NH #263: Oh, Canada! Pt. 2 - Dr. Gordon Edwards on Int'l Uranium Mining Ban

BREAKING:  Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host Libbe HaLevy will be interviewed by John B. Wells for Caravan to Midnight, airing Friday, July 8, 2016, available for download thereafter for a small fee.

This Week’s Featured Interview:

Dr. Gordon Edwards is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and one of Canada‘s best known independent experts on nuclear technology. Part 1 of our monumental interview posted on Nuclear Hotseat #259 on June 7, 2016.   Today, in Part 2, Dr. Edwards continues the saga of how Canada has provided mined uranium to the world, how it figured prominently if not predominantly in the development of India’s nuclear bomb, and the steps being taken to institute an international ban on uranium mining.

 

LINKS to Dr. Edwards’ materials mentioned on the show:

• Speech in Greenland:  http://ccnr.org/Narsaq_Edwards_2016.pdf
• Powerpoint used in Greenland:  http://ccnr.org/Narsaq_Edwards_2016_show.pdf
• Danish interview on medical aspects of uranium mining
• Danish interview on remediation of a uranium mining site in Saskatchewan

NOTE:  Featured image is of the signing of the Declaration of the World Uranium Symposium calling for an International Moratorium on Uranium Mining.

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