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Slow poison from USA’s 10,000 abandoned uranium mines

Clean Up “America’s Secret Fukushima”, The US Abandoned Uranium Mines (AUMs), Global Research, By Margaret Flowers 23 April 14 National Campaign. Earth Day Actions at Mt. Rushmore & Cheyenne River Expose Toxic Threats Red Shirt Village, Oglala Lakota Nation (SOUTH DAKOTA) –  Organizations from throughout the United States held an Earth Day ceremony to launch a nation-wide campaign to clean up hazardous abandoned uranium mines (AUMs). Clean Up The Mines! calls for effective and complete eradication of the contamination caused by the estimated 10,000 abandoned uranium mines that are silently poisoning extensive areas of the U.S.

Clean Up The Mines! volunteers from across the country toured abandoned mines this week. They donned hazardous materials suits at Mount Rushmore and carried a large banner to raise awareness of the 169 AUMs in the Southwestern Black Hills near Edgemont. There are another 103 AUMS in the Northwest corner near Buffalo. The Northern Great Plains Region of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota contains more than 3,000 AUMs……http://www.globalresearch.ca/clean-up-americas-secret-fukushima/5378869

April 25, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Uranium, USA