The Health Risks of Uranium Exploration and Mining in Nova S

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The Health Risks of Uranium Exploration and Mining in Nova Scotia

- Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) - June 23, 2025

EXCERPT: "URANIUM IS UNLIKE other minerals mined in Nova Scotia. It is a heavy metal that is both chemically toxic and radioactive, decaying over time to produce other materials that are even more toxic and radioactive. This includes the carcinogenic, but colourless, tasteless and odourless gas radon, emitted by uranium deposits. Radon gas can travel hundreds of kilometres in the air, emitting radioactive particles as it moves. . . . .

The Health Risks

Physicians increasingly oppose uranium mining because of its potential to cause a wide range of adverse health effects from uranium exposure.13 14

These health effects include:15

• Kidney failure16
• DNA damage
• Infertility
• Damage to the brain, lungs, liver, kidneys and bones
• Damage to the immune system
• Cancers, most commonly lung cancer, but also leukaemia and tumours of the lung, breast, thyroid, bone, digestive organs, and skin, which are linked with radiation exposure 17
• Premature aging and decreased life expectancy18 . . . . "


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“Safe Uranium Mining?” Nova Scotia Physicians Respond to Industry Claims

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) - June 23, 2025

EXCERPT: "Can uranium exploration and mining be done safely?

Mineral exploration and mining activities that disturb the land can change groundwater flow and cause f issures that mobilize uranium and release large amounts of radon.5 Radon gas can travel hundreds of kilometres in the air, emitting radioactive particles as it moves. When ingested or inhaled, these can damage DNA and human cells, potentially leading to cancer.6 T he decay chain continues to produce new radioactive products that can enter water, crops, trees, soil, animals, and humans.7

It is not possible to take uranium out of the ground without bringing to the surface other radioactive materials, including radium, a “notorious killer.” 8 Uranium mines have tended to be in remote, sparsely populated areas, often on Indigenous lands. As with other extractive industries, this has led to “sacrifice zones,” with a lack of proper health monitoring of nearby populations. As a result, often the remote populations impacted by uranium mining have not been properly studied.9 10 . . . . "

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Albert Einstein and the problem of war

October 11, 2025 - by Lawrence Wittner

EXCERPT: "In 1914, shortly after he moved to Berlin to serve as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, Einstein was horrified by the onset of World War I. “Europe, in her insanity, has started something unbelievable,” he told a friend. “In such times one realizes to what a sad species of animal one belongs.” . . . . ."

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