In Australia, a large test site has placed in Maralinga Region. There were made tests of the nuclear weapon by Great Britain. The last tests were in 1963 and at that time the territory was polluted with nuclear waste. When the site was officially demolished, specialists begin to clean the territory. Only in 2000 it was finished.
In the 20th century nobody thought about the future of the local tribes that lived in this territory. In 1994 the government of Australia decided to pay an indemnity to the representatives of Tjarutja tribe amount of 13,5 million USA dollars. In the Australian test site, the first tests were made in 1955. All in all, there were made seven test sequences, the highest power was 27 kilotons.
The test was used not only for explosions. In particular, there was investigated how the nuclear weapon reacts on fire and some types of conventional detonations. Today specialists claim that the great part of the test site is safe from nuclear poisons. For hundreds of cleaning works were spent about 108 million dollars. Now the largest area in Australia is safe for living, local aborigines’ tribes can live there without any risks. However, there were made a lot of harm to locals at the time of nuclear tests and it is impossible to make anything with it.
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