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Jadugora Mine is the first uranium mine in India where mining operations began in 1967. |
It’s the sick and dying children that have drawn the most concern. During 2007, the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development, an affiliate of Nobel-winning, Massachusetts-based International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, canvassed 2,118 households in five villages within 1.5 miles of the mines. The surveys found mothers there reporting congenital deformities more than 80 percent higher than the rates of mothers in villages just 20 miles from the mines. The rate of child deaths reported from such abnormalities was more than five times as high. Uranium Corp. has dismissed the findings as the biased work of “antinuclear groups.”
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Child from Jadugora, victim of radiation sickness |
Children are most often the primary victims of environmental pollution.
What’s Killing the Children in Jadugora, India?
By Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tom Lasseter, bloomberg.com, 9 July 2014
By Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Tom Lasseter, bloomberg.com, 9 July 2014
On a sun-seared afternoon, Sanjay Gope crawls across a dusty courtyard of the low-slung, mud-walled house he shares with 10 members of his family. Stacks of cow dung dry in the heat and chickens rest in the shade.