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PARADOX VALLEY – While Energy Fuels Inc. continues toward its application process to build the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley, an effort to save the valley from the mill is already underway.
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Trace amounts of plutonium were potentially washed into Boulder's wastewater system from two locations at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after a June 9 plutonium leak, federal and Boulder city officials said Wednesday.
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A southeast Colorado lawmaker Wednesday said he has evidence of uranium in Pinon Canyon, the vast Fort Carson training area where a wildfire is burning. Rep. Wes McKinley, D- Walsh, said at a news conference he collected seven soil, water and plant samples during a tour of the area conducted by the Army in May 2007 and had them analyzed by an independent lab.
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The town of Ault joined the long list of opposition against a proposed uranium mine Tuesday. At it's meeting Tuesday, Ault's town board passed a resolution opposing any uranium mining in northern Colorado. Powertech Uranium Corp., a Canadian-based company, owns the mineral rights to more than 5,700 acres of land in Weld County near Nunn and wants to mine for the mineral. Ault Mayor Brad Bayne said the board heard presentations Tuesday from Powertech and Coloradans Against Resource Destruction -- a group that opposes uranium mining in the area.
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Twenty-two workers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology underwent decontamination procedures for plutonium exposure Monday. One-quarter of a gram of powder containing non-weapons- grade plutonium spilled when a vial cracked during an experiment.
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A spill of radioactive material a congressman deemed "a matter of deep concern" prompted three rooms to be sealed at a Boulder laboratory and 22 employees to be monitored for radiation.
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BOULDER — A cracked vial spilled a few particles of radioactive powder at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder on Monday, briefly quarantining 22 people and forcing two labs to be sealed off. The plutonium-laced powder was found on the shoes and some clothing of most of the people. Two staff members had trace contamination on their hands, and trace contamination was found in a nearby hallway and a small office area.
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The radioactive remnants of Colorado's single attempt to generate power from a nuclear reactor are locked up in dry casks - 244, to be precise. Buried in layers of concrete and steel designed to withstand a jetliner crash, each cylindrical cask holds six nuclear rods - spent fuel that was used to fire the state's only nuclear power plant, the Fort St. Vrain plant near Platte ville, before faltering mechanics led to its shutdown in 1989.
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TELLURIDE – With plans for a uranium mine in Paradox Valley looming on the horizon, the San Miguel County Commissioners gave the go-ahead to the Cyprus Amax Minerals Company to perform voluntary remedial cleanup work of radioactive material at the former Newmire Vanadium Mill site on Highway 145 near Silver Pick Road.
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Debbie Chisholm Kerr has no illusions about her share of the $926 million a judge ordered former Rocky Flats contractors to pay neighbors of the long-defunct nuclear weapons plant. "We'll be lucky if we ever see it," Kerr said Tuesday. "I'm realistic. If you got a dollar you'd be lucky. You don't count on it." Kerr is among 13,000 current and former property owners due east of Rocky Flats whose land was polluted by radioactive soil that blew from the plant, where nuclear weapons were manufactured for more than 45 years. Federal District Court Judge John L. Kane ruled Monday that two companies, Rockwell International Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., owe residents nearly $726 million in compensation. Kane also hit the firms with some $200 million in punitive damages.
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Posted: 8:24 AM- MOAB - The U.S. Department of Energy wants to hear public opinion about the best way to move 16 million tons of uranium tailings. The agency is deciding whether the tailings should be taken by truck or by train 30 miles from a pile outside Moab to a more permanent repository at Crescent Junction.
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DENVER (AP) — Two companies that worked as contractors with the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed that contamination blown from the facility endangered people's health and devalued their property. A federal judge on Monday ordered Dow Chemical Co. to pay $653 million and the former Rockwell International Corp. $508 million in compensatory damages, but capped the amount to be collected at $725 million.
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NORWOOD – The San Miguel County Commissioners and approximately 40 members of the public had their first eye-opening glimpse of the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley in the West End of Montrose County. The mine could come online as soon as 2010.
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Norwood, Colo - Energy Fuels Resources, a company proposing a uranium mill project in Paradox Valley, didn’t have to come to the people of San Miguel County to present its plans. And after taking barbed questions and angry comments for an hour and a half on Wednesday, it may have wished they hadn’t. The company hopes to build the mill on 880 private acres between Naturita and Paradox, in Montrose County
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Colorado's quarter-century-long legal tussle over groundwater pollution at the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal ended Thursday with the announcement of a historic $35 million settlement. Shell Oil Co. and the U.S. Army — which produced all manner of chemicals from 1942 to 1982 at the arsenal, northeast of downtown Denver — have agreed to pay the state $35 million in damages for polluting groundwater at the site, state Attorney General John Suthers said Thursday.
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DENVER (AP) - Colorado will get $35 million to help clean up and restore a former nerve gas and chemical manufacturing site near Denver that was deemed among the most polluted in the country. Shell Oil Co., which made pesticides and other chemicals at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, will provide $21 million in cash and land under an agreement announced Thursday to settle a 25-year-old state lawsuit. The Army and federal government will provide the rest.
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CAÑON CITY - An eighthour hearing Tuesday wasn't long enough for Fremont County commissioners to rule on a request to drill for uranium in the northwest part of the county. After hearing comments from more than 70 people, the board delayed a vote until June 9 on the permit request by Australia-based Black Range Minerals.
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Gov. Bill Ritter signed a uranium bill into law Tuesday morning that proponents say protects Colorado’s groundwater from pollution by uranium mining practices. The bill — HB 1161— was sponsored by Fort Collins legislators Reps. Randy Fischer and John Kefalas, both Democrats and requires assurances from uranium mining companies that they will clean groundwater to pre-mining quality once they finish the mining.
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Little about the history of the Rocky Flats nuclear trigger plant engenders the trust of Coloradans. From its secretive Cold War era roots, to suppressed reports about contamination, to a stifled grand jury investigating environmental crimes, there remains a lingering suspicion that we still don't know everything about the former plant.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A uranium mining company contends a U.S Environmental Protection Agency ruling is stalling its plans to begin operations in northwest New Mexico. The EPA ruled last year that a 160-acre parcel near Church Rock is part of a dependent Indian community, therefore requiring that Hydro Resources Inc. obtain an underground injection control permit with the EPA, not the state of New Mexico.
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