The Human Toll from India's Uranium

Researchers believe radiation is behind the human and environmental catastrophe.

Birth defect in Jadugoda. Courtesy: Nuclear and Radiation Disaster - no2nuclearpower.blogspot.in

(CHENNAI, India) - Jadugoda, located in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand, is the chief source of Uranium in India, providing fuel for the nuclear reactors. However, the uranium comes at a colossal human cost.

In this case, those paying the price are adivasis (indigenous population), the Santhal, Munda and Ho tribes.

Due to the proximity of the mine, a large number of villagers suffer from cancer, skin diseases, physical deformities, blindness, brain damage, disruption of menstrual cycle or loss of fertility.

Villagers, evicted from their lands, work as miners and are exposed to a heavy dose of radiation.

Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL), responsible for operating the mine refutes the allegations and refuses to acknowledge the problems.

However, independent researchers believe that it is difficult to conceive of any reason, other than radiation, for the human and environmental catastrophe.

The Website http://www.jadugoda.net/reports/anumukti.pdf has been created to provide a window to outside world to Jadugoda and its problems, a creation of our own. In the hope that those responsible for creating problems can also work towards addressing them.

• Here is the full report: http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/anumukti.pdf
• Investigation conducted by Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University: The investigation on radioactive contamination around Jadugoda uranium mine
• Here is another report with many images: >The unsafe mining of uranium has resulted in excessive radiation leading to genetic mutation and slow death

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