[New post] White Mesa uranium mill – its owners want to accept radioactive trash from Estonia – 1000s of miles away !
Christina Macpherson posted: " Over the past 40 years, the construction of the mill demolishedarchaeological and burial sites important to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe anddepleted the tribe's traditional hunting grounds, destroying places wherepeople once gathered plants for basketr"
Over the past 40 years, the construction of the mill demolished archaeological and burial sites important to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and depleted the tribe's traditional hunting grounds, destroying places where people once gathered plants for basketry and medicine.
Radioactive waste has been spilled along the main highway from trucks hauling material from Wyoming to White Mesa for processing. The children can no longer play outside because of the stench and the fear of what might be causing it. The mill sits in the heart of San Juan County, a few miles east of the original boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, with Canyonlands National Park to the north and Monument Valley to the southeast.
It opened in 1980 to process uranium ore from the Colorado Plateau into yellowcake, a concentrated powder used in energy production and nuclear weapons. Most uranium mines closed in the last half-century. But White Mesa not only remains open, it has become a destination for radioactive material from around the world. Now, its owners want to accept waste from the Northern European country of Estonia, nearly 5,000 miles away.
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