{"article":{"id":229018,"heading":" The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history: July 16, 1979, Navajo Reservation","author":"Ann Garrison","created":"2009-07-19 13:14:39","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:44","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:00:44","article":"

Full text at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/nk4zqu<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/nk4zqu","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"July 16th, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation. \r\n\r\nToday, the Navajo Nation remains under toxic siege, by coal mining, uranium mining, and coal-fired power, even though an EPA doc already suggests that the entire reservation is a Superfund site. The Navajo Tribal Council, in 2005, passed a uranium mining ban, the Din\u00e9 Natural Resources Protection Act, and thus won a Nuclear Free Future Award, but the ban has been under pressure since the day it was passed, and uranium mining claims now surround the Navajo Reservation like an advancing army.\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/07\/navajo_reservation_small.jpg","filesize":"19.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/07\/229018.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/07\/navajo_reservation_small.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/07\/navajo_reservation_small.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}