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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 05:12:50 JST Gerry McGovern

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   “The leftover slurry was piped into two unlined earthen pits, the largest the size of 50 football fields and filled with over 21 million tons of uranium mill tailings. Over time, the uranium tailings decayed into radon gas; meanwhile, radioactive contaminants seeped into four of the region’s aquifers. Residents compiled a list of neighbors who died of cancer — they called it the Death Map.”

   https://www.hcn.org/articles/contamination-threatens-the-last-source-of-clean-groundwater-in-west-new-mexico/

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 05:12:51 JST Gerry McGovern

     “Nuclear energy seems less harmful because its damage is often invisible or long-term. However, uranium mining leaves behind 99.99% of the extracted material as radioactive waste, contaminating land and water for centuries. The mining sites are primarily in Indigenous territories—such as those of the Navajo in the U.S., First Nations in Canada, Aboriginal Australians, and communities in Niger and Kazakhstan.”

     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43361652

     Steve's Place repeated this.