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Nullarbor Plain  Testing for radiation, Australia. During the 1950s, the UK carried out a number of atom-bomb experiments in the Nullarbor Desert of southern Western Australia. Fallout was detected across the country while service personnel in the immediate area were exposed to high levels of radiation. Radiation levels at the test-sites are still very high. | Arid coastal plateau area divided between Western and South Australia; there is a network of caves beneath it. Atom-bomb experiments were carried out in the 1950s at Maralinga, an area in the northeast bordering on the Great Victoria Desert. |
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