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The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a
history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to
know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to
do with it.
by Florence Williams,
May 26, 2008
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Nellie Sandoval, the mother of scientist Stefanie
Raymond-Whish, has become an outspoken activist as a result of her
own struggle with breast cancer.
by Florence Williams,
May 26, 2008
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Glenda Rangel and her family grew up drinking from and
swimming in water tanks dangerously polluted with
uranium.
by Florence Williams,
May 26, 2008
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Kathleen Tsosie, who has devoted her life to helping
others, now faces the frightening possibility that her breast
cancer has returned.
by Florence Williams,
May 26, 2008
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The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was
created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by
their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird
Struminger says the program has proved flawed
by Laura Paskus,
Sep 24, 2006
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With uranium prices rising, speculators are looking anew
at busted mining towns like Jeffrey City, Wyo., but locals have
learned to be skeptical
by Samuel Western,
Sep 04, 2006
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"Divine Strake" — a proposed weapons detonation at
the Nevada Test Site – has stirred up fears of radioactive
contamination and the possibility of a new nuclear arms
race
by Allison Gerfin,
May 29, 2006
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The designation of a new wilderness area in Utah –
the Cedar Mountain Wilderness -- may make it harder for nuclear
power plant operators to ship radioactive waste to the Skull Valley
Goshute Indian Reservation
by Matt Jenkins,
Mar 06, 2006
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In 1969, the Atomic Energy Commission exploded an
underground nuclear bomb in western Colorado; today, the site of
Project Rulison is attracting natural gas drillers
by Jennie Lay,
Mar 07, 2005
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Sandia National Laboratories wants to monitor the nuclear
waste in a Cold War-era landfill just outside Albuquerque, rather
than excavate it or try to move it elsewhere
by Lissa James,
Oct 11, 2004
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