Roff S R
Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee.
Med Confl Surviv. 1998 Oct-Dec;14(4):290-302. doi: 10.1080/13623699808409409.
In mid-summer 1997, just as the United States National Cancer Institute was acknowledging that the nuclear bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site may ultimately cause up to 75,000 cases of thyroid cancer in people who were living in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, the Australian authorities were mooting the possibility that the Maralinga test sites in South Australia should become a tourist attraction. Some Aboriginal tribal leaders welcomed this proposed use when the 20 million Pounds 'clean-up' being paid for by the United Kingdom government as some compensation for using the area for its weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s is completed. This paper surveys the attempts to clean up the site of UK nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, not least by attempting to vitrify vast tracts of desert.
1997年仲夏，正当美国国家癌症研究所承认内华达试验场的核弹试验最终可能导致20世纪50年代和60年代居住在美国的人中有多达75000例甲状腺癌时，澳大利亚当局正在讨论南澳大利亚的马拉林加试验场成为旅游景点的可能性。当英国政府支付2000万英镑用于“清理”（作为对20世纪50年代和60年代在该地区进行武器试验的某种补偿）工作完成时，一些原住民部落领袖对这一拟议用途表示欢迎。本文审视了20世纪50年代清理英国核武器试验场地的种种努力，尤其是试图将大片沙漠玻璃化的尝试。
