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Background on France’s uranium mining contamination

The Alliance 23 Sept 09 Why we are publishing such an old article? Well, there will be a series of articles about the past uranium mining in France and Canada.We will examine France and Canada’s weather with Virginia’s weather. We will examine the pollution problems of modern uranium mining in Canada and Australian! The Nuke bunch are talking up modern uranium mining, how it is safely regulated by the NRC(mill not mine) and EPA and we will prove the continue problems of uranium mining all over the world! Virginia will regulate the mines, sortof like they regulate Mt. Top Removal!
published by WISE News Communique on January 31, 1992

Recently, uranium wastes in France have been receiving more and more attention in the media. Among some of the headlines: “Many uranium mill tailings deposits found to be illegal”; “200,000 nuclear waste casks found in mined-out uranium mines”; “severe contamination of the environment with transport of uranium ores and uranium mill tailings”……………….
the environmental problems related to mining activities, the milling of the ore and especially the uranium mill tailings deposits went unnoticed for a long time. But a half year ago, the situation changed dramatically.

… THE Alliance … THE Alliance … THE Alliance …: France discovers legacy of its uranium mining

September 23, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes