Virtual reality used to highlight uranium contamination

Gallup, N.M. • Activists are using virtual reality technology to focus on areas of the Navajo Nation affected by uranium contamination.The arts collective Bombshelltoe has collected 360-degree footage of Churchrock, N.M., to show how people and the land have changed since a 1979 uranium mill spill, Gallup Independent reports .The project started four years ago after Washington, D.C.-based nuclear policy program manager Lovely Umayam met Navajo activist Sunny Dooley at an event in Santa Fe."