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@®9 Unclear Age Unclear DON’T SELL worldwide glut and | comes from re-analysis since the early 1970's. URANIUM probably the lowest of data collected by The report, by a joint STOCKPILE prices on record. Jacques Cousteau working party of the SAYS FRIENDS following an explosion at National Radiological Pegasus Networks Moruroa in 1987. Two of | Protection Board and the OF THE EARTH the samples taken Royal College of FoE has condemned ; y showed, the presence of Radiologists, also notes moves to sell off the 4 cesium-134, a radio- that British doctors use Australian Government NUCLEARTEST . active isotope with a half | X-rays only about half as uranium stockpile for SPANS Information life of two years. .. frequently as their $50 million.” Sanice on Nuclear In Auckland, Green- | counterparts in the US According to FoE’s Testing reports that’. | Peace spokesperson and France. The Uranium researcher, China tested a 50-200. - Stephanie Mills said Department of Health John Hallam: “Moves to | Kts nuclear bomb at Lop today that “the burden of | said it did not want to sell off the stockpile in Nor on 16 August 1990. proof now rests clearly comment until the report the near future make no China have con- with the French, These had been published. commercial sense. While | ducted two tests this findings contradict *Patient Dose Reduction the spot-price has risen year, France four and French claims that the in Diagnostic Radiology, atoll will not leak NRPB 1990 slightly in recent weeks, | the United States four. : it is far from anywhere radioactive contam- near the cost of SPANS, August 30 1990 ination for hundreds New Scientist1990 production. Australia’s > | of years.” > > =. a a 2,000 tonne stockpile will force down spot-prices SPANS, August 30 1990 again, without gaining a ANOTHER FAULTY NUCLEAR decent price for the * REPORT SAYS WEAPONS IN Government. $50 million MORUROA LEAKS EUROPE is a pittance for such a X-RAYS BLAMED quantity of uranium, and Greenpeace has called FOR CANCER Serious questions were will do nothing to solve on France to immed- DEATHS raised on Capitol Hill and Australia’s balance of iately end nuclear testing in the Bush Adminis- payment problems.” at Moruroa atoll and to Britain’s doctors could tration about US nuclear “The timing of the provide full access for an | halve the dose of X-rays | weapons safety in sale seems to have more | independent and to the population without | Europe after defective to do with the upcoming comprehensive study to | sacrificing the accuracy nuclear artillery shells ALP conference, than determine the extent of of their diagnoses, were discovered and with any realities of the environmental problems according to a recent secretly repaired. uranium market. If the at Moruroa. report*. The authors say It was feared that the government were inter- The call follows the that up to 250 deaths warheads could have ested in getting a decent | publication of another from cancer each year exploded accidentally return on the stockpile, it | scientific claim that may be caused by while stored in Europe. would wait a number of radioactivity from : unnecessary X-ray The artillery shells are years before selling it underground tests may examinations, and now being modified so off”, Hallam concluded. have already reached criticise clinicians and they will detonate only Note: The sale of this | the surface. health authorities for the after being fired in battle. stockpile would wipe out The supporting “inordinately long time” ————— the 2,000 tonne/year evidence, restated by they have taken to The Washington Post — shortfall in yellowcake US physicist and ocean- introduce dose-reducing 24 May 1990 production, resulting ina | ographer Norm Buske, equipment available DON’T SELL URANIUM ; STOCKPILE “a NEXUS 24 SAYS FRIENDS OF THE EARTH production, resulting ina