Open AccessThinking Woman’s Children and the Bomb
Author(s) -
Helen Jaskoski
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
ethnic studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0730-904X
DOI - 10.1525/ees.1990.13.2.1
Subject(s) - corporation , slurry , uranium , waste management , mill , archaeology , law , environmental science , forensic engineering , engineering , mining engineering , history , environmental engineering , political science , metallurgy , materials science
Sometime in the pre-dawn hours of July 16, 1979, an earthen dam holding back wastes produced by United Nuclear Corporation9s uranium mill parted in Church Rock, New Mexico. From the widening breach poured ninety four million gallons of highly contaminated effluent and 1,100 tons of wet slurry sands.
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