Uranium Waste Still Takes Its Toll in Navajoland!

[Bobbieo]

Uranium Link To Kidney Ailments In ‘Navajo Uranium Assessment’

http://nativeunity.blogpspot.com


Yet, Bush and Company wants to reopen those mines and he still has six months left to do it!!

[cloudythescribbler]

1. This link does NOT take you to the article, and it's difficult to get there nt

[losthills]

2. Here's the correct link:

(there was just an extra p in "blogspot")

http://nativeunity.blogspot.com/

Uranium Link To Kidney Ailments In 'Navajo Uranium Assessment'
By Kathy Helms
Dine Bureau
CHURCHROCK – Preliminary modeling and statistical analysis of the first 400 people participating in the Navajo Uranium Assessment and Kidney Health Project has shown two significant factors linking environmental exposure to uranium and kidney disease.

Chris Shuey of Southwest Information Research Center in Albuquerque said the study, which is evaluating kidney health in 20 chapters of the Navajo Nation, is something of a replication of studies done in Canada, Finland and Russia, however, the Navajo project is by far the largest.

“There's none that have come close to 1,300 in the pool of people,” he said. So far, information from the first 400 people surveyed, coupled with soil and water data, has turned up six factors that are seen as statistically significant.
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Uranium mining operations in Eastern Agency have left a legacy of environmental exposures that, when coupled with naturally occurring uranium, has raised concerns that significant exposures may be occurring through the use of unregulated drinking water.

The prevalence of kidney disease in the region is substantially greater than nationally and occurs in younger members of the community than expected nationally, according to information presented to APHA.
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Soil sampling at the Nez residence turned up a high concentration of Radium-226, the most radio-toxic of all the uranium decay products, Shuey said. “It is a bone-seeker, causes leukemia and bone cancer in people.”

Before U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came in under the “imminent and substantial endangerment clause of the Superfund law” to remove the soil, Shey said, “concentrations of this contaminant in soils throughout this mine site and over here where we're standing now ... if it had been down at the tailings site, it would have been a violation of federal law.”

Lost Hills: When you look at a nuclear reactor, you are only seeing the front end of a train of radiological pollution that goes back to the source of the uranium that fuels it. The nuclear waste that is produced at these mine sites is impossible to contain and impossible to clean up. Eventually it finds it's way into aquifers, which are then poisoned forever. If we keep building reactors this tragic story will never end, because those reactors need a steady supply of fuel.

[NNadir]

3. However the Kayenta coal mines and coal burning electric plants have NO consequence on health.

This is in spite of the fact that the Kayenta plants are responsible for covering the Grand Canyon with a haze of filth.

In fundie caculations - illiterate as they are - one death from uranium is worth hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution.

[losthills]

4. It's impossible to replace coal with uranium.

And we would just create more misery by trying.

[NNadir]

5. If you don't know what you're talking about, make stuff up.

YOU have never in your life contemplated the capacity utilization of power plants, and you couldn't care less about dangerous coal pollution and dangerous coal waste.

You don't know a fucking thing about electric power plant operations and cite ZERO references.

The entire anti-nuke cult consists of sloganeering, illiteracy, selective attention, and laziness.

There are ZERO fundie anti-nukes on this website whose posts consist of well thought out, referenced, articles. Some dipshits in this class are worse than others, but all are illiterate.

There is NOT ONE dumb fundie anti-nuke on this website who gives a rat's ass about the dangers of coal mining on Dine reservations, even though, Dine miners get black lung, and other diseases related to coal mining.

http://www.msha.gov/FATALS/1996/FTL96C37.HTM


http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/10/21/news/local/20071021_local_news_25.txt


http://www.wrcc.osmre.gov/WR/deis/chapter1.pdf

But, in a feast of selective attention, EVERY dumb fundie anti-nuke has a fetish for uranium miners.

The number of uranium miners who have died in 50 years of nuclear power is trivial compared

Ignorance kills.

YOU. COULDN'T. CARE. LESS. ABOUT. THE. HEALTH. OF. THE. DINE. PEOPLE. (Except for a fetish about uranium miners from the 1950's.)

Again, IGNORANCE KILLS.

[losthills]

6. Thanks for your input.....

It's every bit as valuable as your usual postings.

I'm sorry that you didn't read (or couldn't understand) the article referenced above. I hope that other people will read it, because it's important to the future of our country (and our planet) that we get a grip on theses issues-- and soon....