{"id":273,"date":"2006-06-15T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2006-06-15T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:19:20","slug":"australias-only-nuclear-reactor-leaked-radioactive-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s only nuclear reactor leaked radioactive gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"mmmm, yummy. Have a bite, Johnny.\" title=\"mmmm, yummy. Have a bite, Johnny.\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/blinky_simpsons_fish.gif\" \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ansto.gov.au\/\">ANSTO<\/a> reports that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/heat-on-pm-over-nuclear-gas-leak\/2006\/06\/14\/1149964611537.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1\">a burst pipe last week at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor<\/a> caused a release of radioactive xenon and krypton gases into its Sutherland Shire neighbourhood, in an event reminiscent of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrc.gov\/reading-rm\/doc-collections\/fact-sheets\/3mile-isle.html\">Three Mile Island<\/a> accident in the USA in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>John Howard thinks that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/am\/content\/2006\/s1657092.htm\">we need nuclear power stations<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if we can&#8217;t keep even <em><strong>one<\/strong><\/em> very small scale research reactor totally sealed, he&#8217;s dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Pull the other one, Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANSTO reports that a burst pipe last week at the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor caused a release of radioactive xenon and krypton gases into its Sutherland Shire neighbourhood, in an event reminiscent of the Three Mile Island accident in the USA in 1979. John Howard thinks that we need nuclear power stations in Australia. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}