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...Greenlanders, mostly of Eskimo descent and a few colonial Danes, live on the coastal fringes by hunting seals, fishing and shrimping, herding reindeer, or raising sheep. Uranium has been found in the south, and zinc is being mined at a site 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle. But Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt, 40, a Lutheran pastor turned politician, says that sealing and fishing will remain the core of Greenland's economy. Says he: "We must look to the sea more than the land for our salvation...
...their buyer, Iraq, and were due to be shipped only three days later. The reactor components were 60% destroyed; the damage was estimated at $23 million. French officials estimated that delivery would be delayed for two years, which would also postpone the shipment of 65 kilograms of enriched uranium fuel that France had agreed to supply along with the reactor. That is enough uranium to build at least half a dozen "dirty" atomic bombs of Hiroshima force. The saboteurs-police later estimated that three men were involved-knew their mission as well as they knew their way around the plant...
Thanks to the substantial two-year delay in furnishing the reactor and its uranium, Giscard expects that by the new delivery date his nation's scientists will have perfected a nuclear fuel called "caramel," composed of 7%-enriched uranium that is unsuitable for making bombs. End result: lucrative contract is saved, international reputation is salvaged, Iraqis are appeased, if not pleased...
...there is cause for hope. One good tiding comes from the "primitive" peoples of the world, who, it seems, are bent on saving us from ourselves. In the U.S.. Native Americans own most of the land under which lies our uranium supplies, essential to the nuclear fuel cycle, and Indians are unwilling to let the federal government go on mining the stuff. The government of course, is looking for a way around the rules. The Australian aborigines also find themselves sitting on much of Australia's potential uranium supply. Like the Native Americans, they consider these uranium mountains sacred...
This generation will witness the last performance of an old script. Land used for uranium mining can never again be used for animals, crops or people. The nuclear radiation released at the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle destroys all that surrounds it. "Down the road," it may bring radiation and nuclear weapons factories to urban centers worldwide. The end result--plutonium with a half-life of 24,000 years...