(Photo above courtesy ABC News, just part of the Sandy Ridge facility)
For decades federal and state governments have tried to find a place to
store low-level radioactive waste and failed. Now private company, Tellus
Holdings, has quietly amassed 100,000 tonnes of low-level radioactive and
chemical waste stored in the Western Australian outback at very isolated Sandy Ridge. (Photo below courtesy The West Australian - broad shot of the whole Sandy Ridge facility).
Maps above and clearer on Tellus PDF below. Sandy Ridge may be about 150km by helicopter ENE of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Or may be more than 3 hours and 200+kms by reliable 4WD east via the Great Eastern Highway from Kalgoorlie or out to blazes from Perth. See clearer image of MAPs on pages 3 and 8 of Tellus Holdings' PDF document at https://www.gemg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/52018-Sandy-Ridge-%E2%80%93-Australia%E2%80%99s-First-Dual-Revenue-Near-Surface-Geological-Repository.pdf
Separately in Adelaide
Today it was announced Federal parliament has passed
legislation that allows for low level nuclear waste to be stored and disposed of at Osborne shipyard in northeast sleepy Adelaide. Residents said they were not consulted or told of
the plan. Our AUKUS robot AlboGov (encouraged by his cheerful UK reps :) said the dump is going ahead whatever local plebs think or fear. See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/aukus-nuclear-waste-to-be-stored-adelaide-suburbs/104605640