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Radiating Africa. The menace of Uranium Mining. case studies on Cameroon, Mali and Tanzania (2014)

Auteur	WISE International, U.Lerche
Datum	2014
Classificatie	6.01.2.20/77 (URANIUM - WINNING/VOORRAAD/PRIJS)
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1 INTRODUCTION

More and more uranium -the fuel for nuclear power plants- comes from Africa. 
In Europe, uranium miningis made very difficult, mainly due to legislation. Also 
countries as Canada and Australia face an increasingpressure to comply with 
stricter environmental and social standards. That is understandable as uranium 
mining is an environmentally highly hazardous activity and can lead to social 
injustice. African countries as Niger and South Africa already deliver uranium to 
the world market. Cameroon, Mali, Tanzania and other countries are now facing 
the menace of uranium mining.

The disasters of the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear power stations are forever 
in the collective memory of human kind. But where does the nuclear fuel chain 
actually start? And which impact does it have on countries in Africa and on other 
continents? Exploration and exploitation of uranium is the starting point of the 
nuclear fuel chain. Uranium mining has a tremendous impact on environment and 
society in the respective regions. But do we actually know where the respectively 
extracted uranium has its origin and which players are involved in the whole 
nuclear fuel chain? Who has and who takes responsibility in e.g. Europe? Is 
there actually transparency in the supply chain?

This report forms an important part of the aforementioned project. lt combines 
the Case Studies of each of the African project partner countries. Each African 
project partner from Cameroon, Mali and Tanzania prepared a Case Study on the 
situation in the respective country. This report combines all three Case Studies 
presenting the situation of some of the African countries facing potential uranium 
mining from different perspectives and yet very similar. The project aims to 
enhance the capacity building and cooperative learning of the involved project 
partner organizations, to stimulate the interaction between the project partners 
as well as raising awareness for more transparency in the fuel chain and 
demanding the corresponding stakeholders to take responsibility.

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