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* [http://www.nejtilluranbrytning.nu/ Swedish Anti Uranium Network] <small><small>Swedish</small></small> | * [http://www.nejtilluranbrytning.nu/ Swedish Anti Uranium Network] <small><small>Swedish</small></small> | ||
* [http://movimento-uranio-nao.blogspot.com/ Movimento Não a Opção Nuclear] <small><small>Portuguese</small></small> | * [http://movimento-uranio-nao.blogspot.com/ Movimento Não a Opção Nuclear] <small><small>Portuguese</small></small> | ||
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* [http://nukingtheclimate.com/index.php/lang/en Nuking The Climate] ''- Movie about uranium mining'' <small><small>English/German</small></small> | * [http://nukingtheclimate.com/index.php/lang/en Nuking The Climate] ''- Movie about uranium mining'' <small><small>English/German</small></small> | ||
* [http://www.wise-uranium.org/slide.html Uranium Mining "Slide Talk"] ''- online slideshow presentation'' <small><small>English</small></small> | * [http://www.wise-uranium.org/slide.html Uranium Mining "Slide Talk"] ''- online slideshow presentation'' <small><small>English</small></small> | ||
| + | * [http://www.roxstop-action.org/Booklet_16pp.pdf Roxstop Action Kit] ''-Information about uranium mining, the Olympic Dam mine in Australia and how to become active against it'' <small><small>English</small></small> | ||
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Uranium Reserves
The world's biggest uranium reserves are currently located in Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Niger, Namibia, and Uzbekistan.[1]
In Europe today no uranium is mined apart from small amounts in the Czech Republic and Romania.[1]
Since the world market price of uranium oxide (U3O8) has been tripled between 2000 and 2003 to 66 EUR per kilogram a new run to exploit even poor uranium reserves has been started[2]. Additionally according to the IAEA the demand for uranium is much higher than the uranium mined worldwide since many years. By now this demand could be substituted by the old nuclear weapon's fission materials, but this "resource" will be mostly exploited soon.
Closed Uranium Mines
- Former GDR: Wismut[3]
- was the 3rd biggest uranium producer in the world until 1990[1]
- in operation: 1946-1990
- underground and open cast mining of uranium in former GDR
- 1,200 million tons extracted mineral mass
- 200 million tons processed
- 1,000 million tons tailings
- about 500,000 persons occupied
- 15,000 accepted cases of silicosis (German: "Staublunge")
- 5,600 accepted cases of lung cancer
- reclamation costs: 7.5 billion EUR (publically paied)
- tailings have been covered, mines filled
- Former FRG: Menzenschwand[1]
- located in the Schwarzwald in Western Germany - was a very small uranium mine until 1991
- France:[1]
- 210 uranium mines have been closed until 2001
- Portugal:[4]
- 1909 the first licence for uranium mining was granted; after World War II the Portuguese uranium oxide was delivered as well to the British as to the US nuclear industry
- by 1991 62 uranium mines have been exploited in Portugal
- Urgeiriça (near Viseu): closed in 1991
Proposed Uranium Mines
- Portugal[4]:
- Nisa: near to the 3,600 inhabitants city the biggest not yet exploited uranium resource is situated; it had already been discovered in 1959; about six million tons of uranium ore can be found here - enough to produce some 650 tons of uranium oxide
Information
- WISE Uranium Project - WISE Uranium Project is part of World Information Service on Energy. It covers the health and environmental impacts of nuclear fuel production
- uranium network English/German
- Uranium Watch - a Urah / USA based information service on Uranium
Local Resistance
- Ranua Rescue project Finnish
- Swedish Anti Uranium Network Swedish
- Movimento Não a Opção Nuclear Portuguese
- Roxstop Action against the Olympic Dam mine in Australia English
Materials
- Der schmutzige Atombrennstoff German
- Nuking The Climate - Movie about uranium mining English/German
- Uranium Mining "Slide Talk" - online slideshow presentation English
- Roxstop Action Kit -Information about uranium mining, the Olympic Dam mine in Australia and how to become active against it English
Action
Uranium Mining Images
Uranium Mining in Australia
- Sample gallery
Olympic Dam Mine
- Sample gallery
Container with Yellow Cake (Uraniumoxide)
http://strahlendesklima.de
Conveyor belt
http://strahlendesklima.de
Truck driving into the uranium mine
http://strahlendesklima.de
Winding tower
http://strahlendesklima.de
Winding tower
http://strahlendesklima.de
Conveyor belt
http://strahlendesklima.de
Winding tower
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution signs
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign + workers
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear worker
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution signs on containers
http://strahlendesklima.de
Containers with Yellow Cake
http://strahlendesklima.de
Conveyor belt
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear workers
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Tailing Ponds with nuclear waste
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Ranger Mine
- Sample gallery
Open pit mine
http://strahlendesklima.de
Truck probably with uranium ore
http://strahlendesklima.de
Conveyor belt
http://strahlendesklima.de
Water supply for the uranium mine
http://strahlendesklima.de
Water pipeline for the uranium mine
http://strahlendesklima.de
Uranium truck
http://strahlendesklima.de
Old sign with information for emergency cases (contamination of people)
http://strahlendesklima.de
Nuclear caution sign
http://strahlendesklima.de
Water supply for the uranium mine
http://strahlendesklima.de
Uranium Mining in India
- Sample gallery
Radioactive water flowing out through the pipes on the lower part of the dammed pond
Tailing pond photographed from the outside
Uranium Companies
Finde more articles about Uranium on the Nuclear Heritage Network webpage.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 .ausgestrahlt: Der schmutzige Atom-Brennstoff. Fragen und Antworten zur Herkunft des Urans. Mai 2009
http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/luki/der-schmutzige-atombrennstoff.pdf - ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedNorbertSuchanek - ↑ Source: lecture "Health effects of uranium mining workers and residents, the experience in Germany" of Prof. Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake at the expert hearing on uranium effects in Ranua on November 7th, 2009
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Norbert Suchanek: Kein Uranbergbau im Alentejo - Portugals radioaktives Erbe (November 2009)
