had not kept him fully informed of developments.

"Maybe they don't believe there's a need for us to be kept informed," he said.

"Maybe they don't want to scaremonger."

He welcomed plans to clean up the site, saying: "Obviously there's been a question mark over the years."

Another Nelson Pde resident, father-of-four Iain Rothwell, only learned of the site's history after he and his family moved in about seven months ago. He had heard a "legend" that radioactive waste was left behind after a clock factory closed.

"According to the Department of Health, (the contamination) related to the landfill that was put into the site subsequent to the factory closing," he said.

"Most of the soil, the vast majority, is contaminated landfill and that's the stuff that is carcinogenic."

Mr Rothwell, who lives opposite the site, was concerned contaminated particles could blow towards his house during the clean-up.

"It's going to be almost semi-industrial, with a conveyor belt and trucks backing up and ploughing tonnes and tonnes of soil out of the ground," he said.

His concerns were echoed by neighbour George Chrysanthou, who said: "Everybody knows it's got contamination, uranium, so they don't let the kids in there."

[ 本帖最后由 villa 于 2008-1-30 01:30 编辑 ]

villa

《每日电讯报》1月29日发表的社论：


Editorial


Waste plan a mess


IN lovely Hunters Hill, one of Sydney's desirable waterfront residential suburbs, there's a foul thing buried in a suburban grave.

But now, like something rotten, it's rising to the surface. It's dirty and dangerous - deadly even - and it can be ignored no longer.

Hidden under the topsoil of a block in leafy Nelson Pde, an estimated 1000 tonnes of radioactive waste is slowly decaying, giving off its dangerous emissions in the process.

Radioactive gamma rays, more than 20 times the recommended safe levels, were detected at the site just last week.

The State Government, we are told, has a plan - dig up the waste and ship it out to a western Sydney tip so the multi-million dollar property can be sold for a handsome profit.

So that's all to the good - at least for the people of Hunters Hill. But what about the people into whose back yards this dangerous stuff is now about to be deposited?

In truth, the Government has not said how the material is to be collected, how - or even if - it is to be transported, where it is to be taken.

But that's really the point. Surely we are all entitled to know what plans have been drawn up to rehabilitate this site.

And we're entitled to know now. The Government has known about this dump for more than 30 years. In this instance, surely the community's safety should take precedence over profit.

[ 本帖最后由 villa 于 2008-1-30 01:53 编辑 ]

bulaohu

Shoot'em all!

Devil_Star

看来买地建房有得请多一类CONSULTANT～

买房子啊

哈哈哈哈，在哪里买了地盖房子的那些人，财富立即迅速缩水啊，这种豪宅， 如果40万， 你们敢不敢买

CPU

这故事看起来像电影情节阿。澳洲内陆那么大的无人区，沙漠阿戈壁阿，扔多少放射物都可以，为什么一定要扔在城市？

villa

原帖由 CPU 于 2008-1-30 08:12 发表
这故事看起来像电影情节阿。澳洲内陆那么大的无人区，沙漠阿戈壁阿，扔多少放射物都可以，为什么一定要扔在城市？

1915年的时候，澳洲的社会人文还远远没有发展到现在的水平，澳洲内陆根本人迹罕至，交通工具也不发达。。。悉尼港湾边的这些核放射物是在那个时候的澳洲首家铀矿处理厂遗留下来的。。。

这处核放射物秘密埋放地位于Hunters Hill区的7 & 9 Nelson Pde，可追溯至1915年，当时这里曾是澳洲第一家铀矿熔炼处理厂，1916年关闭。1980年代这块空地被新州卫生部门接管。

CPU

原帖由 villa 于 2008-1-30 08:27 发表


1915年的时候，澳洲的社会人文还远远没有发展到现在的水平，澳洲内陆根本人迹罕至，交通工具也不发达。。。悉尼港湾边的这些核放射物是在那个时候的澳洲首家铀矿处理厂遗留下来的。。。

谢谢villa，我是想现在既然要铲走，那就铲远点，还扔悉尼西区，不知道什么原因阿

WTFAUS

不知墨尔本有无这类恐怖地带阿 :o

月亮

同ls问

datou2z

那西区的房价岂不是要受影响咯～～

marrow

为什么现在不往内陆无人区扔呀，扔到无人岛也行呀。

ilovecoffee

原帖由 marrow 于 2008-1-30 10:10 发表
为什么现在不往内陆无人区扔呀，扔到无人岛也行呀。

同问。

tracy@syd

各处都有省政府市政府，也不是想把垃圾扔哪儿就是哪儿吧

黑山老妖

澳洲那么大，哪里不好放。为啥一定要放在悉尼附近呢？

applenet

哇， 国内新浪新闻都登了！
http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2008-01-30/005513348369s.shtml

悉尼居民区掩埋千吨核废料 辐射严重超标http://www.sina.com.cn 2008年01月30日00:55 中国新闻网
　　中新社悉尼一月二十九日电 此间报纸今天披露，在悉尼市中心以西五公里的猎人山地区的一个居民区中，在离地表很近的地方，掩埋着约一千吨放射性核废料。近日一间专业公司检测发现，当地的伽玛射线比安全标准高出十几倍。

　　《每日电讯报》报道说，新州卫生及环境厅曾长期对外宣称此地的安全性。实际上，这里曾经是澳大利亚最早的核处理工厂，埋有铀二三八、钍二三〇、铅二一〇及镭二二六等元素的残渣。另外，附近还检测出达到危险级含量的砷、铅及烃。一位五年前在此盖房的居民说，她被告知此地曾经是手表工厂，对掩埋核废料一事毫不知情。只是最近由于当局要对此地进行开发，这些核废料才被计划挖出，并将用卡车运到悉尼西部的一个工业垃圾倾倒点。而那里的核辐射量将会给附近居民带来的影响目前已引起人们的关注。

　　据悉，有专家曾于一九七八年建议将核废料清除，但时至今日，当地居民还在经受核辐射的危险。检测公司说，当地最高放射计数已远远超出启动风险评估的标准。一些科学家建议，应立即对此地进行风险评估。(完)

cattor

我服了。今年事情怎么这么多啊。

WTFAUS

原帖由 applenet 于 2008-1-30 10:53 发表
哇， 国内新浪新闻都登了！
http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2008-01-30/005513348369s.shtml

悉尼居民区掩埋千吨核废料 辐射严重超标http://www.sina.com.cn 2008年01月30日00:55 中国新闻网
　　中新社悉尼一月二 ...

国内新闻从来不放过任何国外的丑闻

ddec2007

sh*t

degra

原帖由 黑山老妖 于 2008-1-30 10:52 发表
澳洲那么大，哪里不好放。为啥一定要放在悉尼附近呢？

同不明白为什么要放在Sydney metro内.

大饼

原帖由 WTFAUS 于 2008-1-30 11:01 发表

国内新闻从来不放过任何国外的丑闻

米国及其走狗们也从来不放过中国的任何反面新闻。而且经常添油加醋，恨不得火上浇油。

大饼

原帖由 gandu 于 2008-1-30 17:07 发表


同不明白为什么要放在Sydney metro内.

同问。
OZ那么多铁矿煤矿。随便找一个沙漠里采完了矿的洞埋了不就完了嘛。非要丢在悉尼黄金地段。还要转移到西悉尼。真是脑子进水了。

花生

估计想借机打压房价

OneLeaf

mad

绿茶28

原帖由 花生 于 2008-1-30 17:26 发表
估计想借机打压房价

妙想

applenet

不会放到CASTLE HILL去吧!

他们要是敢往俺们那旮沓放,俺跟X急,非抗议不可,我估计广大西区的人民也不是吃素滴!

OZWorker

用普通卡车运送？
发生车祸这么办？

qiaoqiao

西区坟墓多的地方就一个lidcombe

西关少爷

原帖由 applenet 于 2008-1-30 10:53 发表
哇， 国内新浪新闻都登了！
http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2008-01-30/005513348369s.shtml

中新社悉尼一月二十九日电 此间报纸今天披露，在悉尼市中心以西五公里的猎人山地区的一个居民区中

5KM???