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A lake of mud replete with residue from uranium processing. the team carefully dries out the land to one section at a time. they use what are called weak drains to remove the water from the underground lake so far theyve laid around seven and a half thousand kilometers of the artificial textile casing. to ensure the water flows off along the wick drains the mud is squeezed in similar style to a sponge. layer upon layer of sand gravel and mineral soil other than piled on top of the mud. the work ...

And the navajo are far from the only native people to face a similar situation an estimated seventy percent of the worlds uranium deposits are located on indigenous lands. activist vanessa brown is one of the many navajos to have lost family members to cancer. for decades shes been fighting for change. to our nation the navajo nation used to have the largest birthrate. in the nation and now we find we have the highest defect and a lot of it is due to. the strip mining of these these elements tha...

Nuclear threat from north korea. even putting aside these reports about the intelligence material theres also commercial satellite imagery showing activity going on at these north korean sites related to uranium processing and the missile facilities so does this administration believe that there is no longer a nuclear threat? also, john bolton yesterday on "face the nation" said that the overwhelming bulk of the program could be dismantled within a year while experts say it could take ten to 15 ...

About the intelligence material. theres also commercial satellite imagery showing activity going on at these north korean sites related to uranium processing as well as the missile facility. so does this administration believe that theres no longer a nuclear threat and also john button on "face the nation" said the bulk of the program could be dismantled in a year and experts say 10 to 15 years. can you clarify on that? >> we continue to make progress. as i said, the secretary of state will be t...

Way through and fully expected to be arrested on the spot. instead, they went on for nearly a mile, cutting through three more fences, breeching what was supposed to be the most tightly secured uranium processing and storage facility in the country. at any particular time did you think maybe weve gone too far? >> when we got to the very high security fence where there is a lethal force authorized, we got to this high-tech fence that we were not going to get through it. and i thought maybe we sho...