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Days after the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017 has been published, WISE International launched an article by Jim Green “Nuclear power’s death spiral and the demise of uranium miners”, exploring on a global level the future of uranium and uranium mining companies. It becomes obvious that even pro-nuclear people see the future of nuclear…

Not one month ago, on October 2, Doug Brugge found himself in an unusual place: a Tanzanian police station. Brugge, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts Medical School, and a Member of the Tisch College faculty, had traveled to that country’s capital for a conference on the dangers of uranium mining. The…

download full text (pdf) 1. Introduction This report is the result of a project on uranium mining in Namibia commissioned by the Centre for Research on Multi-national Corporations (SOMO). The findings are based on secondary literature drawn mainly from the writings of Earthlife Namibia and empirical data collected by LaRRI during July and August 2007.…

Jan Willem Storm van LeeuwenIndependent consultantCeedataChaam, The Netherlands22 November 2010 AbstractThis study starts with a physical assessment of the quantities of the radioactivity being generated and mobilized by the entire system of related industrial processes making civilian nuclear power possible. It assesses the actual and potential exposure of the public to natural and human-made nuclear…

By HELEN CALDICOTT Published: The New York Times, April 30, 2011, Sydney, AustraliaSix weeks ago, when I first heard about the reactor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, I knew the prognosis: If any of the containment vessels or fuel pools exploded, it would mean millions of new cases of cancer in the…

Unexpected Rates of Chromosomal Instabilities and Alterations of Hormone Levels in Namibian Uranium MinersReinhard Zaire, Michael Notter, Werner Riedel, and Eckhard Thiel, Radiation Research, 1997

Analysis of lymphocytes from uranium mineworkers in Namibia for chromosomal damage using Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH)Reinhard Zaire(a), Carol S. Griffin (b), Corresponding Author Contact Information, Paul J. Simpson (b), David G. Papworth (b), John R. K. Savage (b), Sue Armstrong (c) and Maj A. Hultènc

by Inge Lindemann, Oct / Nov 2008 / April 2010 A comprehensive compilation of the basics and the latest findings in regard to the health hazards of uranium, the diseases it may cause, the effects on environment, water, air etc., with links to the relevant scientific studies. … read more

by Dr. Chris Busby and Prof. Dr. Ewald Schnug, Nov 2009 Latest scientific findings of Prof. Schnug and Dr. Busby in regard to uranium contamination. … read more

F. Knolle, S. Haneklaus and E. Schnug, 2009 Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Braunschweig, Germany Proceedings from 17th International Symposium of the International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers (CIEC), Plant Nutrient Management Under Stress Conditions,November 24-27, 2008, Egypt. El-Zaiem Press, Cairo-Giza 2008 Egyptian National Library Legal…