Amber Reimondo: Taxpayer dollars shouldnât keep uranium mill afloat
A strategic uranium reserve has no place in Joe Bidenâs Build Back Better agenda.
(Corey Robinson | Tribune file photo) Protesters from White Mesa, Utah, march against the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the U.S. on May 14, 2017.
By Amber Reimondo | Special to The Tribune
  | March 10, 2021, 4:56 p.m.
In late December, as Congress debated how much to spend on COVID-19 relief for Americans struggling to make ends meet, something else was flying under the radar that has serious implications for Utahâs clean water and public health.
Can the White Mesa uranium mill shake southern Utah’s radioactive past?
Regulations on uranium mining and milling have grown far more stringent over the last 40 years, but opposition remains strong.
(Courtesy of Dom Smith | EcoFlight) Energy Fuels White Mesa Mill near Blanding, Utah, is the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the United States.
| Jan. 30, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
San Juan County • When Mark Chalmers began working in the uranium industry in the 1970s, robust regulations on radioactive material were just starting to emerge in the United States.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was established in 1975 after its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission, failed to protect workers and the environment from harmful radiation.