Uranium mining, health risks and environmental injustice

Abstract This article critically examines uranium mining as a global public and environmental health crisis, rather than merely a technical or industrial activity. It discusses how extractive operations produce cumulative, long-term harms ranging from radioactive exposure and ecological degradation to intergenerational health risks that fall most heavily on communities already marginalised by social and political inequalities. Drawing on the secondary sources of data and illustrative case studie