Well, I'm an Eastern Washington baby, born and raised in the downwind nuclear shadow of Hanford, so this kind of stuff hits especially close to home. If you think humans only suffer injury or death when a plant melts down or a bomb goes boom, think again. Isn't reproduction a freedom and a right to be protected at all costs? Shouldn't the health risks to pregnant women and small children, when coupled with the environmental costs and wreckage, be enough to convince people that nuclear energy is not even remotely safe and we should perhaps find better ways of reducing energy consumption rather than increasing energy production? Anyway, here's a bunch of terrible news on uranium mining in other countries and on Native American reservations, depleted uranium, radioactive breast milk, birth defects in infants due to radiation sickness acquired by their mother from working in nuclear power plants, Hanford's Environmental Impact Statement ... you know, some of that dark underbelly we don't often hear about unless we go looking.
Miscarriage, stillbirths after mining
Genetic Effects and Birth Defects from Radiation Exposure - Hanford Health Information Network
Campaign Against Depleted Uranium
Uranium Mining in Utah
History of Uranium in Utah
Gulf War Syndrome, Depleted Uranium And The Dangers Of Low-Level Radiation
The High Cost of Uranium in Navajo Land
Claims by uranium companies in the United States have soared
Indigeneous Peoples Call for Global Ban on Uranium Mining
Wikipedia - Uranium Mining
New Uranium Mining Projects in the USA
Libertarian Socialist Alliance for Self Managed Energy Systems
Australian Message Board on uranium mining and a nuclear waste dump
Online Book on Uranium Mining in Saskatchewan
Industries that are Harmful to Women
Fighting breast cancer: A Native woman's journal
Miners' health may be the cost of a nuclear future
Cancer mortality in a Texas county with prior uranium mining and milling activities, 1950–2001
India's Uranium Nightmare
Hanford Comprehensive Land-Use Plan
Environmental Impact Statements
September 1999
Uranium mining left a legacy of death
Manuel Pino at THE WORLD URANIUM HEARING, SALZBURG 1992
Uranium Mining and the Laguna People
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