AUSTRALIANS think nuclear waste is a bigger health risk than motor vehicle
accidents, according to a research report released last month by the enÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ
Council, an advisory body to the Federal government on issues of environmental
health.
More than 20 000 people died on Australian roads in the past decade, and a
further quarter of a million were seriously injured. I cannot recall any public
injury arising from nuclear waste during that period. So, as a member of the
council, I was startled by the data collected for the report by South
Australia’s Centre for Population Studies in Epidemiology.
The…
