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Article: Uranium mining banned on Navajo lands.
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- Peace and Freedom
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Eighty percent of nuclear fuel cycle activities take place on tribal lands. The Navajo Nation (sovereign nation of the Dine' people) in the Four Corners Area of the southwest is where 25 percent of the U.S. supply of uranium is located. Those who profit from nuclearism externalize the risks and costs to the future, in conflict with the values of land-based cultures. In 2005, the Navajo Nation passed the Dine' Resources Protection Act. The Act forbids any future uranium mining and milling in the Nation, until remediation of past-polluted sites is complete. Since 2001, the price of uranium has risen twelve times, from an average of $7 per pound to $85 per pound. Countries ...
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