DW Close Up - Uranium - A Toxic Legacy November 12, 2018
The grand canyon an awesome spectacle of nature with a poisoned human legacy uranium mining here during the cold war has left a long term impact on the health of the local population. We used to have the largest birthrate in the nation and now we find we have the highest birth defect. And now there are fears that the Trump Administration could end the moratorium on uranium mining near the grand canyon. Environmental activists here fear the worst one second Salmon Nation happens theres no way to take it that. Cold war uranium mining also left a toxic legacy in germany communities in what was co...