In Cibola County, New Mexico, 22 million tons of uranium waste sit uncapped four decades after Cold War-era mining ended, contaminating groundwater and driving rare cancer clusters among nearby residents — many of them Indigenous. PBS NewsHour and ProPublica document the health toll: cancers, respiratory illness and inadequate federal cleanup.
Residents in the Southwest struggle with the health effects of nuclear ore extraction
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Stephanie Sy, Lena I. Jackson, Frank Carlson
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August 8, 2022
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