World Environment Day 2009 in Melbourne - Documentary Premier - 'Uranium - is it a Country'

Uranium – is it a country? is a new German  documentary film that looks

at Australia’s place in the global nuclear trade.

 Nuclear power is back on the European political agenda with increasing
public debate about its role in meeting energy needs in a carbon
constrained future. Nuclear power plants need uranium and Australia has
the world’s largest deposits. In Europe the issue is nuclear power, in
Australia it is uranium mining with the Australian Uranium Association
talking of a bright future while national environment groups increase
their efforts against more mines

 Against this background a group of independent   German documentary
movie makers journeyed from BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in
remote South Australia to the end of the nuclear line at Germany’s
nuclear waste storage sites.  Along the way they followed and filmed the
yellowcake trail and spoke to all sides of this controversial trade.
Uranium – is it a country? is the story of their journey and a story of
our times.

Contact: Film-maker Ruth Schaldach for information and interview
opportunities


Office: 38 Hutchinson Street, Brunswick East, VIC 3057
 0420452812
ruthschaldach@gmail.com
ruth.schaldach@rmit.edu.au