Radiation Exposure from 50 Years of Uranium Mining Continues to Affect Spokane Indian Reservation
(Video) The Spokane Reservation is about forty-five miles northwest of the city of Spokane. And when the mines opened, the workforce was largely tribal people, and a lot of women worked in the mines at that time. And so, we’ve heard a lot of stories of women that worked there that were placed in certain positions because they were over childbearing age. And we’ve lost a lot of our people to illnesses related to—which we feel are related to the mine and the ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The radiation effects from uranium mining and refinement are under-reported, and often not accounted for by advocates of nukes.