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ra A little-known fact is that nuclear Professor Davis, one of 12 scientists f powered ships were banned from Sydney attached to the Nuclear Policy Program at harbour in 1984 by Premier Wran; they are the University of California, described two still officially banned today. nuclear accident scenarios; Under Federal Government policy If a nuclear weapon was accidentally nuclear armed or powered ships were incinerated in Sydney Harbour, likely wind banned from 1970 to 1976. In a leaked pattems would carry a radioactive cloud 1978 confidential report to the (then) containing plutonium-239 (at levels up to, Minister for Planning and the Environment 10,000 times the US safety limit) which it was stated that people would need westward over downtown Sydney. Davis to be evacuated from the vicinity of a estimates that the number of deaths from nuclear accident within two hours. Ms cancers and genetic defects would range up : : SOMETIMES Doherty said there had been no practice to 11,041 depending on atmospheric | GET VERY PEEVED WITH REALITY, — evacuation procedures in Sydney since the conditions. Greatest effects would be felt report was published almost a decade ago. within Skm of the accident and in the NEW CLEAR DAYS Nuclear-powered ships have entered Sydney suburbs under the path of the cloud, up to Harbour on numerous occasions in the past 55km away. In the case of a nuclear reactor three years. accident, up to 914 people would be If there was a nuclear warship accident A US scientist, Professor Jackson instant casualties. in an Australian port, the United States Davis, told the Senate Investigation that Professor Davis claimed that the US would throw a military security cordon the Australian Government should prepare Navy has not released the data necessary to around the area excluding all non-US a plan to clear downtown Sydney in one to evaluate the risks of shipboard fires or personne]. The Australian government two hours. He said a US warship accident reactor accidents, Without this information, could lose all control of events, according in Sydney could kill up to 11,000 people “acceptance by Australia of port visits by to documents obtained under US Freedom in a 55km radius by passive radioactive nuclear-capable or nuclear-powered vessels of Information laws. contamination. There would be more deaths is equivalent to acceptance of an The Senate Standing Committee on without effective evacuation and incalculable risk". Foreign Affairs Investigation into nuclear decontamination procedures. He said every A special advisor io the Defence vessels’ safety procedures .in Australian ventilated building would have to be Department, Mr Ross Thomas, gaye ports has been taking submissions on the decontaminated inside and out and all cars, evidence to the Committee that visiting subject, They have heard an extraordinary streets and al} extemal surfaces would have foreign warships disarm their nuclear series of reports revealing potentially to be rigorously cleaned and monitored. weapons only a few kilometres from disastrous implications stemming from the Australia should press for a clear statement Australian ports and cities. In Sydney, visits of nuclear ships to our shores. of US responsibility in the event of an nuclear weapons are still armed within up The Atomic Energy Commission told accident as the cleanup bill would cost to two miles of the harbour. the Senate committee that they had $220 billion, bankrupting the country at a insufficient knowledge to monitor nuclear- armed warships for radiation leaks. "There is no guarantee that they [the US Navy] would tell us if there was an accident or a leak of radioactive material,” former RAN Command Operations Officer, Michael Lynch told the Commitice. The officer responsible for all US nuclear vessel visits to Western Australia, he said the authorities had “absolutely no plan, procedure or organisation" for dealing with a nuclear leak and that an evacuation plan would be implemented for security, not environmental reasons. Ms Faith Doherty, Greenpeace nuclear disarmament coordinator, described a series of US Navy exercises called NUWAX; “During the exercises, a one-kilometre area around a nuclear weapons accident is sealed off completely and designated “American sovereign soil’, with no access to the public, the media or even representatives of the Government on whose territory the accident occurs”. NEW CLUB MEMBERS? Pakistan has entered the nuclear club along with Israel. The head of Pakistan's nuclear program admitted that! they could produce nuclear weapons; India's military budget was promptly increased by 40%. India is developing an inter- continental ballistic missile and will "keep its Options open”. Meanwhile, Argentina and Iran are on the verge of a deal to collaborate on nuclear power development. Last December negotiations began for Argentina to help complete long-delayed constuction of the Bushir 1 power station in Southem Iran, which was begun before the Shah was ousted. Iran would also be aided by the Kraftwerke Union (KWU) company of West Germany. OVER MATTER Life energy transmitted by a Chinese aster of an ancient breathing method has been shown to alter the molecular structure of water and three other liquids. The official China Daily reported that “qigong”, a healing art used to treat hypertension, gastric ulcers, cancers and other diseases = which uses qi (chi/ki), or life energy, was proven by laser technology to alter the fluids. SOMETIMES NEW CLUB MEMBERS? Pakistan has entered the nuclear club along with Israel. The head of Pakistan's nuclear program admitted that! they could produce nuclear weapons; India's military budget was promptly increased by 40%. India is developing an inter- continental ballistic missile and will "keep OVER MATTER its options open”. Meanwhile, Argentina and Iran are on the verge of a deal to collaborate on nuclear power development. 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