Draft2:Uranium Reduction Company
Template:Private company The Uranium Reduction Company built the in 1956 and operated it until 1962, when the assets were sold to Atlas Minerals Corporation. Uranium concentrate, the milling product, was sold to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) through December 1970. When Moab milling operations ceased in 1984, an unlined impoundment on the site contained an estimated 16 million tons of uranium mill tailings and tailings-contaminated soil leftover from processing uranium ore.
Atlas declared bankruptcy in 1998.
Company history with DOE
In 2001, congressional legislation allowed for the transfer of responsibility for the millsite to DOE. DOE has reclamation and long-term management responsibilities for the site, now known as EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project. The Moab UMTRA Project is relocating tailings and other contaminated materials from the Moab Site to an engineered disposal cell constructed near Crescent Junction, Utah. EM’s work scope also includes active remediation of groundwater at the Moab Site.
Related
External links
- https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/remembering-utahs-famous-geologist-decades-moab-cleanup
- Moab Museum
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