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The reason this area is so interesting to me was because I’d know of it for years as /almost/ becoming the site for Australia’s (or rather, the hawkish factions of the Liberal Party) Uranium enrichment facility. Since the 1940s, there’d been a belief that the country should have nuclear power, and more urgently, weapons. Only one small problem– the existing global nuclear powers were keen on non-proliferation (but we all know the big-L Liberal’s attitude towards International treaties that aren’t theirs…) and also the small issue of the United States and Britain just not trusting the competency of babby Australia’s Intelligence services, or the industrial sector, given our history and reputation of failing hard.
Anyway, the enrichment facility got as far as laying down the foundations for several buildings in the Jervis Bay Territory, before the McMahon government nixed the project. The area is now a rather spacious car-park, right next to the 'best beach in Australia', Murray's Beach. (That almost became radioactive...)
