This report will be based upon the Pangea project for Western Australia. The project will in fact damage the environment as well as endanger it and also disrupt aboriginal land. This is why the report will be based upon the negative aspects of the Pangea project in which dumping nuclear waste into Western Australia. Because there have been no long term dumpings in Australia yet the information of the actual dangers or accidents that may occur are limited, however the dangers and accidents are prone to happen therefore it supports my hypothesis

What is Pangea? Pangea are a company created specifically to expore the global nuclear dump concept and is a spin off of the international geotechnical company Golder Associates based in Toronto Canada. The investors include : British nuclear fuels Plc. (who have invested $35 million in the projecty) , Swiss rad waste agency, Nagra and Enterra Holdings, Golders parent holding company based also in Canada

The idea for the company came out of a discussion between two of Golder’s nuclear waste veterans, James Voss and then Golder Chai

The spent rods from nuclear reactors are termed ‘High level nuclear waste’, as once burned in a reactor they become one million times more radioactive than what it was when it was loaded. High level nuclear waste (HLW) must be handled remotely as direct exposure to the radioactive waste would provide a lethal dose within seconds.

There is also Low Level Waste. Low Level Waste Contains low levels of beta and gamma radiation emitters and low levels of alpha emitters. LLW is produced from many phases of the nuclear power and weapons industry, but also from medical and industrial applications. Anything coming into contact with radioactive material can be considered Low Level Waste.

While dumping the nuclear waste there may be too many variables that can be controlled. One for instance is the environment, what would happen if a natural disaster hit the area where the nuclear waste is kept, it could leak or damage the facility. Leakage is a big problem, if nuclear waste would leak the surrounding area would then be classified as contaminated. Other variables which cannot be controlled include human error, Human error is always bound to happen, whether it be carelessness or just a miscalculation, this could also result in contamination or leakage, human error is main cause of loss of life in many accidents.

Some topics in this essay:
RISKS DUMPING, Obviously Interstate, Risks Ionising, Western Australia, Water Contamination, Half-Life Xenon, Level Waste, Potassium Iodide, Nuclear Station, Agriculture Radiation, nuclear waste, level waste, nuclear power, radioactive particles, western australia, power stations, nuclear power stations, containers designed, low level, thyroid cancer, radioactive iodine, low level waste, containers designed withstand, dumping nuclear waste, chernobyl nuclear station,