Reply #22: Posted that one before...but here are some books.

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"If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans" ~ Peter H. Eichstaedt

Is a great book discussing the impacts of Uranium mining and the Navajo (and Pueblos) Nation and the problems of DC based compensation policies (marriage cert, death cert, english only forms (many speak Navajo only). Today well over 100 uranium tailings pile exist on Navajo land still w/o any concern b/c its Indian land. We've lost a generation of men and women on reservations due to the impacts of mining. Kids are sick, animals are sick.

Many more books on that issue. Too many to list, Amazon has many.

Yucca Mtn. and WIPP the two storage facilities are in the SW, both flawed in the science of their safety. Yucca (now a dead deal we hope) is a dormant volcano on a fault line and sacred to over 10 tribes. WIPP is a salt flat in S. NM.

Transportation of waste - 90% of all nuclear waste will go through tribal lands and less populated areas. Rail lines will be used. Places like Albuquerque and Flagstaff we will have the waste go right through town and the tracks don't detour. Risk assesments assure us a major spill during shipments to long term storage facility. 1 out 10 trains will carry nuke waste through flagstaff at peak transport times. Flagstaff in 2000 (when I last lived their) got over a 100 trains a day running through town. Over 10 trains a day in the middle of town carrying nuke waste.

Much of the uranium in the SW is either on tribal lands or federal lands. Lots of its near the Grand Canyon and Monuments in S. UT. Private land holdings by folks with the last name of Babbit want to mine again....so we risk the potential pollution of places like Coyote Buttes, Verminllon Cliffs, Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Mt. Taylor, on and on.

we have cancer clusters in places like Gallup, Shiprock, Churck Rock. We have wells in places like Churck Rock, NM where tribal members cannot drink the water b/c of uranium poisioning.

Also Albuquerque, NM aquifer (public water supply) sits below Kirkland AF base and Sandia Lab. The Labs nuclear waste dump will leach into the aquifer within a decade according to state hydrologists.

so really how is nuclear clean?


In the northwest we have Hanford Nuclear site in Washington. 2 tribes were kicked off their land to build this nuke facility. 12 tribes called that land home for hunting and had treaty rights....now that land is poisoned, destroyed from the years of nuclear spill and leaking into the Columbia River.

It goes on and on.

Yucca Mountain (storage), the mining, the transportation, Sandia Labs, Los Alamos Labs, WIPP....the southwest was labeled a desert wasteland by the US government in the 50s and would be used b/c nobody cared at that time it was only tribes. Today its home to major US cities like Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, and gems like Santa Fe, Sendona, Durango, Telluride, and Taos.

Type in american indian tribes nuclear (legacy) in an internet search....you'll get a lot of info.