Moab uranium tailing cleanup still going after 13 years
Moab uranium tailing cleanup still going after 13 years waterdesk.org and last updated 2021-05-12 20:07:10-04 MOAB, Utah â Before Moab was a Mecca for outdoor recreation in Utah, it was the hub of cold war uranium mining; and in the rush to process the ore for nuclear weapons, officials made a terrible decision we're still paying for. That decision made in 1956 was to build a uranium processing mill along the banks of the most important river in the American Southwest: the Colorado River. "When they established a mill, there wasn't very much thought given to protecting the river," said R...
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