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Mining Exploration Area High Risk In Nigeria


Radioactive materials in abandoned mining fields in central Nigeria’s Plateau state pose a serious health hazard to two million people, officials said Saturday.
“Around two million people now live and farm close to the mines, which means they are all at risk from the harmful effects of the radioactive emissions from the mining fields,” Plateau [...]

Rising Interest in Nuclear Power Brings New Life to Uranium Mining


Firm’s Boom Helps Namibian Town, Worries Environmentalists.
This sandy little company town, with its tree-lined streets and concrete homes set amid a vast, forbidding desert, had all the signs of terminal decline just a few years back. Both banks closed. The only gas station shut off its pumps. And employable young men, realizing the bleak future [...]