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.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.