Once a bustling Soviet industrial hub producing uranium for atomic weapons, this community now sits atop one of Central Asia's most dangerous environmental disasters. The surrounding hillsides, ...

A total of 15 million tons of radioactive uranium tailings has been removed from the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action site. The U.S. Department of Energy, Moab leaders and community members ...

Deep in Kyrgyzstan, a former secret Soviet uranium town now lives under the shadow of a slow-moving radioactive disaster. Decades of neglect left 23 unstable tailings ponds, contaminated water, rising ...

Radioactive mill waste has largely been removed from the site, with remaining cleanup continuing toward a planned 2029 closure.

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial ...

Both Mesa County and the city of Grand Junction have expressed support for the continued operation of the Grand Junction uranium mill tailings disposal site, which is contingent on federal funding ...

An illustration titled 'What Radioactivity Is', with six panels' reading (top) 'Water in pond is 'stable,' it expends no energy,' water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,' 'as it runs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign identifies a repository near Edgemont where 4 million tons of radioactive tailings from a former uranium mill have been ...