DOE Marks a Milestone at Moab Cleanup Site

Dan Bammes — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:15:05 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy says it’s moved six million tons of uranium mill tailings off the old Atlas mill site in Moab. That’s 38-percent of the total, with about ten million tons still to go.

Workers on the site take three months off every winter, but project director Don Metzler says President Obama has proposed an increase in funding to keep them working longer.

International Visitors Look at Moab Tailings Cleanup

Dan Bammes — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:35:40 +0000

Millions of people across the West depend on the Colorado River for drinking water and irrigation, and that's what's made cleaning up the site of an old uranium mill in southern Utah a high-priority project. Many other countries have the same concern. Their representatives got a close-up look last week at how the United States is handling that project.