BY PETER HYSLOP
Lobby group Don't Nuke The Climate has produced detailed maps of what a Chernobyl-style accident would look like at a proposed Liddell site in the Hunter.
The Coalition has vowed to build a reactor at the former coal-fired power station, saying reliable base load power is needed.
Understood to be connected with climate action groups, the organisation says about 35,000 people would theoretically need to be evacuated in suburbs including Muswellbrook, Aberdeen, Singleton, Jerrys Plains and Denman.
Anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Jim Green says they've worked on detailed maps.
"On the website people can choose any of the seven proposed nuclear power sites and they can choose a wind direction and that will show the spread of radioactive fallout based on the Fukushima disaster," he said.
"So it gives a rough idea of the spread of radioactive fallout and also the concentration of fallout in different areas.
"Fukushima is an appropriate basis for this project primarily because it's an advanced industrial wealthy country like Australia is, and the reactors that they're proposing in Australia are much the same as the reactors that were in operation at the Fukushima disaster 14 years ago," he said.
 |
| Credit: Nuclearplume.au |
