Transition to safer energy

Where does Korea import uranium from to produce nuclear energy? The question occurred to me for the first time after I read “Green Review” (Vol. 190) recently. In the magazine, Kim Chan-hwi, the former co-leader of Korea’s Green Party, writes: “Exposure to radiation begins from uranium mining. In the Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, uranium mining started in 1944, and it was the Indigenous people who had to mine it. Even now, after more than 500 mines were deserted, radioactivity is still leaking.” The residents there must have been exposed to radiation for a long time. Also, the process of nuclear power generation produces radioactive substances, and they can spread to surrounding areas through air or water. For example, tritium, a radioactive isotope, can cause cancer if it enters the human body. The thyroid cancer incidence rate is 2.5 times higher for women and girls who reside near nuclear power plants than for those in other areas, according to an epidemiological study by Seoul National University’s Medical Research Center. From the book “The Seventh StaWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times