In this paper I examine the case of the highly controversial Jabiluka uranium mine which was recently given the green signal by the John Howard government. The mine, to be constructed in the heart of the Kakadu National Park (home to the Mirrar people and a World Heritage site) has been the topic of public debate and controversy involving Aboriginal communities, political parties, the mining in...

Amorphous uranium dioxide (UO 2 ) has been modelled on the atomic scale using a combination of quantum mechanical (density functional theory) and classical forcefield methods (molecular dynamics reverse Monte-Carlo). The structure amorphous state predicted is presented in form simulated X-ray diffraction patterns, pair correlation functions bond angle distributions. These are shown to be consis...