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The power of blogging

…or the nuclear industry and my part in its downfall.

There’s a big story breaking at Greenpeace today. Despite assurances from the nuclear industry that things had been cleaned up, Greenpeace has found that the villages near the uranium mines in Niger are still contaminated with radiation…

I’m extremely pleased to say that I played a small part in helping bring the scandal to light. Back in January I wrote a rather strident post for Greenpeace’s Nuclear Reaction blog about just what the French nuclear company AREVA had been getting up to at its uranium mines in Niger.

AREVA weren’t very happy about that and in their response they invited Greenpeace to go to Niger and see what was going on for themselves. The Greenpeace nuclear campaign accepted the invitation and this month, after much hard work and planning, sent a team to Niger. And they certainly did see for themselves… AREVA nuclear scandal: Greenpeace finds radiation on the streets of Niger.


Posted on November 26th, 2009 at 12:27pm under Elsewhere, Human rights, Nuclear: power and weapons

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• 9 Comments

9 Comments

  1. Aaron (36 comments.) on 26.11.2009 at 16:17 Permalink | Reply

    Well, Just, what # reason is that then?

    1. sim-o (92 comments.) on 27.11.2009 at 01:21 Permalink | Reply

      exactly.

      1. Tim Ireland (3 comments.) on 27.11.2009 at 17:51 Permalink | Reply

        Yes indeed.

  2. k on 27.11.2009 at 11:51 Permalink | Reply

    It’s disgraceful that the Nigerien government is willing to endanger its citizens like this. They were supposed to have checked that Areva’s cleanup was complete and they failed utterly. Shame on them!

    …I’m sure you meant to write that too.

  3. Clive (41 comments.) on 27.11.2009 at 14:06 Permalink | Reply

    Hopefully that’s reason #63.

  4. BenSix (3 comments.) on 27.11.2009 at 16:02 Permalink | Reply

    Fine, fine work.

    *Applauds*

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  6. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (228 comments.) on 29.11.2009 at 19:36 Permalink | Reply

    *standing ovation*

  7. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (228 comments.) on 24.12.2009 at 10:34 Permalink | Reply

    PS:

    Merry bloody Christmas to you Justin.

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