Riippumaton radioaktiivisuuden tutkimuskeskus CRIIRAD (Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity) on mitannut normaalia huomattavasti korkeampia säteilylukemia AREVA-ydinvoimayhtiön entisen kaivoksen ympäristössä Mounanassa, Gabonissa. Kaivoksen työntekijöiden ja päällystön asuntoja on rakennettu radioaktiivisesta materiaalista. Alempana uutinen kokonaisuudessaan englanniksi.
Linkki ranskankieliselle uutissivustolle:
http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier_09/areva/denonciation.html
Marraskuussa 2009 Greenpeace mittasi luonnon taustasäteilyn yli 500-kertaisesti ylittäviä säteilylukemia niinikään AREVAn kaivoskylässä Nigerissä:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/luonto_ja_ymparisto/2009/11/greenpeace_arevan_kaivoskyla_nigerissa_sateilee_1194965.html
Lisää AREVAn sekoiluista Suomessa ja Ranskassa lokakuun blogikirjoituksissamme.
Published: December 09, 2009 14:38h
LIBREVILLE,
December 9, 2009 (AFP) - A former uranium mine at Mounana in southeast
Gabon is putting out radiation levels "markedly higher than normal," a
French association said in a report Wednesday.
The radiation levels at the mine, run for 40 years by a
subsidiary of the French nuclear giant Areva, are "in numerous areas
accessible to the public, markedly higher than normal. Some values at ground
level are between twice and 50 times
higher."
The report came from the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity (CRIIRAD), which surveyed the Mounama site last May, and found
millions of tonnes of radioactive material dumped in water or the forest.
The association said that the Uranium Mining Company of Franceville (COMUF), which operated the mine between 1958 and 1999, had "produced 7.5 million tonnes
of radioactive mud, of which more than two million tonnes were dumped" in
a river.
"Part of this radioactive waste is in the open in the nearby forest," said the CRIIRAD, which is based in Valence in southeast France .
"The measurements taken in 2009 also confirm that the homes of the managers
and the workers of COMUF were constructed with radioactive materials. People
were thus subjected without knowing it to totally unjustified doses of
radiation."
Since 2007, the population of Mounana has been at odds with COMUF and Areva over radioactive waste and non-governmental organisations have become involved in the issue.
In June, Areva announced that it would set up a health safety
observatory around sites in Gabon and Niger
in collaboration with the French NGOs Sherpa and Medecins du Monde (Doctors of
the World).
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