Uranium mining documentary

This documentary interviews several residents of Haystack, New Mexico in 2015 about the uranium water contamination that is a result of a history of mining on the Navajo Nation. The documentary interviews many water activists fighting from both outside and inside the Navajo Nation for the right to safe drinking water for the Navajo people

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Mar 15, 2012 The resulting documentary juxtaposes cin ma v rit footage of the present with romanticized images of the Clys from the 1950s—postcard pictures and snippets from four film shorts, including Kennedy’s “Navaho Boy” and a promotional film for the uranium industry—to tell an utterly unromantic family history of exploitation and loss

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Nov 07, 2021 Although Zuni was not subjected to uranium mining, it lies downwind from the 1979 Church Rock uranium mining spill on the Navajo Nation. ... PBS documentary looks at

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Uranium mining was imposed on the Mirarr in the late 1970s and people would still prefer it had never come to their country. Senior Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula says that with mining: The promises never last but the problems always do . To convey a sense of the Mirarr's experience of imposed uranium mining, Gundjeihmi - in partnership

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uranium-mining belt, was swept into the boom.1 Uranium was discovered in Cove, Ariz, and then elsewhere in the reserva-tion.18 Eventually, 4 centers of mining and milling operated on reservation land near Shiprock, NM (including the Carrizo Moun-tains, near Cove), in Monument Valley, Utah, and at Church Rock, NM, and Kayenta, Ariz (see Figure 1)

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Aug 09, 2021 Uranium is a naturally-occurring radioactive element that has been mined and used for its chemical properties for more than a thousand years. It is now primarily used as fuel for nuclear reactors that make electricity. Uranium can be recovered in two ways: by conventional mining of the rock (ore), or by using strong chemicals to dissolve uranium from the rock that is still in the ground and

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Sep 24, 2021 China’s CGN Mining sits fourth. The company produced 3,671 tU in 2020, which is 5% less than in 2019 (3,871 tU). Uzbekistan’s state-controlled mining company Navoi, one of the world’s largest producers of gold and uranium, produced 3,500 tU in 2020, unchanged from 2019. Navoi uses in-situ recovery mining method to produce uranium at its

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Oct 21, 2021 The mining process called in-situ leaching, or ISL, which the World Nuclear Association stated on its website that 57% of the world uranium was mined using the technique

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Oct 31, 2021 This is the story told through the documentary, “However Wide the Sky: Places of Power.” ... Meanwhile, Mount Taylor tells of the use of law

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Nov 12, 2013 Uranium mining, a hot issue facing the Virginia General Assembly, gets scathing treatment in Hot Water, a new documentary film making a three-city tour across the state this week

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Jun 05, 2008 Uranium movie makes comeback. Radioactive uranium tailings at Elliot Lake. One of my first films, released 18 years ago, was Uranium, about the radioactive wastes from uranium mining on aboriginal lands in Canada. Not a very exciting title, and there was a reason for it. Faced with intense pressure from the uranium mining industry, the NFB sent

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Mar 19, 2011 This 2009 documentary visits the Uranium mining industry in Australia, one of the largest Uranium-producing nations on the planet. If you've ever wondered how

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Oct 24, 2013 This documentary looks at the hazards of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose environmental threats while the traditional economic and

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