[ RadSafe ] RE: Follow-up: Ranger uranium company in Australia & cancer clusters among aborig

[Dan McCarn]

Hi Group:

Ranger had to stop operations sometime in the last year due to very heavy
monsoonal rains (or a tropical storm) for which they had to fill their pit.
I believe that Ranger has a "zero discharge" permit that does not allow them
to discharge any water (regardless of R/N concentrations) offsite.  They
have to "evaporate" all water on site.  At least that is my recollection...

http://www.stockinterview.com/News/03092007/Ranger-Flooded-ERA.html

Since they produce 10% of the world's reactor-related demand, that caused a
price bump in the market.

So the leak could have been a rain-water discharge, or concern about ANY
discharge from their property.

Dan ii

Dan W McCarn, Geologist
Albuquerque & Houston



On 11/30/07, John R Johnson <idias at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> Bjorn
>
> The "leak" could be Ra-226 and its progeny.
>
> John
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bjorn Cedervall" < bcradsafers at hotmail.com>
> To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:30 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] RE: Follow-up: Ranger uranium company in Australia &
> cancer clusters among aborig
>
>
>
> It was as expected: Against mining of uranium (probably anywhere). It was
> impossible to understand the cancer information (clusters) in an
> analytical
> sense. The program also gave much talk about "leaks" from the mining site.
> I
> would like to know more about these leaks if anyone can provide fact based
> information. Guess the idea was to give the TV watchers the idea that
> these
> leaks caused those cancers.
>
> My personal ideas only,
>
> Bjorn Cedervall         bcradsafers at hotmail.com
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> > I was notified two days ago that there is an upcoming TV-program on>
> this
> > topic (For Swedish readers: Uppdrag Granskning, SVT1, 8 p.m.).> >
> "Uppdrag
> > granskning" is a program which has had biased reporting on a number> of
> > controversial issues. A personal experience five years ago taught me
> that>
> > at least some of their reporters essentially have an antiindustrial
> agenda
> > which> they support by various standard methods (like making three hour
> > interviews> with people and then cutting ut the 1-2 minutes (out of
> > context of course)> that suits their political ambitions). The
> experience
> > I was involved in> related to mobile phones - according to my opinion
> > those journalists/reporters> are half criminals (we pay tax for their
> > crap).> > This time it is about uranium & cancer - Sweden buys some of
> its
> > uranium> from Australia. Typically a TV program on a topic like this
> will
> > do anything to> scare the heck out of people by presenting
> > unfounded/biased claims.> Statistical hocus pocus is often involved
> > without any explaination relating to> confounders, various types of bias
> > etc. Emotional pictures belong to the> standard spices. I could bet a
> > whole penny that most of the involved> reporters behind the upcoming
> > program are of an antinuclear brand.> <snip>
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