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Uranium mining and weapons contamination, on the Navajo Nation

author: Ann Garrison
May 26, 2009 12:08

The uranium in the weapons that the Navajo vets had believed to be the reason they were dying might well have been mined, in their own poisoned homeland, as the U.S. built its post World War II nuclear power, weapons, and war machine.

Uranium mining sediment pond, Church Rock, N.M. Navajo Reservation.
Uranium mining sediment pond, Church Rock, N.M. Navajo Reservation.

Cross post from Examiner.com,  http://tinyurl.com/poazj4

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