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milling NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Tailings spill shuts down EnergySolutions project until Tuesday
Oct 19, 2009
Deseret News
A truck carrying uranium mill tailings from a Moab cleanup project headed by EnergySolutions tipped over and spilled some of the radioactive dirt last Wednesday. The multimillion-dollar cleanup project directed at properly disposing of the 16 million tons of uranium tailings was suspended until Tuesday for a safety evaluation, EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker said. "Safety is always our first priority," Walker said. "It's a self-imposed shutdown." Stimulus accelerates tailings removal
Jul 20, 2009
Deseret News
A new report by the Department of Energy on the Moab tailings project says an average of 12,000 tons of contaminated dirt are being shipped to a nearby disposal site each week and by late June, more than 100,000 tons have been removed. Tons of tainted tailings are on the move -- finally
May 06, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
Uranium waste » Ceremony launches years of 30-mile trips with truckloads of uranium-processing wasteMoab » For Grand County residents who lobbied Washington for years to remove tons of tainted tailings from the banks of the Colorado River, it was a long haul. Finally — radioactive waste leaving Moab
May 06, 2009
Deseret News
MOAB — Joette Langianese stood on a man-made hillside overlooking the expanse of the Colorado River, near a huge crane lifting a rail car and said the sight was so pleasing she nearly cried. It was this equipment, these winding roads carved up the hillside and the trucks moving huge mounds of radioactive dirt that evoked such emotion. |
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