This Vice article shares Larry King’s story of discovering growing cracks in the Church Rock Uranium Mill tailings dam on the Navajo Nation. Soon after, the dam broke, releasing 94 million gallons of radioactive water into the Rio Puerco. This spill remains the largest single accidental radioactive release in US history.
Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill: Larry King and others
“Navajo residents say they have not been given the attention given to other victims of nuclear accidents, even as they remain under the catastrophe’s long shadow, dealing with poisoned livestock and ongoing health problems amid other aftereffects. ‘We have never been a priority,’ said King. ‘Forty years after the spill and nothing has been done.’”
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