[ RadSafe ] Re: radsafe Digest, Vol 122, Issue 1

[Mark Sonter]

For Peter Bossew, and others interested:

The tailings spill into the South Alligator river was not from Ranger, 
but was 'legacy issue' from a very small uranium mine called Rockhole 
that operated in the late 1950's under zero environmental controls, and 
which produced a grand total of about 200 tonnes of yellowcake. The 
tailings was discharged straight out of the mill onto the surrounding 
area, uncontained by any dam. The tailings was cleaned up in the 1990's.

Mark Sonter

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