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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
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Beyond Nuclear International Weekly
Digest
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An old uranium mine
in New Mexico needs
cleaning up, but a
plan to dump some of
the resulting waste in
a public landfill has
the Navajo community
worried, especially by
attempts to divide the
tribe, writes Kathy
Helms.
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The
Quivira uranium mine
is overdue for
cleanup, something the
local Navajo community
has been advocating
for decades. But plans
to truck waste from
the mine through other
Native communities and
dump it in a landfill
are "unacceptable",
tribal members say.
They are also asking
authorities to deliver
information in
accessible language,
including their own,
seeing the failure to
do so as deliberate
obfuscation to
railroad the plans
without local
understanding or
consent. READ
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