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uranium mining
trojan tv - 08.05.2004 17:32
bericht van tour de france
Uranium mining
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> The COGEMA S.A. is the firm which produces the fuel for the nuclear power
> plants. They do this at the MOX factory in Caderache and the Melox factory
> in Marcoule. Next to that they own the retreatment factory in La Hague.
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> Uranium is needed to make the nuclear fuel. After the closure of the last
> mine in France ("Le Bernardan" at Jouac, Haute Vienne on May 31, 2001),
they
> are completely depending on uranium from mines in other countries.
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> But how bad is this 'dependency' for Cogema and France? The Cogema
compagny
> owns large percentages of the mining compagnies in countries like Canada
and
> Australia. In countries like Gabun and Niger the Cogema compagny even owns
> majority percentages of the mining compagny (resp. 68% of COMUF, 63% of
> SOMAÏR).
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> The exploitation which takes place through this 'modern' form of
> colonialisation becomes even more dirty when one looks at the
circumstances
> under which this open-mine extraction of uranium takes place. The uranium
> ore is lying around in the open and the radioactive dust is spread by the
> wind, the workers have nearly no protection clothing and are underpaid
(but
> it is better than no job at all.). And what about the enourmous amounts of
> waste which are produced which are still very radioactive and are poluting
> the environment? They just remain there, they don't seem to be a problem
for
> us here in France and Europe. It is also more easy for the Cogema to get
> away with the radioactive polution problem compared to what they caused in
> France itself. In the case of the polution around the mines in the
> department of Haute Vienne Cogema keeps claiming that the raditions
> originates from the natural back ground.
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> Cogema tries to hide these fact from the publicity. The areas of the mines
> are closed of in military way, and on the other hand they try to 'sell'
> their presence by explaining that they are bringing development to these
> countries in the form of health care and education programms.
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> And why does Cogema do all of this? It is bussiness, produce where the
cost
> are as low as possible and the profits maximal, and of course to produce
> electricity for our wealth.
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> Source + more info :: www.antenna.nl/wise | www.francenuc.fr |
> www.anti-atom.de
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