Areva monitors workers health in uranium mining regions

AREVA announced on December 6 the creation of OSRA (Health Observatory for the region of Agadez). One year after setting up the Health Observatory of Mounana, Gabon, the new Agadez facility marks a forward stride in the process initiated in 2007 by AREVA and its partners. Just like the Mounana observatory for the mines operated in Gabon, OSRA is to monitor the health of former workers exposed to uranium at the AREVA mines in Niger, as well as monitoring the health of the local population. It will be devoted to delivering transparent information to the Niger authorities, former employees and surrounding communities, with the results of health monitoring carried out around the mining sites operated by AREVA. (more…)