Tag Archives: uranium mining

Government urges Supreme Court to hear uranium mining case via Washington Post

Posted on 2018/04/22 by nfield

CHATHAM, Va. — The federal government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit over Virginia’s ban on uranium mining. Attorneys for the Department of Justice and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission filed a brief with the high … Continue reading →

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On the 26,000 tons of radioactive waste under Lake Powell. And more. via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2018/01/05 by nfield

Beneath the murky green waters on the north end of Lake Powell, entombed within the tons of silt that have been carried down the Colorado River over the years, lies a 26,000-ton pile of un-remediated uranium mill tailings. It’s just … Continue reading →

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Trump’s message for tribes: Let them eat yellowcake via High Country News

Posted on 2017/12/12 by nfield

By Jacqueline Keeler Uranium, it’s now part of Navajo DNA. With over 500 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, people living near these mines are exposed daily to radiation exposure at a rate several times higher than normal background … Continue reading →

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Navajo Nation Artists Respond to the Threat of Uranium Radiation via Hyperallergic

Posted on 2017/09/23 by nfield

Nuclear contamination from abandoned uranium mines is rampant across the Navajo Nation, and a community of artists is raising awareness through a street art project and gallery exhibition. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A large-scale human rights violation is occurring in the … Continue reading →

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Someone else can clean it up General Atomics looks to offload uranium Superfund site in Colorado via the San Diego Reader

Posted on 2017/07/25 by nfield

After more than a decade in mothballs, a subsidiary of San Diego’s General Atomics has indicated that it intends to offload the cleanup work at a uranium mine it owns in central Colorado. The Cañon City facility, owned by the … Continue reading →

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In the Grand Canyon, uranium mining threatens a tribe’s survival via The Guardian

Posted on 2017/07/17 by nfield

[…] “The water talks to us, it has a voice you can hear all the time. We drink it, we depend on it. If it gets poisoned we are finished,” he said. Tilousi is vice-chairman of the Havasupai Native Americans, a … Continue reading →

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Native American uranium miners and the Trump budget via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/03/31 by nfield

By Robert Alvarez […] Native American uranium miners were essential to the United States’ efforts to create a nuclear arsenal. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Indian people dug up approximately four million tons of uranium ore—nearly a … Continue reading →

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Indigenous Delegation to DC: Radioactive Pollution Kills via Defenders of the Black Hills

Posted on 2016/12/12 by nfield

      (This delegation went to Washington, D.C. in January of 2016. Defenders of the Black Hills, whose coordinator, Charmaine White Face of the Great Sioux Nation, speaks first and recurrently, recently disbanded. They stringently opposed the Dakota Access … Continue reading →

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Uranium mining industry in survival mode after Fukushima via Enformable

Posted on 2016/10/05 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] The shutdown of nuclear power plants in the wake of the disaster generated a large surplus of uranium – combined with the rise of fracking and natural gas, drove uranium prices to record lows, and forced most of the … Continue reading →

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The Link Between Uranium From the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies via Truthout

Posted on 2016/09/05 by norma field

On August 6 — Hiroshima Day — I participated in a groundbreaking event at the South African Museum in Cape Town entitled The Missing Link: Peace and Security Surrounding Uranium. The event had been organised by the Congolese Civil Society … Continue reading →

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