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No U-Turn. Report on Uranium mining in France (1980)
| Auteur | CAIMAN |
| Datum | 1980* |
| Classificatie | 2.02.5.10/05 (FRANKRIJK - URANIUMMIJNBOUW) |
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Uit de publicatie:
NO U-TURN ! REPORT ON URANIM MINING IN FRANCE The 80ies will see the decisive battle of people against nuclear power. In countries where there are already nuclear plants, struggles will concentrate on uranium mining and nuclear waste reprocessing and disposal. In the other cases, every link of the nuclear cycle will have to be opposed in the most uncompromising way by anti- nuclear activists. But the need for efficiency in the anti-nuclear struggle inevitably leads to an overall reflexion on strategy, in order to find out the priorities in a concrete situation and to hit the weak link of the chain which is likely to provide a stronger basis to hit other links and raise the morale of the people. We must take advantage of the fact that, from a technological point of view, nuclear power is archaic, since its development depends on a regular supply of a raw material, i.e. uranium, just like coal- or oil-fired electricity generating stations. If this supply can be strangled on a broadly enough scale, the whole nuclear programme of one or several countries will collapse. The trouble is that there are uranium deposits throughout the world in various sorts of rocks, which allow the mining business to play a soft game with their dirty activity. There is the main ason why we find it necessary to internationalize the anti-nuclear and anti-uranium struggle at every level, not only in order to comfort each other through verbal solidarity, but to share and circulate useful information, experiences and ultimately action. We in CAIMAN felt it important to publish this pamphlet which aims at helping the anti-nuclear movement in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, where there is no uranium mining so far but serious threats of it, especially in Ireland and the Orkney Islands. The question of uranium mining being the weak link of the nuclear chain remains to be debated, but, surely enough, the anti-nuclear movement (especially in France) has neglected it in comparison with the other nuclear threats, but things are changing, obviously. In English-speaking countries, the dangers of uranium mining have been exposed mostly with references to the US, Canadian and Australian experiences and an emphasis on technical and medical questions, which is quite normal. We chose to focus more on the political, economical context of uranium mining in France as well as on the struggles themselves, because French nuclear imperialism is getting more and more aggressive inside the EEC, in Africa and other parts of the world.*) Geschatte datum
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