Crescent Junction, Utah ― The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project conducted a multi-agency response exercise at its Crescent Junction disposal cell site on December 2, 2024.
Students from the University of Utah’s American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Section recently toured the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project sites.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management's (EM) Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project has achieved another cleanup milestone by safely shipping millions of tons of uranium mill tailings from the Moab, Utah site.
The Moab Site is located about 3 miles northwest of the city of Moab in Grand County, Utah, and encompasses approximately 480 acres, of which about 130 acres are covered by a uranium mill tailings pile. In 1956, the Uranium Reduction Company constructed the Moab mill and operated it until 1962 when the assets were sold to Atlas Minerals Corporation.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project has achieved another cleanup milestone by safely shipping millions of tons of uranium mill tailings from the Moab, Utah, site.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project recently incorporated additional railcars making it possible to increase the number of intermodal containers on each train shipment.