The dirty history of nuclear power.

From: E | Date: February 1, 1994| Author: Beasley, Conger, Jr. | Copyright information

Native Americans for a Clean Environment was founded in 1985 to address hazardous waste pollution and industrial safety violations of Kerr McGee's Sequoyah Fuels Plant in Gore, OK. Excessive hazardous waste disposal, airborne discharges and uranium spills occurred from 1970-1993.

The Sequoyah Fuels plant looked like an ordinary factory on the Oklahoma prairie. But it processed radioactive uranium with little regard for its workers or the environment. Until local Cherokee people t...

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