AUSTRALIANS think nuclear waste is a bigger health risk than motor vehicle
accidents, according to a research report released last month by the enHealth
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…
