Uranium Mining and the Governor’s Race Appomattox News By Jack Dunavant 19 October 2009 The Richmond Times-Dispatch published a letter last month titled “Mined Uranium Is Harmless Mineral” written by William Schmidt a long-time power company employee.
We at SCC [Southside Concerned Citizens] have found that Schmidt’s half truths and distortions are typical of many paid nuclear power proponents. Schmidt spoke about weeks of exposure, a U. N. study showing no increased risk of lung cancer in uranium miners, and alpha radiation being harmless. ……………… Alpha radiation is dangerous to life when it is inhaled or ingested!Well, Duh! Guess what Uranium mining does? It blasts and crushes solid bedrock into a fine powdery state. In which case, the problems become three-fold:
How can the dust be confined to the site during the 40 year mining period?
How can a mountain of toxic, radioactive, powdery waste 200ft. tall by 400ft. wide and 14.2 miles long be kept out of our streams?
How can millions of cubic feet of deadly radon gas be confined to the site?
The answer to each of the three questions is the same: it cannot be done.
Uranium Mining and the Governor’s Race
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