Francie Diep
Commercial uranium mining on the Navajo Nation has subjected communities on tribal lands in the Southwestern United States to exposures from residual environmental contamination. Vascular health effects from these ongoing exposures are an active area of study. There is an association between residential m...
Additionally, the company has committed to accepting and transporting, at no cost to the Nation, up to 10,000 tons of uranium-bearing cleanup materials from abandoned uranium mines within theNavajo Nation, which are primarily an unfortunate relic of oldU.S.government uranium programs that began i...
New Mexico: EPA Announces Plan To Clean Up Largest Abandoned Uranium Mine On The Navajo NationIndigenousPeoplesAdmin
The Navajo Nation (NN), a sovereign indigenous tribal nation in the Southwestern United States, is home to 523 abandoned uranium mines (AUMs). Previous health studies have articulated numerous human health hazards associated with AUMs and multiple environmental mechanisms/pathways (e.g., air, ...
An Aerial Radiological Survey of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation. DOE/NV/11718--602. Remote Sensing Laboratory. Las Vegas, NV. August 2001.T. J. Hendricks, "An aerial radiological survey of abandoned uranium mines in the Navajo Nation," Technical Report DOE/NV/11718-602, ...
“The painful legacy of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation is one big step closer to being remedied through today’s historic $1 billion settlement,” said Jared Blumenfeld EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “Working together with our partners at Navajo EPA, we ...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Policy Considerations for Abandoned Uranium Mines on Navajo NationRock, TommyIngram, Jani C.Human Biology
White Paper on Cleanup Options for Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines," prepared with participation from multiple stakeholders including the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency (NNEPA), the Navajo Nation Department of Justice (NNDOJ), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)...
Abandoned Uranium Mines Plague Navajo NationNavajo neuropathy