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Cameco Crow Butte ISL Uranium Mine in Nebraska aka CBR

“It is believed there is a relationship between the ninety-eight (98) closed wells on the Western side of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and certain incidences of cancer, kidney disease, birth defects, miscarriages and infant brain seizures on the Reservation which is downwind and downstream of CBR’s existing ISL mining operation. Under the doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitor, the burden of proof shifts to CBR to show that its operations have no causal connection to the contamination of the Pine Ridge water wells or the diseases of the people who drank and bathed in that water.” ML073370202 http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0733/ML073370202.pdf [Note that of four water samples tested in 2009, two in Crawford, Nebraska and two at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, there were illegal amounts of radioactive alpha emitters and arsenic.(1)]

The following, dated May 12, 2015, was submitted to the…