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Vacant, radioactive uranium mines dot Navajo reservation

In summer 2010, a Navajo cattle rancher named Larry Gordy stumbled upon an abandoned uranium mine in the middle of his grazing land and figured he had better call in the federal government. Engineers from the Environmental Protection Agency arrived a few months later, Geiger counters in hand, and found radioactivity levels that buried the needles on their equipment.

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  • Headline: Vacant, radioactive uranium mines dot Navajo reservation
  • Publication: Business, Pages 63 on 04/08/2012
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