Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swaths of South Australia.
Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her ancestral home in the remote Flinders Ranges — a nuclear waste dump.
"To me, it feels like a death penalty," said Marsh, 73, standing in the cemetery of the outback town of Hawker, where many of her relatives are buried under red earth.
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