A Farming Town Divided: Do We Want a Nuclear Site that Brings Jobs?<br />Those against the facility, like Peter Woolford, a third-generation Kimba farmer,<br />and part of the No Radioactive Waste on Agricultural Land in Kimba or South Australia group, say it will hurt the prices of crops and farmland.<br />That’s when two local farming families offered their properties to the federal government as potential storage sites for Australia’s nuclear waste.<br />The public battle over where to store Australia’s growing pile of medical nuclear waste — including low-<br />and intermediate-level waste like contaminated plastic containers and protective clothing from nuclear research — stretches back years, and several aborted sites.<br />Now, as the federal government considers whether to build the site on one of these two<br />farms in Kimba, this community of about 650 people finds itself divided and angry.<br />Annie Clements said that People say it’s a really thriving town, but underneath people are paddling like hell to keep up,<br />Each year, the amount of low-level waste generated in Australia is smaller than one shipping container, according<br />to government figures, along with intermediate-level radioactive waste the size of a Dumpster.
