This Month's Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation's Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up

Uranium sickened Navajo who worked in the mines and contaminated the mountains where they hunted, grazed livestock and gathered plants for medicines and ceremonies.

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