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Uranium company ERA fined for radioactive pollution of workers

Twenty-eight workers had fallen ill with spontaneous vomiting, gastric upsets, headaches or skin rashes after drinking or showering in the water, which contained 400 times more uranium than recommended

When PR Goes Nuclear | Green Hybrid Cars , 29 Sept 10, Northern Territory based miner and producer of uranium oxide Energy Resources Of Australia Limited (ERA) were today fined $150,000 being successfully prosecuted on charges brought by the Northern Territory Department of Business, Industry and Resource Development under the Mining Management Act.

The charges related to an incident concerning the connection of the drinking and process water systems at the Ranger uranium processing plant in Kakadu National Park in March 2004.

Twenty-eight workers had fallen ill with spontaneous vomiting, gastric upsets, headaches or skin rashes after drinking or showering in the water, which contained 400 times more uranium than recommended the court had heard. When PR Goes Nuclear | Green Hybrid Cars – Hybrid Guide

October 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | legal, Northern Territory, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, renewable, uranium