Urânio, riscos e incertezas: mapeamento institucional nos municípios do sudoeste da Bahia, Brasil

Abstract

The issue of radioactivity involves risks and is immersed in uncertainty and misinformation. In Bahia, in Caetité, between 2000 and 2013 with the implementation Uranifer of the Nuclear Industries of Brazil, workers and the community experienced recurrent accidents in the mining area, with consequences for health and the environment, which mobilized social subjects. to complaints. This study aims to build the institutional map of public institutions for the control of radioactive risk in the southwestern municipalities of Bahia. The adopted methodology was a qualitative documentary, multiple-case analytical and descriptive study, by an approach to hermeneutics, having as theoretical reference the model of the Center for Disease Control of the United States of America, for the analysis of the Essential Functions in Health Public 68 documents produced by public institutions, civil society organizations and periodicals from the main newspapers in the state of Bahia and São Paulo were analyzed in the period between 2004 and 2015. It is concluded that the mapping indicated the absence of effective institutional actions aimed at control radioactive risk, demonstrating low institutional capacity focused on the issue of radioactivity and conforming differentiated management models. Agendas proposed by civil society organizations and social movements that mobilized social actors around institutional actions were identified; studies and surveys by independent national and international organizations on radioactive risk. It proposes a research agenda on the participation of social movements in the production of public policies, aimed at controlling the radioactive risk in mining territories. It also produced the elaboration of 2 articles. Mapping of Institutional Actions for Radioactive Risk Control in the Triangle of Uranium Mining in Bahia, Brazil and Social Movements and the Agenda of Uranium Mining in southwestern Bahia, Brazil.