Australian Radioactive house declared ‘unfit to live in’
Posted on June 24, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
AUSTRALIA. The New South Wales Government is under pressure to compensate and apologise to residents living on ‘radioactive’ land in Sydney’s north.
A Sydney couple bought the waterfront property at Hunters Hill from the Health Department seven years ago.
Uranium processing was carried out on the site a century ago, and independent testing shows some soil samples are 350 times more radioactive than what is considered safe.
The Government has carried out its own tests in the past and has repeatedly said the site is not dangerous.
But the property’s owners are using the new results to press the Government to buyback the property and pay compensation. Read More
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