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The radioactive risk society
On April 10, 2007, a
uranium
pipeline burst in Jaduguda, causing a spill of the fuel that keeps our
nuclear
energy schemes running. Further, adds Half Life, a report on
radioactivity in
India by environmental group Toxic Links, on August 16, 2008,
another uranium
pipe burst, spewing houses near the village of Dungridih in Jaduguda
with uranium
waste. The deadly waste circled and flowed into five houses. Impacts on
human
life are unknown. But while Jaduguda is
sadly punished for its proximity to uranium mining and transportation,
it is
now clear that it is not just places that surround (and feed) our
nuclear
energy production that are at risk from exposure to radioactive
material.
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