Radiation News Roundup May 28, 2016 A portion of low-level nuclear waste generated by nuclear reactors is to be buried at a depth of 70 meters underground until it is nearly no longer radioactive some 100,000 years from now, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said on May 25. mainichi.jp Pakistan's nuclear program was developed to make the country's defense impregnable, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday, adding it was a guarantee for peace in the South Asian region . economictimes.indiatimes.com MORE than 100 sites across South Australia will be visited during a three-month public engagement program about a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository. adelaidenow.com Dr. c, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, on Saturday said that the country could have become a nuclear power as early as 1984 but the then President General Zia-ul-Haq “opposed the move”. thehindu.com
