Hundreds of tons of radioactive tailings could soon be knocking on the doorstep of southeastern Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument.
Energy Fuels Resources, which owns the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding and east of the monument, has applied to the State of Utah to amend its radioactive materials license in order to begin accepting radioactive tailings from a mill in Estonia. Currently, the mill is not allowed to accept waste from outside the United States.