Refusing to Report on Church Rock, “the worst incident of radiation contamination in the history of the United States”

“Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"On July 16, 1979 any lingering illusions I had about corporate media were sandpapered out of me. Reports were coming in regarding a massive flood of liquid radioactive waste from a breached uranium mine tailings evaporation pond. A “state of the art” earthen dam had collapsed and a veritable avalanche of radioactive sludge, heavy metals, acids and other toxins was roaring down the Little Puerco River (Rio Puerco), right through the heart of the Navajo Nation."

https://nukewatchinfo.org/refusing-to-report-on-church-rock-the-worst-incident-of-radiation-contamination-in-the-history-of-the-united-states/