Energy Fuels, a Colorado-based business that owns the White Mesa Mill in Utah’s stunningly beautiful San Juan County, wants us to let a Canadian company, with operations in Estonia, ship hundreds of tons of the uranium-containing byproduct of their rare earth mineral processing operations to the mill site 5,000 miles away and just a few miles from Ute Mountain Ute tribal lands.
Estonia won’t approve a site to dispose of it in-country and the processing operations can’t resume until they move it off-site. But this waste is not Utah’s product and it’s not Utah’s problem...