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The history of uranium mining and the Navajo people

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  • Brugge, D.
  • Goble, R.

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From World War II until 1971, the government was the sole purchaser of uranium ore in the United States. Uranium mining occurred mostly in the southwestern United States and drew many Native Americans and others into work in the mines and mills. Despite a long and well-developed understanding, based on the European experience earlier in the century, that uranium mining led to high rates of lung cancer, few protections were provided for US miners before 1962 and their adoption after that time was slow and incomplete. The resulting high rates of illness among miners led in 1990 to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

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  • Brugge, D. & Goble, R., 2002. "The history of uranium mining and the Navajo people," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 92(9), pages 1410-1419.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2002:92:9:1410-1419_5
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    1. Marcos Luna, 2008. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Distancing and the Geographic Relationship Between Electricity Consumption and Production in Massachusetts," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 89(5), pages 1277-1292, December.
    2. Jonathan Credo & Jaclyn Torkelson & Tommy Rock & Jani C. Ingram, 2019. "Quantification of Elemental Contaminants in Unregulated Water across Western Navajo Nation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(15), pages 1-15, July.
    3. Sara S. Nozadi & Li Li & Li Luo & Debra MacKenzie & Esther Erdei & Ruofei Du & Carolyn W. Roman & Joseph Hoover & Elena O’Donald & Courtney Burnette & Johnnye Lewis, 2021. "Prenatal Metal Exposures and Infants’ Developmental Outcomes in a Navajo Population," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(1), pages 1-24, December.
    4. Benjamin A. Jones, 2017. "The social costs of uranium mining in the US Colorado Plateau cohort, 1960–2005," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 62(4), pages 471-478, May.
    5. Tommy Rock & Lindsey Jones & Jani C. Ingram, 2021. "Approaches for Disseminating Environmental Research Findings to Navajo Communities," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(13), pages 1-8, June.

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