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A short post from my next business trip. This time my steps led about an hour by plane north of Adelaide. The place is called Olympic Dam and is one of the biggest mine which mined copper, along with uranium. And just because of uranium is radioactive they have very strict safety regulations. Radioactivity is here, however, very low, lower than the dose an individual gets on the plane. The whole theater is because of government.
Before arrival, I had to complete online health and safety training, after mastering I had to bring my certificate, otherwise they would not let me in. But you do not need to bring any protective clothing because they provide all there. It works like this. After passing the main gate you go into the locker room, where there are two zones - dirty and clean. When entering from the outside world, first you enter the clean sector, where everyone has his locker with washed clothes. And I mean everything. You can't bring any clothes to dirty zone, including underwear. At end of the day we come back through the dirty zone. Here again you throw all the things in the big bath for laundry, then each one is required to shower. After that you move to the clean zone to your cabinet, where the civilian clothes is locked. Get dressed, go out the main gate and the day in the mines is over.
Overall the work wasn't very complex, but it was a great experience, even because of the number of rules they have I couldn't see so much, because they would not let me go anywhere. After the work I moved a few miles to the one and only hotel in the adjacent small town of Roxby Downs that have actually been built when they built this mine. It's just a few streets, one hotel, shopping center, school, cinema. A little hideaway But hotel was to my surprise pretty nice, even had a swimming pool in the middle, but it was out of service but maybe just because of spring still coming. I have to go back here in a couple of weeks, so I'm curious, maybe next time I can also swim there :)
A short post from my next business trip. This time my steps led about an hour by plane north of Adelaide. The place is called Olympic Dam and is one of the biggest mine which mined copper, along with uranium. And just because of uranium is radioactive they have very strict safety regulations. Radioactivity is here, however, very low, lower than the dose an individual gets on the plane. The whole theater is because of government.
Before arrival, I had to complete online health and safety training, after mastering I had to bring my certificate, otherwise they would not let me in. But you do not need to bring any protective clothing because they provide all there. It works like this. After passing the main gate you go into the locker room, where there are two zones - dirty and clean. When entering from the outside world, first you enter the clean sector, where everyone has his locker with washed clothes. And I mean everything. You can't bring any clothes to dirty zone, including underwear. At end of the day we come back through the dirty zone. Here again you throw all the things in the big bath for laundry, then each one is required to shower. After that you move to the clean zone to your cabinet, where the civilian clothes is locked. Get dressed, go out the main gate and the day in the mines is over.
Overall the work wasn't very complex, but it was a great experience, even because of the number of rules they have I couldn't see so much, because they would not let me go anywhere. After the work I moved a few miles to the one and only hotel in the adjacent small town of Roxby Downs that have actually been built when they built this mine. It's just a few streets, one hotel, shopping center, school, cinema. A little hideaway But hotel was to my surprise pretty nice, even had a swimming pool in the middle, but it was out of service but maybe just because of spring still coming. I have to go back here in a couple of weeks, so I'm curious, maybe next time I can also swim there :)
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