Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns
Health Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns August 12, 20265:00 AM ET From By Melissa Bailey The White Mesa Mill's radioactive waste is stored in five tailings cells, which occupy 284 acres of land in Blanding, Utah, as shown overhead from a plane on March 22. EcoFlight hide caption toggle caption EcoFlight WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road. He drove past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute.
- ▪Health Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns August 12, 20265:00 AM ET From By Melissa Bailey The White Mesa Mill's radioactive waste is stored in five tailings cells, which occupy 284 acres of land in Blandi
- ▪EcoFlight hide caption toggle caption EcoFlight WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road.
- ▪He drove past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute.
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Health Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns August 12, 20265:00 AM ET From By Melissa Bailey The White Mesa Mill's radioactive waste is stored in five tailings cells, which occupy 284 acres of land in Blanding, Utah, as shown overhead from a plane on March 22. EcoFlight hide caption toggle caption EcoFlight WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road. He drove past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation's only remaining conventional uranium mill, which produces yellowcake for nuclear power fuel.
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