Uranium Mining and Milling

Uranium Cleanup Faces Delay-- Moab Decontamination Could Take 20 Years
9 February 2007

DESERT MINING NEWS (WASHINGTON) — The Energy Department's new 2028 completion date to clean up uranium-mill tailings in Moab shocked Rep. Jim Matheson at an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Thursday.

Matheson asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman about the project's status and why the department has a pending request for a contractor to move only 2.5 million tons of waste over five years.
The project, as approved by Congress, is to move the 16 million tons of uranium mill tailings from a pile near the Colorado River, north of Moab, to a location near Grand Junction, Colo.
Bodman told Matheson that the department has made the decision to move the tailings pile, but the project is expected to take 20 years, with completion in 2028.
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