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  • Mountain of mine waste may move after all

    The controversial pile of uranium tailings next to the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, may finally be moved.

    by Lisa Church, Jan 31, 2000

  • Uranium poisons Navajo neighborliness

    Local Navajos lead the fight against Hydro Resources Inc.'s plan to leach uranium from groundwater at three sites on or near the Navajo Reservation.

    by Cate Gilles, Sep 30, 1996

  • Uranium haunts the Colorado Plateau

    Hydro Resources, Inc. wants to open three new uranium mines near Crownpoint, N.M., but opponents on and off the nearby Navajo Reservation say the mines threaten groundwater and human health.

    by Andy Lenderman, Dec 06, 1999

  • Moab uranium tailings: should they stay or should they go?

    The Energy Department is calling for public comment on its plans to clean up a 130-acre pile of uranium tailings and contaminated soils just upstream from Moab, Utah, on the Colorado River

    by Deanna Belch, Dec 20, 2004

  • Colorado River kisses a toxic mess good-bye

    The Department of Energy finally agrees to move the Atlas uranium mine tailings pile away from Moab, Utah, and the flood risk of the Colorado River.

    by Matt Jenkins, May 02, 2005

  • Uranium miners go back underground

    With prices rising and government support, uranium mining is booming in western Colorado

    by J.M. McCord, Jun 13, 2005

  • Navajos put more than 17 million acres off-limits

    The Navajo Nation has banned uranium mining on the reservation, but that may not stop an already-approved mining project

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 13, 2005

  • Underground movement

    In northern Colorado, ranchette owners are scrambling to fight a proposal for uranium mining.

    by Jodi Peterson, Oct 01, 2007

  • Reborn

    With global warming an increasing threat, some are urging a return to nuclear energy, but the industry’s own checkered past reminds us that a nuclear renaissance will be neither easy nor cheap

    by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 04, 2006

  • HCN's secret past

    High Country News reveals its odd historical connection with the West’s uranium obsession of the 1950s

    by Paul Larmer, Sep 04, 2006
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