According to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, uranium mining has been responsible for the largest collective exposure of workers to radiation. One estimate puts the number of workers who have died of lung cancer and silicosis due to mining and milling alone at 20,000. It is widely agreed that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. The above statements are made up of lies and half-truths. While mining is inherently risky, the current safety standards for uranium miners is very high.
Many scientists agree that small doses of radiation are beneficial.
They need to be isolated from people and the wider environment for up to tens or even hundred of thousands of years. The above statement is another blatant lie. Nuclear waste, as we have seen does not need to be stored for those time-frames. Most of the radiation is gone after 60 years, and after only 1,000 years the radioactivity of the waste is similar to that of the ore from which it was derived. Storage of waste in geologically stable repositories is associated with very little risk despite what the anti-nuclear parakeets say.