Nuclear Regulatory Commission's elimination of obstacles to uranium mining on Navajo territory; Impact of uranium mining on the Navajo Nations.ShaimanMarshaRace & ClassShaiman, Marsha. 1998. "US: Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands." Race and Class 39(4): 81-84....
The story of the Navajo Nation and uranium mining is, at its heart, a tale of environmental justice. From the late 1940s until the 1960s, uranium mining by private corporations whose sole purchaser was the federal government, employed Navajos to work the mines in the Four Corners area. ...
Uranium mining contributed substantially to lung cancer among Navajo men over the 25-year period following the end of mining for the Navajo Nation. Sixty-three (67%) of the 94-incident lung cancers among Navajo men occurred in former uranium miners. The relative risk for a history of mining ...
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...
mining companies have a poor history of community welfare. This situation could happen anywhere in the nation. It already has in some locations, such asOklahoma’s Tar Creek area, which I know a lot about. I lived and worked in that area for nearly 4 months in early 2005. Trust me when...
Uranium mining in the Navajo nation (1947-1966): a case of undesigned human experimentationMoureEraso, Rafael
The History of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People. Am J Public Health. 2002; 92 :1410–1419. [ PMC free article ] [ PubMed ]Brugge D, Goble R. The history of uranium mining and the Navajo people. Am J Public Health 2002; 92: 1410-19....
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country . By Traci Brynne Voyles. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xv+292 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $87.50, cloth; $25.00, paper.)The history of Southwest uranium mining, and on the Navajo ...
Presents information on a study which investigated the long-term consequences of uranium mining in a high-risk population by examining lung cancer incidence among Navajo men residing in New Mexico and Arizona from 1969 to 1993. Estimated risk of lung cancer for Navajo uranium miners; Methodology; ...
Navajos Fear More Uranium Mining in New Mexico.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Norrell, Brenda