The History of Uranium Mining and the Navajo People

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ID11037907
AutoresDoug Brugge (0000-0002-6812-2720, Doug Brugge is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass. Rob Goble is with the Center for Technology, Environment, and Development, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.), Rob Goble (0000-0001-6571-5996, Doug Brugge is with the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass. Rob Goble is with the Center for Technology, Environment, and Development, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.)
Año2002
Volumen92
Número9
Páginas1410-1419
Fecha de publicación2002-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.92.9.1410
PMID12197966
OpenAlexW2147249348
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37
Referencias citadas21

From World War II until 1971, the government was the sole purchaser of uranium ore in the United States. Uranium mining occurred mostly in the southwestern United States and drew many Native Americans and others into work in the mines and mills. Despite a long and well-developed understanding, based on the European experience earlier in the century, that uranium mining led to high rates of lung cancer, few protections were provided for US miners before 1962 and their adoption after that time was slow and incomplete. The resulting high rates of illness among miners led in 1990 to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

Environmental health · Government (linguistics) · Navajo · Political science · Uranium · Uranium mine · Uranium mining · Uranium ore · Work (physics) · Engineering · Medicine · Radiation Dose and Imaging · Radioactive contamination and transfer · Radioactivity and Radon Measurements