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There are at least 302 鈥渙rphan sites鈥� in New Mexico, where 鈥渒nown or suspected contamination is causing a threat to human health or the environment,鈥� according to the New Mexico Environment Department.

Across New Mexico, there are over 15,000 areas where abandoned coal mining equipment, facilities, and legacy mine shafts continue to pose serious health, safety, and environmental hazards to rural and urban communities.

At the State of the Union Thursday evening there will be two special guests of New Mexico Congressional members whose presence is designed to get federal compensation for those injured by nuclear weapons production.

On this episode Associate Professor Myrriah Gomez talks about her book 鈥淣uclear Nuevo M茅xico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.鈥�

The Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last week and for the first time, it also approved an amendment that expands the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. This could have a profound impact on people who lived near the site of the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion, which took place in southern New Mexico. They have been excluded from compensation, as have uranium miners who did work after 1971. Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinder Consortium, spoke with 九色网 the day after the Senate vote.

On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of 鈥淟and of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry.鈥�

As the U.S. prepared to detonate the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in the 鈥�40s, the federal government sought uranium on Navajo land. Decades later,鈥�