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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country - Voyles, Traci Brynne
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Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. ...

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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country 2015, University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota

ISBN-13: 9780816692675

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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country 2015, University of Minnesota Press

ISBN-13: 9780816692644

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