news.asiaone.com
May 15, 2010
MALAYSIA, KUALA LUMPUR, May 15, 2010 - There is 'a small amount' of nuclear waste buried in Perak and the disposal site is still regarded unsafe, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. 'In Malaysia, we do have nuclear waste which perhaps the public is not aware of. We have to bury the amang, a by-product from tin mining. 'It is not radioactive but it is not good to handle. We had to bury it in Perak, deep in the ground. 'But the place is still not safe, and we have almost one square mile that is dangerous,' he said.
Dr Mahathir did not know exactly where in Perak the amang was buried. 'Maybe it is a national secret but I know for a fact that we buried this activated material,' he said in a press conference yesterday at the Al-Bukhary Foundation. Dr Mahathir said that he was against nuclear power plants and anything involving nuclear energy, unless it was for medical use, because scientists had yet to understand the power of nuclear material. He was commenting on the Government's proposal to build a nuclear power plant, slated to start operations in 2021.
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