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> If you want to put human faces to the story of nuclear power, you have to begin at the beginning. That’s why those who continue to promote nuclear power never begin at the beginning. Because if they do, they meet the faces of the people who are the first witnesses to the fundamentally anti-humanitarian nature of the nuclear age.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/12/the-forgotten-faces-on-the-uranium-trail/
#NuclearPower #UraniumMining #NuclearsHumanFaces #NuclearGenocide #NuclearPollution #UraniumMining

\HT @thomas

The Forgotten Faces on the Uranium Trail

My favorite piece of fictional writing of all time is the play for voices, Under Milk Wood by the Welsh writer, Dylan Thomas. It opens like this: “To

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> Mostly, we find people who already had little and now have lost so much more. We find people whose ancient beliefs were centered in stewardship of the Earth, whose tales and legends talk of dragons and rainbow serpents and yellow dust underground that must never be disturbed.

#MythWisdom #MythAttention

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> We are seeing a genocide. Because a genocide is not just a massacre. A genocide is also the erasure of a people culturally. It is the destruction of a way of life, often also a language, a belief system.
> It was at that moment, when we first dug uranium out of the ground, that nuclear power became a human rights violation.
#Genocide #GenocideDefinition #WorkingGenocideDefinition
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> Areva, now Orano, whose subsidiaries mine there, make millions, lighting swank Paris apartments overlooking the Seine with nuclear powered electricity fueled by the sweat and toil of people whose children pick up radioactive rocks from the sandy streets and whose fathers die in the local hospital where the Areva-hired doctors tell them their fatal illnesses have nothing whatever to do with exposures at the mines.
#Areva #Orano #RadioactiveWaste #NuclearDoctors #FactoryTowns
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> In Illinois in the early 2000s, far too many children living between two nuclear power plants are suffering from brain cancer. Childhood brain cancer is extremely rare. Here there are numerous cases and they are rising. The children are taken away to Chicago for medical treatment. Those who die there are not recorded in the statistics of their local community. In this way, their deaths have nothing whatever to do with the nuclear power plants.
#NuclearCancer #NuclearStatistics
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> In Japan, before that fateful moment on March 11, 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began melting down, the legal radiation exposure limit for the Japanese public was one millisievert a year. This is still too high. But after the disaster, when cleaning up the radioactive contamination proved an impossible task, the Japanese government raised the exposure limit, by 20 times.
#NuclearJapan #JapaneseGovernment #JapaneseBureaucracy #FukushimaDaiIchi #NuclearPlants
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> In Finland, a deep geological repository is under construction, even though no one can be sure if it will work, or how it can be marked so curious future generations don’t excavate it.

#LindaPentzGunter #HotStoriesRadioactiveWorld #Finland #Onkalo ? #IntoEternity ?