A view of the Moab uranium mill tailings pile. Uranium ore was mined in significant quantities in the U.S. for more than 40 years. Mill tailings …

There are opponents to the GJDS, as well — such as Grand Junction resident Janet Johnson, who would rather see the radioactive waste trucked to Crescent Junction, Utah, where the DOE built a disposal cell to accept tailings from Moab's former Atlas uranium mill site. A huge tailings pile lies next to the Colorado River in Moab.

Moab's toxic uranium legacy is slowly – and carefully - being shipped awayfrom the banks of the Colorado River. KZMU's Molly Marcello has more.There's a… KZMU: Moab Celebrates Removal of 10 Million Tons of Toxic Uranium Tailings

The Moab Tailings Project Site is located in northern Moab Valley northwest of Moab in Grand County, Utah, and includes the former Atlas Minerals Corporation (Atlas) uranium-ore processing facility. The site is situated on the west bank of the Colorado River …

In a park, nestled in a red rock canyon outside Moab, Utah -- a short drive from a giant pile of uranium tailings -- a crowd gathered for a celebration.

The project includes relocation of the estimated 16-million-ton pile of uranium mill tailings and other contaminated material near the Colorado River to an engineered disposal cell constructed 30 miles north near Crescent Junction, Utah. Watch the video above to learn more about the Moab Project. Field Manager

And since the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) project began in 2009, how has the federally-funded team handled water contamination? "For these four native fish, this section of the river is a suitable habitat for brood rearing," said Tony Mancuso, a river manager for the Utah Department of Natural Resources, referring to the ...

The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action site – better known to locals simply as the Moab Pile – is a leftover from the town's Cold War uranium days, when the Moab was dubbed the 'uranium capital of the world.'

The Moab, Utah site in 2001 when DOE assumed ownership of a former uranium mill site. The Moab, Utah site in 2018, showing a dramatic reduction in the tailings pile. EM is also focused on its Crescent Junction Site. Project leaders are reevaluating the disposal cell cover's design to increase its long-term performance and reduce cost.

Remediating the Atlas property— an endeavor called the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) project—is the job of a second Russell, Russell McCallister, the DOE's cleanup director.

Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project, located in Moab, Utah. The Moab UMTRA site encompasses 435 acres, of which approximately 130 acres was covered by 16 million-tons of uranium mill tailings and associated mill demolition debris buried in the pile. Remediation activities and development of the infrastructure began in 2008.

responsibility for uranium mills from the AEC. The mill later became a Title II site under the Uranium Mill Tailings Act of 1978 (UMTRCA), an amendment to the AEA. In 1998 Atlas Corporation filed for bankruptcy. The NRC chose PricewaterhouseCoopers to take over the site as the trustee of the Moab Mill Reclamation Trust and the NRC licensee.

In a park, nestled in a red rock canyon outside Moab, Utah — a short drive from a giant pile of uranium tailings — a crowd gathered for a celebration. Elected officials and community members ...

This project is called the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project. Project Site Location The Moab Tailings Project Site is located approximately 3 miles northwest of Moab in Grand County, Utah, and includes the former Atlas Minerals Corporation (Atlas) uranium-ore processing facility.

Moab uranium mill tailings pile in 2010 Partially refined Yellowcake uranium oxide A Yellowcake boomtown is a town or community that rapidly increases in population and economics due to the discovery of uranium ore-bearing minerals, and the development of uranium mining, milling or enrichment activities.

The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action site – better known to locals as the Moab Pile – is a leftover from the town's Cold War uranium days. When the town's uranium boom went bust in the early 1980s, a 16-million-ton scar of toxic tailings was left sitting next to the river, just downstream from Arches National Park.

uranium mill tailings pile, in addition to historic river channel migration in the vicinity of the pile. Need: Concerned citizens of Moab and Grand County understood the uranium tailings pile (12 million tons) adjacent to the Colorado River posed a serious health hazard for residents, visitors, downstream water consumers, and endangered species.

The Moab uranium mill tailings remedial action site, better known to locals simply as the Moab pile is a leftover from the town's cold war. Speaker 2: 01:29 Uranium days when the towns uranium ...

Mill tailings are a sand-like material that remain from processing uranium ore. These tailings, the last largest pile of radioactive tailings to be removed in the country, are left over from Moab's heyday as processing center …

In a 7-2 vote passed on April 3, 1998, the Utah Radiation Control Board disagreed with the NRC approval of the apron design proposed by Atlas Corp. for its Moab uranium mill tailings pile. The apron is meant to protect the tailings pile from …

A decade of waste shipments reduces the tailings pile The scope of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project includes relocating mill tailings and other contaminated materials from a former uranium-ore processing facility in Moab, Utah, to an engineered disposal cell constructed near Crescent Junction, Utah.

MOAB — This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first rail shipment of radioactive tailings from the "Pile" near the banks of the Colorado River, with an estimated 9.5 million tons buried 30 miles away. The U.S. Department of Energy announced that roughly 6.5 million tons of the uranium mill tailings remain.

View the current Moab task orders posted to the Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) webpage (under the "About EMCBC" dropdown, hover over "Business Opportunities" > click " Prime Contracts ", and scroll down to "Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project") Search the official DOE website for DOE Orders.

(DBO) on Atlas Corporat5n's proposed reclamation of its uranium mill tailings pile near Moab, Utah. This revised DBO would supersede the DBO dated June 26,1997. The revised DBO would utilize information previously provided to FWS by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and by Atlas, as well as new information developed by Oak Ridge National

The tailings pile at the Atlas site near Moab Utah releases ammonia and other pollutants to the Colorado River through the groundwater pathway. Current releases may exceed standards for the protection of fish and fish larvae in the river. ... Atlas Uranium Mill Quality Sampling Results, Need January y, 1997, Utah DEQ Intensive Colorado River ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) project is located approximately 3miles northwest of the City of Moab, in Grand County, Utah,- and includes the former Atlas Minerals Corporation uranium-ore processing facility.

In April 2009, I was in Moab, Utah when the first mill tailings traindeparted the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action site. The train departed from a track running high along a ridge that overlooks the Moab Pile.

1984 - Atlas Corp. ceased operations at Moab, leaving both the mill and up to 16 million tons of uranium tailings and contaminated soil at the site. 1988 - When it became obvious that the mill would not operate again, Atlas Corp. began on-site remediation of …

What is that huge pile of dirt northwest of Moab? That "pile" consists of the mill tailings and tailings-contaminated materials left over from the uranium-ore processing operations that were conducted by Uranium Reduction Company and later …

An invasive weed called kochia could be introduced to the site of the former uranium ore processing facility three miles northwest of Moab as a long-term remediation plan to extract contaminants from the soil and prevent hazardous dust from blowing into town, said Russell McCallister during the Moab Tailings Steering Committee's quarterly meeting on …