Australia on the Same Footing as Kazakhstan...

February 24, 2006
Authorities in Kazakhstan are eager to advance a plan to develop the country's nuclear energy industry and build a nuclear power plant. They argue that Kazakhstan needs to develop alternative energy sources. However, many Kazakhs oppose the idea, citing the serious health and environmental consequences suffered by hundreds of thousands of people living close to a former nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk.
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If anyone wants to learn more about the health and safety concerns of people in that region, just for starters, there are places where 98% of the population have respiratory diseases and where 10% of pregnant women are healthy. Can this happen in Australia? Most would say we would not be so stupid to allow such events to get out of control, that we have all the correct procedures in place but these are indeed words of caution for us. And these people have lived through such times. We need to be less arrogant and listen to others experiences in the world.