NH #630 – Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster

NH #630 – Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster

Navajo Nation’s 1979 Church Rock Uranium Mining Tailings Pond Disaster In 1979 Navajo Nation suffered the worst radioactive materials spill in US history – 90-million gallons of uranium mining waste into the Puerco River that permanently contaminated land and water, devastating the health of the Diné people. These interviews are from the 40th anniversary of…

Trinity A-Bomb Test

NH #527: Trinity A-Bomb Test, Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill Anniversaries – Still Devastating New Mexico

This Week’s Featured Interviews: Trinity Downwinders advocating for justice: Trinity Downwinder Tina Cordova grew up in her family home in the Tularosa Basin, 40 miles from the explosion of the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. A cancer survivor like so many in her community, in 2005, she co-founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium. …