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Tag: Yakama Nation

  • Nuclear Nightmares

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    Jay Taber
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    With the International Uranium Film Festival set to open November 27 & 28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the news from Yakama Nation — whose territory includes the Hanford Nuclear Reservation — is especially disturbing. As reported at Salon, the research and technical manager for the country’s largest Superfund cleanup, Walter Tamosaitis, was fired by Bechtel…

  • American Chernobyl

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    Jay Taber
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    Nuclear waste has been leaking into the Columbia River for my entire life, and I recently turned 60. So when I read the BBC News story about new leaks from radioactive waste tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, I wondered what was new about it. Reviewing the BBC article, what’s new is what’s left out…