Is Utah’s uranium industry key to a green energy future or a radioactive threat?
High uranium prices and new rare earth production capabilities at the White Mesa Mill could revive the aging facility in San Juan County.
(Courtesy of Energy Fuels) Guests tour the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County, which produces uranium, vanadium and rare earth minerals. Sept. 16, 2021.
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.