Digital resources tagged with ‘nuclear energy’

Australia's First Nuclear Reactor

Prime Minister Robert Menzies opens the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, and marvels at nuclear energy being a relatively new phenomenon in the world.

Australian Biography - Sir Marcus Oliphant

The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Sir Mark Oliphant helped to create the bomb, but even though it ended the war he can never reconcile himself to the loss of civilian life.

Bitter Memories

Bikinians are asked to leave their island to make way for US atomic testing.

Distant Voices -- Dennis O'Rourke interview

Producer and director Dennis O'Rourke believes Bikinians did not fully understand why they left their home in the 1940s.

Francis Ona

Francis Ona was the man who single-handedly sparked Bougainville's civil war.

Journalist's Diary of a Conflict

Veteran ABC journalist, Sean Dorney, looks back on his time in Papua New Guinea covering the Bougainville crisis.

Lifetime in Limbo

The people of Bikini Atoll are still waiting to return home more than 50 years after the United States Navy removed them.

Nuclear Fall Out

Strontium 90, one of the deadliest poisons known, is a by product of the nuclear testing which Great Britain conducted in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s.