About 660 metric tons of radioactive material from Estonia traveled to a mill in southeast Utah last year, according to state inspection reports. natecarlisle
The state of Utah had approved the shipments to the mill, sitting on U.S. Highway 191 between Blanding and White Mesa. The latter is a community belonging to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.“We don't ever get notification on what is being trucked to the mill,” said Scott Clow, the environmental programs director for the tribe, “which is a concern.”
The plant processes niobium and tantalum — metals found in cell phones and other electronics. Uranium is found in the byproducts. Only a fraction of the waste contains uranium, but at 660 metric tons of byproduct, Energy Fuels workers have plenty of material to sort through. Peterson worries about precedents being set. The Estonia shipments were the mill’s first from Europe. It already has been approved to receive uranium-bearing ore from Japan.
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