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The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

The Utah mill has long concerned a tribal community next door. They hope a new health study will answer their questions. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick," a tribal member says.

Utah says the White Mesa Mill isn’t contaminating groundwater, but its neighbor, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, disagrees.

In December 2020, Indigenous advocates and allies from around the world joined a virtual town hall on the last operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. The White Mesa uranium mill sits on the doorstep of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, just a few miles up the road from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s White Mesa community, and has been flying under the radar as a de facto dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste for decades.   The town hall, called “Indigenous Pe...

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Indigenous activists speak out against plans to import radioactive material to southeast Utah Zak Podmore © Corey Robinson (Corey Robinson | Tribune file photo) Protesters gather in White Mesa, Utah, on May 14, 2017, for a protest march against the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the United States. When locations were chosen more than half a century ago for the dozens of uranium mills that dot the Four Corners landscape, one common facto...