RADIOAKTYWNE SKAŻENIE Z KOPALNI URANU DOTYKA KOLEJNE POKOLENIA

Z powodu wydobycia uranu na potrzeby przemysłu jądrowego i wojennego w USA, woda, ziemia i powietrze na terenach zamieszkałych przez Indian Nawaho zostały zanieczyszczone, a ludność częściej choruje na nowotwory.

W Polsce władze zgodziły się już na poszukiwanie uranu w Sudetach, choć w sąsiednich Czechach w tym samym czasie miliony koron są przeznaczane na rekultywację zdewastowanych pr
zez kopalnie terenów.

New Mexico’s long history of uranium mining on Native American lands provides fuel for the front end of the nuclear industry and stores much of the mine tailings and radioactive waste from nuclear weapons and power plants. We look at the devastating impact uranium mining continues to have on Native lands with Leona Morgan of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, a group dedicated to protecting the water, air, land and health of communities in areas impacted by uranium mines. We’re also joined by Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico and former Los Alamos National Laboratory investigator Chuck Montaño. [includes rush transcript]

Navaho people: So, for us right now, we are still living with the effects from the mining of the 20th century. The uranium boom had caused severe impacts to the economy, our health, and of course the environment. And as indigenous peoples who live on the land and have our—all of our ways and our traditions based within our four sacred mountains, this is going to have lasting impacts not just to our culture and our health, but to future generations.