{"id":714,"date":"2023-07-23T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccnr.thedev.ca\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2024-02-04T05:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T05:40:46","slug":"uranium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/uranium\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2209 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Uranium-Header-2.png\" alt=\"Uranium Header\" width=\"1964\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: auto; width: 40%; border: 3px solid black; padding: 10px;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">The Hazards of Uranium<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 80px;\" align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium\/#PH\">Port Hope Contamination<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Uranium is the only naturally-occurring material that can be used to make an atomic bomb or to fuel a nuclear reactor. It is the key element behind all nuclear fission technology, military and civilian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jhgOWpVzJk?si=jQQLRd-WQb-U99Ra\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plutonium is a uranium derivative, created inside every nuclear reactor that is fuelled with uranium. Plutonium can also be used to make nuclear weapons or to fuel a nuclear reactor, but without uranium there would be no plutonium to begin with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following articles and audio-visual resources on uranium deal with (1) the military uses of uranium, (2) uranium as a nuclear reactor fuel, (3) radioactive wastes (tailings) left over from uranium mining, (4) the health hazards of uranium and its byproducts, (5) the politics and the business of uranium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/echoes-of-the-atomic-age\/\"><strong>Aboriginal Deaths<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0from the World&#8217;s First Uranium Mine Reported<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/declaration_WSF_e_2016.pdf\">SIGN: Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/declaration_endorsers.pdf\">Endorsers of the Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World (Aug 2016)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/nuclear-technology-a-primer\/\">Nuclear Technology: A Primer<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HGQttFLpY8E\">Uranium: Premises, Promises, Predicaments &#8211; <span style=\"color: brown;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Edwards, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">1h28m<\/span> video, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saskatoon, October 19, 2021<\/span>] <\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Report_pack_GE.pdf\">Health Implications of Uranium Fuel Fabrication [Peterborough 2020]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/GE_Supp_pack.pdf\">Protecting the Health and Safety of Canadians [Peterborough 2020]<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Peterborough_2019.pdf\">Health Problems with Uranium Fuel Pelleting (BWXT Peterborough) [Slide Show 2019]<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Correspondence_on_U_Tailings_2019.pdf\">Correspondence on the long-term hazards of uranium tailings [Denmark 2019]<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Narsaq_Edwards_2016.pdf\">Speech: The Health Dangers of Uranium Mining (Greenland; Jun 11 2016)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Narsaq_Edwards_2016_show.pdf\">Slide Show: The Health Dangers of Uranium Mining (Greenland; Jun 11 2016)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jhgOWpVzJk\">Uranium Mill Tailings: Not Just\u00a0<i>Any<\/i>\u00a0Toxic Legacy<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Edwards_Workshop_2015.pdf\">Uranium, Radioactivity &amp; Ionizing Radiation (Slideshow, Joburg S.Africa, Nov 16\/15)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/declaration_WUS_e_2015.pdf\">Declaration of the World Uranium Symposium (Quebec April 16 2015)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pm9bzcd\">Canada&#8217;s Uranium to India + World Uranium Symposium [Radio (15 min) April 16 2015]<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/CCNR_BAPE_2014.pdf\">Uranium in Quebec: Too Heavy A Price To Pay? (Brief to Uranium Inquiry, Oct 30 2014)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Wendake.pdf\">Uranium \u2013 Its Uses and Dangers (Sept 25 2014)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/resolution_2p_2013.pdf\">Resolution for a Permanent Moratorium on Uranium Mining in Quebec (February 2013)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/GE_Critique_EIS.pdf\">CCNR Critique of the Matoush Uranium Exploration Project&#8217;s EIS (November 23 2010)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Secret_Life_of_the_Atom.pdf\">The Secret Life of the Atom: An Overview<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6QP2K_GyBSM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">The Radioactive Legacy of the Nuclear Age [slide show (1 hr) 2007]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rbcc.ca\/Gordon-Edwards-videos.shtml\">Nuclear Power: Hope or Hoax? [9-part You-tube slide show (90 min) 2008]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Vakil_Harvey_letter_2010.pdf\">An Open Letter to Nunavut Leaders: Health Implications (Vakil &amp; Harvey 2010)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Baker_Lake_summary.pdf\">Summary of Testimony to the Nunavut Planning Commission (Edwards 2007\/06\/06)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ccnr.org\/current_09.mp3\">&#8220;Wanted: A Home for Canada&#8217;s Nuclear Waste\u00a0<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/wanted-an-ethical-stance-against-depleted-uranium-weapons\/\">Ethical Problems Concerning the Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons (Jan &#8217;01)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/depleted-uranium-commercial-dross-or-military-gold\/\">Depleted Uranium &#8212; Commercial Dross or Military Gold? (photo)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/here-are-the-radioactive-byproducts-of-depleted-uranium-uranium-238\/\">What are the Radioactive Byproducts of Uranium-238? (chart)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/alpha-rays-from-a-radioactive-particle-in-lung-tissue\/\">What Does Alpha Radiation Look Like? (photo + closeup)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/precautions-needed-in-handling-radioactive-ores\/\">Health Warning Related to Handling Radioactive Ores (Ottawa &#8217;31\/32)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/gulf-war-veterans-and-depleted-uranium\/\">Gulf War Veterans and Depleted Uranium (Bertell 99\/05)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/testimony-of-dr-rosalie-bertell\/\">U.S. Senate testimony affecting atomic veterans (Bertell 98\/04)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/gulf-war-syndrome-depleted-uranium-and-the-dangers-of-low-level-radiation\/\">Gulf War Syndrome and Depleted Uranium: Rosalie Bertell<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium\/a-discussion-guide\/\">Uranium : A Discussion Guide &#8212;\u00a0<i>Questions &amp; Answers<\/i><\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium-known-facts-and-hidden-dangers\/\">Uranium: Known Facts and Hidden Dangers (Salzburg address)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium-the-deadliest-metal\/\">Uranium: The Deadliest Metal &#8212; background article (Edwards 92)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/use-of-canadian-uranium-in-the-worlds-first-atomic-bombs\/\">The Use of Canadian Uranium in the First Atomic Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts (&#8217;98)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/how-uranium-from-great-bear-lake-ended-up-in-a-bombs\/\">How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in A-Bombs: A Chronology (&#8217;98)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/the-dene-people-of-great-bear-lake-call-for-a-federal-response-to-uranium-deaths-in-deline\/\">Dene of Great Bear Lake Demand Federal Action on Uranium Deaths<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/findings-on-uranium-tailings-verbatim-quotations-from-official-documents\/\">Findings on Uranium Tailings &#8212; from Official Documents<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/limitations-of-the-icrp-recommendations-for-worker-and-public-protection-from-ionizing-radiation\/\">Critique of ICRP Radiation Standards: Rosalie Bertell<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/health-dangers-of-uranium-mining-and-jurisdictional-questions\/\">Health Dangers of Uranium Mining: B.C. Medical Association (&#8217;80)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/estimating-lung-cancers\/\">Estimating Lung Cancers from Permitted Radon Exposures (Edwards\/78)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/risk-estimates-for-the-health-effects-of-alpha-radiation\/\">Risk Estimates for Health Effects of Alpha Radiation (Thomas\/81)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/map-of-uranium-mining-activities-in-canada\/\">Map of Uranium Mining Activities in Canada<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium-tailings-at-elliot-lake-ontario\/\">Uranium Tailings at Elliot Lake (photo)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/introducing-the-radon-progeny-formerly-called-radon-daughters\/\">What are radon progeny (formerly called radon daughters) ? (chart)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/uranium-refinery-at-blind-river-ontario\/\">Uranium Refinery at Blind River, Ontario (photo)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/a-scale-model-of-the-blind-river-uranium-refinery\/\">A Scale Model of the Blind River Refinery (photo)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/inside-the-blind-river-uranium-refinery\/\">Inside the Blind River Refinery (photo)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/townsite-of-port-radium-in-the-1930s\/\">Port Radium, NWT, before the discovery of nuclear fission (1930s)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/first-shipment-of-radium-concentrates-from-port-radium\/\">The first shipment of radium concentrates from Great Bear Lake (1931)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"PH\"><\/a>Port Hope Contamination<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a name=\"PH\"><\/a>[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Contamination_History_2021.pdf\">Port Hope &#8211; Early History of Contamination (Edwards, January, 2021)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/PHCHCC_A-G_Petition_Jan_8_2008.pdf\">Petition to the Auditor General re Health in Port Hope (PHCHCC, Jan 8, 2008)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Mortality_Study_Mintz_Critique.pdf\">Port Hope Mortality Study \u2013 A Critique [draft version] (Eric Mintz, 2004)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Cancer_Morbidity_Study_Mintz_Critique_2000.pdf\">Port Hope Cancer Morbidity Study \u2013 A Critique (Eric Mintz, 2000)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/Port_Hope_Health_Study_1984.pdf\">Health Effects of Radiation Contamination in Port Hope (Queen&#8217;s U Study, 1984)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/PHCHCC_A-G_Petition_Jan_8_2008.pdf\">Petition to the Auditor General re Health in Port Hope (PHCHCC, Jan 8, 2008)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccnr.org\/PHCHCC_CNSC_SEU_Oct_19_2007.pdf\">Critique of EA on Slightly Enriched Uranium at Port Hope (PHCHCC, Oct 19, 2008)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/use-of-canadian-uranium-in-the-worlds-first-atomic-bombs\/\">The Use of Canadian Uranium in the First Atomic Bombs: Verbatim Excerpts (&#8217;98)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/how-uranium-from-great-bear-lake-ended-up-in-a-bombs\/\">How Uranium from Great Bear Lake Ended Up in A-Bombs: A Chronology (&#8217;98)<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hazards of Uranium Port Hope Contamination &nbsp; Uranium is the only naturally-occurring material that can be used to make an atomic bomb or to fuel a nuclear reactor. It is the key element behind all nuclear fission technology, military and civilian. Plutonium is a uranium derivative, created inside every nuclear reactor that is fuelled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/uranium\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uranium<\/span> Lire la suite\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2882,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}