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4 Good reasons to stop uranium mining (1990)

AuteurGreenpeace Canada
Datum1990
Classificatie 3.02.5.10/06 (CANADA - URANIUMMIJNBOUW)
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Uit de publicatie:

a massive gamble 

The Canadian government is engaged in a massive gamble which may lead 
to hundreds of deaths, fuel the arms race, contaminate the north, and leave 
an insoluble radioactive waste problem for our children.

Did you know that Canada is the largest pusher of nuclear fuel in the world? 
Uranium, a white metal, is used to produce nuclear weapons, and to fuel 
nuclear reactors for electricity and naval propulsion.

Did you also know that uranium mining produces up to 1000 times as much 
radioactive waste as it does radioactive product? Or that Canadian uranium is 
used to build weapons in France, the United Kingdom, the USA and even the 
Soviet Union?

Canada is the largest producer and exporter of uranium in the world. The expansion 
of the industry now underway, backed by Federal and Provincial money, represents 
a 60% increase in uranium production in Canada.

The Canadian government is at this moment promoting massive uranium 
expansion without a national policy debate:

• despite the unsolved radioactive waste crisis in this country (120 million tonnes 
of uranium waste alone, plus spent reactor fuel and a million tonnes of waste in 
other communities);

• even when the price of uranium is so low that virtually no economic benefits 
will flow to Canadians;

• AND the Environment Minister, M. Lucien Bouchard, has been put up to 
telling Canadians that nuclear power is clean and desirable, without mentioning 
the devastation of producing uranium.

Only the public's voice, loud and clear, can stop the pro-nuclear Mulroney 
government from laying radioactive waste to Canada, through uranium mining 
and the construction of yet more nuclear reactors.

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