'The Return Of Navajo Boy' Opens Up Uranium Tragedy

The Documentary Film Breaks Down Barriers Surrounding Uranium Legacy
by Kathy Helms
Award-Winning Investigative Reporter

The radioactive waste left from abandoned mines and continuing health problems for Navajo people!

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LTTE yesterday in San Francisco Chronicle - not one person has died, nor has the environment ever been harmed, by nuclear power.

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How many bombs does the US have again?

A government crazy to enough to build thousands of atomic weapons of every sort and test them in open air isn't going to pay much attention to the safety of uranium mining.

My father-in-law witnessed a nuclear test up close. He and his fellow soldiers washed the radioactive dust off themselves in field showers and measured how clean they were with geiger counters.

Nobody was looking out for the Indians in and around the uranium mines. It was all about the bombs.

Even in the seventies and early eighties when I was doing a lot of anti-nuclear activism, there was still a lot of "atomic secrets" kind of mentality in the nuclear power industry, probably because many maybe even most of the managers and engineers had some sort of military background and experience.

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it is killing us as sure as the sun comes up in the east. We stopped a nuke plant from being built upwind of me years ago. The industry as a whole will never be honest with anyone about any facet of it other than it has a lot of energy in a small package, which it does but that energy comes at a high cost. With our aging nuclear power plants the likelihood of a major catastrophe is growing with each passing day. My hope is they will be decommissioned due to their age before that happens but I wouldn't bet on it as some are asking for extensions to their licenses. Nuclear energy sucks

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Yup and now OK produces 92% of its power by fossil fuels.

Hell even China isn't that bad in terms of damage to the planet.

Way to go Oklahoma. The dubious distinction of highest fossil fuel usage in the country!

Fortunately, the lungs & digestive systems of Oklahomans acts
as a pretty good filter ... so everyone's happy ... no?

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