NH #762: Navajo Nation Uranium Mine “Remediation” Con Job – Anna Rondon + Kevin Kamps w/Palisades “Zombie Nuke” Restart UPDATE
Navajo Nation children make their wants and needs clear.
This Week’s Featured Interview #1:
Anna Rondon on government’s push for uranium extraction disguised as a “clean up”:
- Anna Rondon is a dedicated lifetime advocate for the rights of Navajo Nation and all Indigenous people. For the past 40 years, she has worked in various leadership positions, including for the Navajo Nation government, the Eastern Navajo Agency-Local Government Office, the Navajo Nation Chichiltah Chapter, and the Navajo Nation Department of Health. She is currently with the New Mexico Social Justice Equity Institute.Here, she explains the current push that calls itself a “clean-up” of abandoned uranium mines, but is really a scheme to extract commercially-viable uranium to be sold for corporate profit. It’s a money-grab for extractive resources that will leave the Navajo people stuck with more waste, no clean-up, and all the responsibility.I spoke with Anna Rondon on January 31, 2026.
Links:
- Anna Rondon – Contact
- LINK to John Trudell song Anna uses for inspiration:
Featured Interview #2:
Kevin Kamps and Holtec’s Planned Palisades Nuclear Restart in Michigan:
- Kevin Kamps is the Radioactive Waste Watchdog with Beyond Nuclear and our go-to source on a wide range of radioactive waste issues. Here, he brings us up to date on the problems with Holtec’s planned restart of the shuttered Palisades nuclear reactor in southern Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan.
- I spoke with Kevin Kamps on January 16, 2026
ICAN Update with Alistair Burnett:
Alistair Burnett, Head of Media for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) provides a look back at issues from 2025 and a summary of where we are now, including the latest on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or TPNW. He reports directly from ICAN’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It includes an interview w/Florian Eblenkamp, ICAN’s Advocacy Coordinator.
The Nuclear Resister w/Jack Cohen-Joppa
Jack Cohen-Joppa, co-coordinator of the Nuclear Resister, presents another story about activists who stood their ground, taken out of our shared nuclear past – with this one still active in our present: the ongoing and still current tale of Mordechai Vanunu in Israel.
