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Environmental groups, Ute Tribe worried about radon emissions from uranium mill ask state to intervene

Radon emissions from evaporation ponds at a southeast Utah uranium mill could be soaring past federal thresholds designed to protect the environment from the odorless, cancer-causing gas, environmental groups claimed Wednesday. In separate calculations, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the groups Uranium Watch and Grand Canyon Trust estimated emission levels of radon-222 at the White Mesa Uranium Mill are 50 to 100 times the standard set under the federal Clear Air Act. To determine the emissions...

 

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