A Farming Town Divided: Do We Want a Nuclear Site that Brings Jobs?
Those against the facility, like Peter Woolford, a third-generation Kimba farmer,
and part of the No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land in Kimba or South Australia group, say it will hurt the prices of crops and farmland.
That’s when two local farming families offered their properties to the federal government as potential storage sites for Australia’s nuclear waste.
The public battle over where to store Australia’s growing pile of medical nuclear waste — including low-
and intermediate-level waste like contaminated plastic containers and protective clothing from nuclear research — stretches back years, and several aborted sites.
Now, as the federal government considers whether to build the site on one of these two
farms in Kimba, this community of about 650 people finds itself divided and angry.
Annie Clements said that People say it’s a really thriving town, but underneath people are paddling like hell to keep up,
Each year, the amount of low-level waste generated in Australia is smaller than one shipping container, according
to government figures, along with intermediate-level radioactive waste the size of a Dumpster.
