Alan Parkinson (engineer)
- Alan Parkinson (engineer)
Alan Parkinson is a mechanical and nuclear engineer who lives in Canberra, Australia. He is also a whistleblower who has written the 2007 book, "", about the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South Australia. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2007/2019647.htm Maralinga - Australia's nuclear waste cover-up] ]
In 1993, Parkinson became the key person on the Maralinga clean-up project, representing the then federal Labor government (through the Department of Primary Industry and Energy). By 1997, however, there was much cost-cutting involved in the project, and differences of opinion about how the project should proceed, which led to the sacking of Parkinson by the new Howard government.[ [http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/730/37829 Maralinga's nuclear nightmare continues] ] ]The clean-up, which involved simply burying untreated long-lived radioactive debris in holes in the ground, was totally unsatisfactory according to Parkinson. He exposed the situation through the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, provoking a strong rebuttal from the government, composed of scientific distortion and personal abuse.[ ]ee also
*Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
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External links
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2005/1491985.htm Nuclear Power - Rational or Irrational?]
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