About CRIIRAD

CRIIRAD is a national independent laboratory based in Valence, France, which was formed after the Chernobyl reactor explosion in 1986 when the French government failed to take protective measures, resulting in widespread exposure in France (caused by numerous radioactive hotspots from Chernobyl fallout). It is completely unaffiliated with any government entity and its work has never been scientifically challenged.

Over the years, CRIIRAD has identified the radioactive contamination in France from the Chernobyl fallout; the country’s 210 abandoned uranium mines whose tailings have paved school playgrounds and parking lots; the deliberate effort by the French government to apply the wrong scientific protocol in an attempt to discredit a medical study that found leukemia clusters near the La Hague reprocessing facility; and the revelation that Areva’s uranium mining activities over the past 40 years in Niger and Gabon have left the drinking water, air and soil contaminated with unacceptably (and illegally) high levels of radioactivity. (CRIIRAD’s Web site can be viewed – in French – at http://www.criirad.org/).