http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ceJreMrTGQ&feature=player_embedded
Comment: Virginia Uranium Inc took 14 Virginia "so call leaders" to France, hosted by Areva, to a reclaimed uranium mine in in Bessines, France, they should have went on tour of this lovely hot spot!
01/08/2011
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Locals of the Brittany region in France project fears of raising a family and living a life nearby hazardous uranium mines that possibly emit dangerous radiation levels.
Rosglas — It looks like any other another leafy woodland path in Brittany, but campaigners say ramblers on this particular trail may face levels of radiation at least 10 times higher than normal.
The path runs alongside a disused uranium mine in the hamlet of Rosglas, one of over 200 suspect sites dotted across France, this one marked with just a makeshift sign drawn up by local anti-nuclear campaigners.Rosglas — It looks like any other another leafy woodland path in Brittany, but campaigners say ramblers on this particular trail may face levels of radiation at least 10 times higher than normal.
But abandoned works like the one in Rosglas are testimony to an earlier era when France’s race to join the atomic age employed more lax standards.
“These sites were pretty much abandoned, vegetation has grown up over them, but the radiation is still there,” Chantal Cuisnier of local anti-nuclear group Sortir du Nucléaire Cornouaille told AFP.
Cuisnier’s group recently recorded levels of radiation up to 20 times above normal around the mine, which closed in the mid 1970s.
The group’s findings were validated in a report by France’s respected Independent Research and Information Commission on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD).
“Uranium mining has caused significant contamination of the environment in violation of the international principles of radio protection,” it said.
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http://simoncoss.blogspot.com/2011/05/radiation-fears-surround-frances-old.html
