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Moab Uranium Tailings

USA / Utah / Moab /
 tailings, nuclear waste storage
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The Department of Energy's UMTRA project is moving these uranium tailings to a permanent disposal site at Crescent Junction. Rail shipments of tailings began in April 2009.
More info here: gj.em.doe.gov/moab/ .

Photo taken from Highway 279, looking east: www.pbase.com/listorama/image/59893774/large .
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Coordinates:   38°35'59"N   109°35'41"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago