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Where is South Downtown and Las Colonias Park? The South Downtown Neighborhood includes all properties located between South 4th Street and 28 Road and between the Railroad Tracks and the Colorado River. Primarily the former Climax mill tailings site, the future Las Colonias Park is located in South Downtown between South 9th Street and 27-1/2 Road and Kimball Avenue to the Colorado River.

WASHINGTON (December 7, 2007) - This morning Senate supporters of a landmark clean energy bill failed to get enough votes to end debate and bring it to a vote. The Bush administration and its Senate allies blocked the bill because it included a renewable electricity standard and tax provisions. The 53 to 42 vote to end debate by invoking cloture fell short of the necessary 60 votes. Five Republicans—Sens. Norman Coleman (Minn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Gordon Smith (Ore.) Olympia Snowe (Maine) and John Thune (S.D.)—joined Democrats to vote for ending debate and proceeding to a vote.

A study is in progress to estimate the contamination of the human food chain by uranium, /sup 230/Th, /sup 226/Ra /sup 210/Pb, and /sup 210/Po originating from tailing piles associated with uranium ore processing mills.^Rabbits, cattle, vegetables, and grass were collected on or near two uranium mill sites.^For controls, similar samples were obtained from areas 20 km or more from the mining and mill operations.^For the onsite rabbits the mean /sup 226/Ra concentrations in muscle, lung, and kidney of 5.5, 14, and 15 pCi/kg wet, respectively, were substantially higher than those in the respective tissues of control animals (0.4, 1.5, and 0.2 pCi/kg).^The levels in liver did not differ significantly between the groups.^The concentrations in bone (femur and vertebra) were about 9000 and 350 pCi/kg ash for the onsite and offsite animals, respectively.^The levels of /sup 210/Pb and /sup 210/Po did not differ significantly for a given tissue between the two groups, except that the /sup 210/Pb level in the kidney was greater in the onsite group.^For cattle, the concentrations in muscle, liver, and kidney do not differ greatly between those grazed near the pile and the controls.^The levels of /sup 226/Ra, and possibly of /sup 210/Pb, appear to be greater in the femur of the animals near the piles.^Vegetables from a residential area on a mill site contained substantially greater concentrations of /sup 226/Ra and /sup 210/Pb than those reported for standard New York City diets.^Grass and cattle dung from land irrigated by water containing 60 pCi/L /sup 226/Ra from uranium mines had concentrations of /sup 226/Ra and /sup 210/Pb 50 and 8 times, respectively, those in control samples.^It is estimated that doubling the normal concentrations in meat and vegetables of uranium and daughter products could increase the dose equivalent rates to the skeletons of persons consuming these foods by 30 or more mrem/yr.

Radioactive barrel swap in Iraq 30 Jun 2003 Exchanging radioactive barrels for clean water containers in Iraq Greenpeace activists today took clean water containers into the communities around the Tuwaitha nuclear facility near Baghdad and encouraged people to swap them for radioactive containers, contaminated with uranium 'yellowcake'.

Résidus Mines d’Uranium en France :

Countering The Hard Sell On Uranium Double Oscar nominee David Bradbury's latest film travelled up on the bus from Brunswick Heads, and was literally hot off the press and "straight out of a Brisbane editing suite", at a preview screening held at Brisbane Square Library this afternoon [15/4/07]. 'A Hard Rain' provides a much needed counterpoint to the lack of debate and misinformation surrounding the invisible push toward a nuclear future for Australia. The film looks at the nuclear cycle, from the mining of uranium through to its processing in a nuclear power plant, to radioactive waste and weapons manufacturing.

Dining on yellowcake with the devil Sydney Morning Herald Grigory Pasko September 4, 2007 - "Russian nuclear power stations account for 16 per cent of the country's electricity production. Last year the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, demanded the proportion be increased to 25 per cent by 2030. These ambitious plans have already raised a storm of indignation from environmentalists in Russia. First and foremost because Russia is doing practically nothing to develop alternative power sources, following a path of least resistance and imperial desire to develop an industry that will be useful for military purposes as well.............................

Nuclear Workers Struggle with an Unworkable Claims Process By Mark Schiller