Buried wastes 'not a health hazard’
PA ! Wellington / The burial: of radioz active wastes under a Wellington suburb sports ground does not present a health hazard, the National Radiation Laboratory says. About six truckloads of contaminated laboratory fittings from Victoria University’s physics laboratory in ' the Hunter Building were reportedly buried at the former tip
in I Wilton between 1964 and 1966. [j But a scientist at the radiation laboratory, Mr : Wally Randle, said there would be no danger to anyone playing on the grounds above the tip. i [ i I the fittings would be I buried beneath 20 to 30 [ feet of soil and the ele- ! ment involved in the contamination, radium, vias ! only harmful if ingested, I he said. !
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Press, 13 April 1988, Page 31
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