1.   Although uranium has been mined in the area for years, city officials insist that radioactivity registers no higher here than in Toronto or New York.

2.   It was exploited by the Nazis before being taken over by the Russians, who mined uranium in the area.

3.   The committee found that the several thousand workers who mined uranium for the government to make the atomic bombs were exposed to relatively high levels of radiation.

4.   A small group of protesters from three different continents gathered outside UNESCO on Wednesday to protest plans to mine uranium at Kakadu, an Australian national park.

5.   She said U.S. officials also are closely watching activity by several hundred North Koreans in Congo, where uranium is mined.

6.   The rationale is that uranium has been mined on Indian land in Saskatchewan for years and they have gotten little out of it.