Who Will Pay for a Nuclear Future
New Scientist, June 10, 2006
By Rob Edwards
As the world gears up to build new nuclear reactors the human cost of uranium mining is often forgotten.
In the mountain village of Kara Agach in Kyrgyzstan people are unwittingly eating radioactive waste. Radium left behind by more than two decades of uranium mining during the Soviet era has contaminated their chickens, milk, potatoes and pears.
A new study by Belgian and Kyrgyz scientists has (...)
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