This place is in the remote western areas of South Australia and was.
What is Maralinga?
100
This is the year that an attempt at cleanup started.
What is 1963?
100
The nuclear testing site was home to these indigineous people.
What is the Maralinga Tjarutja?
100
This is how they tried to fix it the first time.
What is an unsuccessful cleanup 5 years later?
100
This is the outcome to the first solution.
What is radiation still left at Maralinga site?
200
This is the reason the British were in Maralinga from 1956-63.
What is, "To test nuclear capabilities as well as fire and non-nuclear explosions effects on atomic weapons."
200
This is when another cleanup (costing $108 million) started, even though it didn't help that much with the radiation.
What is the year 2000? (37 years after the tests ended)
200
Australian serviceman were subjected to this experiment during the testing.
What is the purposeful exposure to nuclear fallout?
200
This is how they tried to fix it the second time.
What is a $13 million settlement?
200
This is the outcome to the second solution.
What is the natives have money but still have radiation?
300
Along with hundreds of minor trials for non nuclear explosions there were this many nuclear tests.
What is 7?
300
When the McCelland Royal Comission investigated the Maralinga site in 1985 they found this.
What is signignificant radiation hazzards?
300
This is the percentage of serviceman who worked on the Maralinga site and died in their 50s, many of cancer.
What is 30%?
300
This is their 3rd attempt at fixing it.
What is a $108 million cleanup?
300
This is the outcome of the 3rd solution.
What is less radiation than before, 37 years later.
400
This is the TNT equivalent of the nuclear tests in Maralinga.
What is 1-27 kilotonnes of TNT?
400
These are the effects of radiation on the body.
What is radiation sickness, cancer, changes in DNA, premature aging, nausea, weakness, hair loss, skin burns or diminished organ function or even death.
400
This is the other stakeholder.
What is wildlife?
400
This is a better solution.
What is a successful cleanup right after?
400
This is the outcome of the better solution.
What is little radiation left behind to harm inhabitants of Maralinga?
500
This is the TNT equivalent of
What is 1-27?
500
Despite being declared clean 15 years ago the people of Australia still share this concern.
What is Maralinga still being contaminated.
500
This is how radiation harms the entire ecosystem.
What is affected soil affects plants which affects herbivores which affects carnivores.
500
This is the best solution.
What is not testing nuclear devices in an inhabited area?