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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Health or Doubtful Wealth ?


Is uranium actually dangerous for health? Well, if you are there in Russia in comfortable head-office of the mining company and mine is here in Armenia then, you can relax, your health is not endangered.

Now, the bad news: According to US Environmental Protection Agency: ''The greatest health risk from large intakes of uranium is toxic damage to the kidneys, because, uranium is not only weakly radioactive but also toxic. Uranium exposure, because of radioactivity of the metal, increases risk of getting a cancer. Since, uranium tends to concentrate in specific locations in the body, risk of cancer of the bone, liver cancer, and blood diseases (such as leukemia) are increasing. Inhaled uranium increases the risk of lung cancer''.


What happens during and after mining? The waste, left behind as the result of digging up and crushing the rock, is a radioactive dust, called uranium tailing. According to Marie Curie "85 percent of the radioactivity in the ore remains behind in that crushed rock". Moreover, after it has taken the form of a dust, it's free to travel with the wind or underground waters. And guess who is going to be visited with this dust first ?

Armenia is relatively small country, how rational is it to take a risk of letting in such a "visitor" ?

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