NH #630 – Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster

from Nuclear Hotseat · host Libbe Halevy

Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster In 1979 Navajo Nation suffered the worst radioactive materials spill in US history – 90-million gallons of uranium mining waste into the Puerco River that permanently contaminated land and water, devastating the health of the Diné people. These interviews are from the 40th anniversary of...

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