Trailer english version YELLOW CAKE The dirt behind uranium

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Uranium mining, the first link in the chain of nuclear development, has managed again and again to keep itself out of the public eye.
A web of propaganda, disinformation and lies covers its sixty-year history. The third largest uranium mine in the world was located in the East German provinces of Saxony and Thuringia. Operating until the Reunification, it had the code name WISMUT -- German for bismuth, though it supplied the Soviet Union exclusively with the much sought-after strategic resource Yellow Cake.
Until 1990 WISMUT supplied the Soviet Union with 220,000 tons of uranium. In absolute terms this quantity was enough for the production of 32,000 Hiroshima bombs.

For the last 20 years WISMUT have been making a huge material and financial effort to come to terms with their past, which is an alarming present and future on other continents.

The film accompanies for several years the biggest clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining and takes the viewers to the big mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Wismut
• Thüringen
• Sachsen

[TheGingerLady]

germnan soviet? umm could you pleas tell me where you found this and further information on it? We are making a school project on nuclear reactors. Thanx