Article 4YR14 Matt Canavan announces nuclear waste dump location in South Australia

Matt Canavan announces nuclear waste dump location in South Australia

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Farm on Eyre Peninsula volunteered by owner to house low and medium risk waste

A farming property on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula will become a nuclear waste dump, the federal government has announced, but opponents of the facility are making a last-bid ditch to stop it.

On Saturday the federal resources minister, Matt Canavan, said 160 hectares of the Napandee property in Kimba would host Australia's radioactive waste, the vast majority of which comes from the production of nuclear medicine and is held across more than 100 sites.

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