Irene was not the first hurricane or major weather event to hit Virginia and it won’t be the last.
Check out this map developed by the Southern Environmental Law Center showing the eye of hurricanes over the last 100 years in Virginia.
Uranium mining in the United States has typically been done in drier climates in states like New Mexico and Arizona. Hurricane Irene dumped as much as 13” of rain in parts of Virginia.
Major rainfall events, such as this, risk overwhelming uranium mining and processing operations and causing radioactive waste to contaminate downstream water supplies.
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