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There seem to be some problems with the Coordinates given for some of the nuclear tests at Maralinga.
Kite - 28.89° S 131.648° E, These coordinates put this site 110 Km due north of the One Tree and Marcoo tests. The area does not seem to have been disturbed, there are no signs of any monitoring stations or roads as found to the south. The lattitude may be a degree off. The original referenced source confirms these coordinates but I think corroboration is needed.
[Fixed] Breakaway - 29.895° S 29.895° E, These coordinates are a typo. They place the test in South Africa!! The original referenced source gives this longitude 131.604 E
I recommend viewing these locations in Google earth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.68.30 ( talk • contribs)
Thanks, I've had a look around and found this: http://www.mapw.org.au/conferences/mapw2000/papers/parkinson.html
This might be the conference paper you were thinking of. It has maps of the test sites and puts the kite test much closer to the others. I'll try to work them out on google earth and then post them here.
The Map matches the road patterns and confirms the "good" site coordinate we have already. It places the Kite test on the road, south west from the One-Tree test. The Coordinates for the site are close to 29°52'52.88"S, 131°39'10.10"E, If I have done my maths right this link should match those coordinates. ( 29°52′48″S 131°39′07″E / 29.88°S 131.652°E)
A more exact location would be better before we change the main page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.68.30 ( talk • contribs)
I could look that up. I live an hour south of Sydney. I'm a little busy in the next few days but I'll look into it. Have you any specific information about the royal commision report and where it is? ( Mckinlayr 08:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC))
Parkinson takes his map of the sites from page 9 this article: http://www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/TECHREPT/arl070_pt1.pdf
The second half of the article and references are in a seperate file: http://www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/TECHREPT/arl070_pt2.pdf
You can find both files under 1985 on http://www.arpansa.gov.au/techrpt.htm
It includes a scale on the map and marks out key features. The map may have been made from on ground measurements by the author, I can't find a specific reference for it. I guess the only way would be to search through each reference individually. ( Mckinlayr 10:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC))
This document from the has a map of the site on page 28 : http://www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/TECHREPT/arl005.pdf I guess now I just have to look for common entries in the references of both papers and perhaps find the right data. ( Mckinlayr 10:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC))
Last for tonight, Chapter 1 of this report contains new maps of the site. http://www.radioactivewaste.gov.au/publications/maralinga.htm
Oddly, the relative positions of the Kite and Tadje seem to have shifted in this newer map, in the older maps Tadje was to the south west of kite along the road. In this document Kite is shown to be east of the road and directly in line with Tadje. Perhaps these were from different surveys or maybe errors in either document. ( Mckinlayr 10:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC))
A good start, but there are some irregularities to be ironed out and some skinny parts need reinforcing.
Apart from that the POV/RS/COPYVIO stuff is all fine. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 00:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
What is the dark round feature, about 2km diameter, on google earth at 30o 03'34" S, 129o21'30"? Can anyone upload a google earth image of a nuclear test site? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danielj79 ( talk • contribs) 23:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
It looks like a different soil type or possibly different vegetation There is another one about 8km east. It is nothing to do with the Maralinga tests which were about 250 km further East.
Baskaxy ( talk) 01:27, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
I have a concern with this terminology
Socrates2008 ( Talk) 08:48, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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SkoreKeep ( talk) 15:25, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
With regard to Maralinga being part of the Woomera Prohibited Area. The book Fire Across the Desert was commissioned by the Government to document the history of the Anglo Australian Joint Project 1946 to 1980. Although it doesn't discuss Maralinga in great detail it does state at page 224; "much closer to the transcontinental railway line at Watson and in a seperate prohibited area, was Maralinga" and "The atomic tests were not conducted under the joint project but under a seperate agreement. The distinction, particularly before the foundation of Maralinga permanent test range, was in practice a hazy one." The boundary of the Woomera Prohibited Area has been changed a number of times during its history and in each instance the amendment was published in the Commonwealth Gazette and a "Plan" of the area deposited with the South Australian State Lands Department. Some of these "Plans" dependant on their date show the Maralinga Prohibited Area and the Woomera Prohibited Area to be seperate but adjoining Prohibited Areas. The file 62/5430 Extension of Aboriginal Reserves in the Maralinga Proibited Area was raised in August 1962 and it contains two drawings detailing that there are two distinct Prohibited Areas. This file is available to the public on the National Archives of Australia website. The last of the Maralinga Prohibited Area known as Section 400 has recently been handed back to the traditional owners of the area. The boundary of the Woomera Prohibited Area in this region was unclear as in a number of publications it appears to divide Section 400 into two areas (approximately two thirds north and one third south)of the east west boundary. I would suggest that the "Plan" deposited with the South Australian State Lands Department would need to be viewed to determine the location of the boundary and when it was changed. Charliebarsby ( talk) 23:10, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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I believe that the 6th para under "Legacy" misrepresents these studies. It states that "Only 2%[sic: this should be 4%] of participants received more than the current Australian annual dose limit for occupationally exposed persons (20 mSv)" but then undermines this by making two irrelevant comments. Firstly that some Australians flew through the mushroom clouds and some marched through contaminated areas. But the DVA report discusses this, and such groups are among the 4% who received more than 20mSv. Secondly that "radioactive rain" fell in Queensland and particularly Brisbane. It is well known that there was fallout over large areas of Australia (it is mentioned in para 2 under operation Buffalo above), but it was very low level, and crucially, has nothing to do with the exposure of those who were at Maralinga (or the other test sites).
The second area of concern is that the second of the two DVA studies "Mortality and Cancer Incidence" is not mentioned although it is clearly very relevant to the "Legacy" of the tests. This found that the overall mortality rate of the participants was in fact no different from that of the Australian population. There was an increase in cancer rates, but there was no relationship with radiation exposure: that is the cancer rate amongst those most exposed was no more than that of those with little or no exposure. Instead there is confusing statement that 30% of British participants had died in their 50's from cancer. This has no proper reference: the reference given is to a newspaper article reporting the claim by one of the lawyers in a trial.
So I propose to replace this para with something like :
"Two reports on the Australian test participants have been published by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The first, "Dosimetry" concluded "Overall, the doses received by Australian participants were small. ... Only 4% of participants received more than the current Australian annual dose limit for occupationally exposed persons (20 mSv)". The highest doses were to aircrew flying through mushroom clouds, and to those entering contaminated areas soon after the detonations. The second report "Mortality and Cancer Incidence" found that the overall death rate of test participants was not increased above that of the general Australian population. Cancer rates were however increased, but there was no indication that this was due to radiation: that is, those exposed to higher levels of radiation did not have higher cancer rates than those with low or no exposure."
If anyone can come up with a proper reference to a creditable British study, then we can include that.
Baska436 ( talk) 11:13, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
"The Australian Government accepted the findings of the royal commission, but rejected its recommendation that the British Government should pay all the costs of a clean up."
If so, this is the first time I've ever heard of a government saying "no, we won't let you pay for it! We want to pay for it ourselves!" Later the text mentions "the long debate over the cleanup costs"....you're saying that this debate is both sides insisting that they be allowed to pay for it? Or did someone just get something backwards here?
64.223.166.179 ( talk) 21:56, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
What does the source say?
The Australian Government responded to the recommendations of the Royal Commission in September 1986, accepting most of the recommendations. Recommendation 4 for the formation of a ‘Maralinga Commission’ was rejected, as was Recommendation 6, which recommended that the clean-up costs be entirely borne by the British
The reasons are not stated, but the source says:
Following agreement in March 1991 between the three stakeholders for the Maralinga Lands—Maralinga Tjarutja, the South Australian Government and the Commonwealth Government—on the preferred approach for the partial rehabilitation of the Maralinga lands, Cabinet funding was conditionally approved on the proviso that the British Government made a significant contribution to the cost of the project. Late in 1991, Australia’s claims were put to the British Government both at the Ministerial and technical levels. In June 1993 a UK ex-gratis offer amounting to £UK 20 million for settlement of Australia’s claims against the British nuclear program in Australia was accepted.
That's about $36 million, so the UK wound up paying for about a third of the cleanup. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
I am relatively certain, given that the link points to the article for the United States' Nevada Test Site, that this is somehow just an odd transcription error or something, but before I change it I want to make sure I'm not missing something. The article claims that the European Government's preferred testing site was the "Nevada Test Site in France." Surely that's not right? Lekoman ( talk) 03:42, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
Under the section on Operation Buffalo there are a number of photos purporting to be of each shot in the series, from Buffalo R1/One tree through Buffalo R2/Marcoo to Buffalo R3/Kite.
I am no expert in photographic analysis but the photos for R1/One Tree and R2/Marcoo appear to be two different still frames from the same movie. The giveaways include the small cloud formation on the left hand side at the base of the mushroom cloud, the shape of the main cloud frontal protuberance and the alignment of the yield shot estimation trails behind the main cloud.
I could be wrong but someone with better research skills than I may want to confirm the source(s) of the two photos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.36.176.129 ( talk) 22:03, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Four introductory paragraphs, none of them short - a bit extreme for Wikipedia? Or maybe I haven't kept up with changing standards. Robin Patterson ( talk) 03:57, 16 January 2022 (UTC)