The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that's spewed acid into the environment for decades
Buried in last week’s budget was money for rehabilitating the Rum Jungle uranium mine near Darwin. The exact sum was not disclosed. Rum Jungle used to be a household name. It was Australia’s first large-scale uranium mine and supplied the US and British nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War. Today, the mine is better known for extensively polluting the Finniss River after it closed in 1971. Despite a major rehabilitation project by the Commonwealth in the 1980s, the damage to the local environment is ongoing. I first visited Rum Jungle in 2004, and it was a colourful mess, to say...
Source: theconversation.com