HeyJaredMelissa Bailey
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A uranium revival brings new worries to tribal lands (opens the original)
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Tribal communities in the southwest are joining forces to fight an uptick in uranium mining and milling near their homelands. This comes as the U.S. wants to quadruple nuclear energy capacity and produce more of the uranium it needs domestically. That push is also reviving concerns, though, about the health effects of uranium mining. Melissa Bailey reports from our partner at KFF Health News. MALCOLM LEHI: Yeah. That's a uranium truck. MELISSA BAILEY, BYLINE: It's a hot day in April, and we're s
Nuclear power push ramps up uranium mill — and tribal health concerns (opens the original)
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WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road. He drove past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation's only remaining conventional uranium mill, which produces yellowcake for nuclear power fuel. For decades, the mill has sparked debate over whether radioactive contamination threatens h
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