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...weekend of April 27-29, 1979 marked a turning point in Indian resistance, and may even herald the beginning of the end for the source of the nuclear fuel cycle. On those dates, thousands of Navajo and Pueblo Indians--joined by Chicano and Anglo supporters--physically and spiritually protested uranium mining on native lands. The demonstration occurred at Mt. Taylor, N.M., a sacred mountain to local natives and the site of a Gulf Oil-owned underground uranium mine--the deepest of its kind in the world. Beyond the implications of bringing 100 million pounds of uranium from deep within...
Speakers at the conference included local, national and international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these...
...reactor's normal operating temperatures of about 315° C (600° F) is as simple as the binary code of the computer that does most of the work. Control rods are automatically dropped into the fuel core, which in effect douses its nuclear fires by stopping the fissioning of uranium atoms. Within several hours the temperature drops to 140° C (280° F). Then fresh coolant water is pumped through the reactor's heat exchanger (or steam generator) until the reactor's temperature dwindles to a still warm 65° C (150° F)-about as "cold" as an operational reactor ever gets...
...last three weeks the Corporation has voted in favor of shareholder resolutions calling on the Timken Company to withdraw from South Africa, urging Phillips Petroleum to implement the Sullivan Principles and requesting that Exxon not expand into uranium mining in South Africa--all on the recommendation of the ACSR...
...increase oil production. The evidence now available suggests that oil companies are not reinvesting their money in oil. They have seen the future, and it is not petroleum. The oil companies are buying up as many other energy sources as they can find, such as coal fields and uranium mines. Decontrol will give them the resources to control our energy future--a happy prospect. And much of the huge 1973-74 oil profits went into unrelated industries. For example, Atlantic Richfield bought The London Observer and Mobil paid cash for Montgomery Ward...