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The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history: July 16, 1979, Navajo Reservation

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Today, July 16th, 2009, is the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., U.S. Nuclear's earthen dam burst and 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water burst through United Nuclear's earthen dam, into the Rio Puerco, at a uranium mine in Church Rock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Reservation.

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