Radiation level high at Gabon uranium mine (France mining in Africa)

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WATCHDOG WARNS:Radiation level high at Gabon uranium mine.

A former uranium mine at Mounana in southeast Gabon is putting out radiation levels markedly higher than normal, a French association said.The Newest Articles Where will Bandic be distributing the gifts? See his schedule here..

LIBREVILLE, December 9, 2009 (AFP) - A former uranium mine at Mounana in southeast Gabon is putting out radiation levels "markedly higher than normal," a French association said in a report Wednesday.

The radiation levels at the mine, run for 40 years by a subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva, are "in numerous areas accessible to the public, markedly higher than normal. Some values at ground level are between twice and 50 times higher."

The report came from the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD), which surveyed the Mounama site last May, and found millions of tonnes of radioactive material dumped in water or the forest.

The association said that the Uranium Mining Company of Franceville (COMUF), which operated the mine between 1958 and 1999, had "produced 7.5 million tonnes of radioactive mud, of which more than two million tonnes were dumped" in a river.

"The measurements taken in 2009 also confirm that the homes of the managers and the workers of COMUF were constructed with radioactive materials. People were thus subjected without knowing it to totally unjustified doses of radiation."

Since 2007, the population of Mounana has been at odds with COMUF and Areva over radioactive waste and non-governmental organisations have become involved in the issue.

In June, Areva announced that it would set up a health safety observatory around sites in Gabon and Niger in collaboration with the French NGOs Sherpa and Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).
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