21-05-2025
Planning for uranium convention taking place Friday
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The City of Grand Junction was the center of the Manhattan Projects efforts to mine and refine uranium. Now, organizers are meeting Friday to discuss potential locations for a convention in hopes of passing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act into law.
Roxanna Bristow has resided in Colorado since 1957. Her father worked at a uranium mine in Uravan, a town once located north of Nucla off the 141.
Bristow says exposure to uranium causes 'lung cancer, COPD, silicosis, heart conditions, diabetes, bone conditions (and) a lot of birth defects.'
Bristow describes a moment as a girl she was invited to swim in the local pool.
'The time I was in Uravan or up above Uravan, there was a pool, and we were invited to swim in the pool, but the pool looked like mustard,' Bristow said. 'It was really yellow. So, I'm sure it had yellow cake in it.'
Bristow has teamed up with others to help get the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act into law.
They are meeting Friday morning all over the Grand Valley to discuss potential locations for a convention Sept. 12 and 13.
Bristow says the convention is a unified collaborative grassroots activism between the Navajo Nation, Colorado uranium workers and their families, the state, Native American tribes and federal agencies.
Bristow says anyone is invited.
'We invite people from all over the United States. If it's affected you, come!'
Contacts for the event are below.
Roxanna Bristow: (970) 201-3587
Gilbert: (505) 787-4140
Phil Harrison: (505) 635-5212
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