{"id":24957,"date":"2011-03-22T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/22\/nuclear-fuel-mining-in-niger\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:49:04","slug":"nuclear-fuel-mining-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/nuclear-fuel-mining-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Fuel Mining in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking last in the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where more than 40% of children are underweight for their age, water and access to improved water sources is scarce and almost three quarters of the population are illiterate, the French nuclear giant AREVA extracts precious&#8211;and deadly&#8211;natural resources, earning billions for its Fortune 5002 corporation, and leaving little behind but centuries of environmental pollution and health risks for the citizens of Niger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/Global\/international\/publications\/nuclear\/2010\/AREVA_Niger_report.pdf\"><br \/>\nFrom this (PDF) report. <\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ioRtzOWm07A&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking last in the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where more than 40% of children are underweight for their age, water and access to improved water sources is scarce and almost three quarters of the population are illiterate, the French nuclear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/nuclear-fuel-mining-in-niger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuclear Fuel Mining in Niger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ux","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}