Environmental and Cultural Injustice
The largest known Uranium deposit in the early 1900s was located on this tribes land.
Navajo
The planet that Uranium was named after.
What is Uranus?
The secretive nuclear engineering and research project conducted by the U.S. during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The umbrella term for radioactive waste products generated from nuclear technologies like nuclear power plants and weapons.
What is radwaste?
The application of logic and information to determine the risk associated with certain decisions.
What is risk assessment?
The condition that struck the Navajo uranium miners shortly after the mining boom.
Cancer
The process in which uranium nuclei are bombarded with neutrons, resulting in new particles called Barium atoms.
What is nuclear fission?
The first country to open a functioning nuclear power plant (1952).
What is the Soviet Union?
The method of storing large amounts of radwaste permanently in a geologically stable location deep underground.
What is deep-geological storage?
One of the most notable nuclear power plant disasters.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
The year that the law allowing uranium mining on native reserves was introduced.
1919
The couple that discovered radioactivity.
Who is Marie and Pierre Curie?
The spread of nuclear weapons technology to countries that did not previously possess it.
What is nuclear weapons proliferation?
The ability of an atom or element to undergo nuclear fission.
What is fissile?
A field of study dedicated to understanding the optimal way to present and convey risk-related information.
Navajo ranchers and their cattle were effected by this environmental impact of uranium mining.
Uranium-tainted water
What is Radium?
The proposed location of the deep-geological storage facility in 1982.
What is Yucca Mountain, Nevada?
A decay product of spent nuclear fuel that emits a particularly toxic form of radiation that physiologically behaves like calcium and thus causes bone cancer.
What is Strontium-90?
True of False: Nuclear power is a renewable source of energy.
False; while nuclear power is much cleaner than other sources of nonrenewable energies, Uranium is a finite, nonrenewable resource.
The amount of lung cancer present in Navajo miners in comparison to the national average.
56x the national average
The man that discovered Uranium
Who is Martin Klaproth?
Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, and Namibia account for this percent of uranium mining worldwide.
What is 75%?
The method of storing high-level radwaste that requires a constant input of energy and is thus temporary.
The sources of power that Germany had to resort to after shutting down all of their nuclear power plants.
What is coal and natural gas?