An opportunity to make life a little better was how the Navajo people perceived the uranium mining boom that started in the 1950s. But from the perspective of the nuclear industry, native Indian lands were the perfect landscape for setting up hazardous waste treatment facilities.The sovereign status of Indian reservations exempts them from state and local regulatory laws1.
Trashing the Navajo Nation with Nuclear Waste
An opportunity to make life a little better was how the Navajo people perceived the uranium mining boom that started in the 1950s. But from the perspective of the nuclear industry, native Indian lands were the perfect landscape for setting up hazardous waste treatment facilities.The sovereign status of Indian reservations exempts them from state and local regulatory laws1.