Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King visits the site chosen for Australia's first nuclear waste facility near Kimba, South Australia, where preparations are expected to continue for two years before construction can commence.
More federal money for the host town of Kimba is reliant on the facility's construction
"There are strict protocols around the work that is going on right now to make sure there is no disturbance of cultural heritage." Local grain farmer Peter Woolfood met with the minister to express concerns about the facility's threat to the region's "clean, green, agricultural image". "There is no high-level waste produced in Australia and there will not be high-level waste stored at the facility so far as planned," she said.Kimba District Council has benefited from a $6 million federal grants program, currently in its final round, for waste site candidates.
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