Petition against uranium mining in Kuusamo, Finland


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2014-03-04 14:32

Our community in Orkney, Scotland resisted this menace.It is not a clean operation; the ore has to be reduced using acids and solvents, there is radioactive dust that blows over the land, the tailings ponds break and release the acids and ore dust into the rivers and lakes and ground water, polluting the drinking water,the water for stock and for fish.
builders have been known to use the mining tailings to make concrete blocks and then you have a problem of radon gas in schools, domestic houses, offices and hospitals. radon gas, emitted from the ore, is radioactive and decays to a solid particle in the lungs ie polonium and this causes lung cancer.