Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
Posted: 29th September 2025
An old uranium mine in New Mexico needs cleaning up, but a plan to dump some of the resulting waste in a public landfill has the Navajo community worried, especially by attempts to divide the tribe, writes Kathy Helms.
More divide and conquer?
The Quivira uranium mine is overdue for cleanup, something the local Navajo community has been advocating for decades. But plans to truck waste from the mine through other Native communities and dump it in a landfill are “unacceptable”, tribal members say. They are also asking authorities to deliver information in accessible language, including their own, seeing the failure to do so as deliberate obfuscation to railroad the plans without local understanding or consent. READ MORE
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