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12 Jun 2011

Author:
Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT)

EJOLT: (radio)active in Bulgaria

From 6 to 11 June, EJOLT partner Za Zemiata guided the ‘EJOLT-nuclear-team’ through the dirt left behind by the nuclear industry in Bulgaria...We visited an old uranium mine site where we did measurements and continued the toxic tour around a former yellow-cake factory, where uranium is extracted from the rocks...In short, the nuclear toxic tour in Bulgaria was a sometimes shocking but altogether ‘enriching’ trip where we used the opportunities for knowledge exchange between activists and scientists across national borders...from our visit it was clear that there’s lots more to do to prevent nuclear contamination from spreading, let alone to rehabilitate the damage already done to this forgotten town at the outskirts of Sofia...we...need an international coalition...to put governments under sufficient pressure before they address environmental injustices like this. He injected some hope by referring to cases in France where Areva was forced into clean-up operations.