The dangers of uranium
Comments: Dr. CLOUGH is a real medical doctor and lives among sick people living near uranium mining and milling. The federal govt has known forever that uranium mining and milling kills but the nukes is an evil bunch, greed is their game, heck with people's lives. Rockit1 is one of the evil ones@! Remember being near or around uranium mining makes changes people's DNA, it is scary!
By The Editorial Board Comments: Dr. CLOUGH is a real medical doctor and lives among sick people living near uranium mining and milling. The federal govt has known forever that uranium mining and milling kills but the nukes is an evil bunch, greed is their game, heck with people's lives. Rockit1 is one of the evil ones@! Remember being near or around uranium mining makes changes people's DNA, it is scary!
Published: April 19, 2011
To the editor:
Those who support the mining of uranium in Virginia appear not to know that uranium in the United States continues to kill people in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Prior to the opening of uranium mines, the Navajo were considered “resistant” to cancer. However, 89 percent of Navajo miners still working at the Shiprock mine in 1970 had died of cancer by 2000.
Uranium poisons the land and the water forever. Young Navajo today are dying of leukemia and reproductive cancer from radioactive pollution. Traditional people can no longer use their springs to water their livestock and corn. A plume of contamination is moving from a tailings heap into the springs of the traditional Hopi village of Moenkopi.
Uranium is a dangerous source of energy. Millions in Japan wonder how many generations will suffer from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Millions live with the aftermath of Chernobyl. The U.S. was lucky with Three Mile Island. No one is immune to human error. Japanese officials admit to cutting corners to increase profit: no one is safe from high level corruption.
Uranium remains so deadly after its brief service — approximately three years — that what is not reprocessed must be stored safely for 10,000 years. Worldwide, there are no operative permanent storage sites. Temporary storage is expensive: canisters of illegally dumped nuclear waste are washing up on Somali shores, and with them reports of increased sickness and death.
There is no evidence that modern techniques will prevent the dangers of dust, water pollution, terrorism or long-term storage.
ALLISON CLOUGH M.D., M.P.H.
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Posted by kallis on April 19, 2011 - 3:39 p.m.
Cmon rockit! They mined in Flagstaff, Az. How many mines have you lived near? Sounds like an MD/MPH has a bit more education than a gold-digger like you.
Posted by Rockit1 on April 19, 2011 - 3:03 p.m.
A poster from Flagstaff Arizona. Gee, I wonder if this person's opinion is in any way prejudiced against uranium mining. Talk about not even having a hidden agenda!
Seems to me when some hysterical person rights in quoting some nonsense about 89% of people dying, the R&B ought to at least require them to source their material. Here, I guess we're supposed to just take this clown's word for it.
Posted by Rockit1 on April 19, 2011 - 3:11 p.m.
Sorry 'bout that. Meant to say a hysterical person "writes", not "rights". Guess I was thinking of my disgust at having some nobody from Flagstaff AZ honestly believe they had some type of "right" to inject their obviously prejudiced (and wrong) opinion into our business here.
Posted by rbenson on April 19, 2011 - 7:29 p.m.
Rockit1,
You do realize the Danville Register & Bee has published the guest opinions of at least five -- if not more -- out-of-town, pro-nuclear writers in recent years? We've published those pieces even when most of them have had little to say about the local issues other than they support nuclear power and, oh, by the way, uranium mining is safe, so go ahead and do it.
If this letter offends you, perhaps we could limit comment on this issue to anyone who lives near a Danville Register & Bee carrier route or yellow vending box.
Cordially,
Robert Benson
Editor
Danville Register & Bee
Posted by justice4us2011 on April 19, 2011 - 3:01 p.m.
Many people will think the Japanese disaster will make a moot point about Uranium Mining in our community ... like Nuclear Plants will now die out and the Uranium won't be mined. When China announced it's intention to build 30 Nuclear Plants the price of Uranium shot from $10 a pound to a high of $146. It has now settled in at a mere 5x price of $50.
If you had Millions of Dollars on your property would you give it up? Would you dig it up and spread the waste no matter what the cost to the community? Yes, human being, you would give it up. But they won't. And floods will come. And my grandkids will drink the toxic water. And those landowners will have a well far from the polluted water table. You betcha.
Read more:
http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2011/apr/19/dangers-uranium-ar-981329/
