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KANO, Nigeria (AFP) — Radioactive materials in abandoned mining fields in central Nigeria's Plateau state pose a serious health hazard to two million people, officials said Saturday. "Around two million people now live and farm close to the mines, which means they are all at risk from the harmful effects of the radioactive emissions from the mining fields," Plateau environment commissioner Nankim Bagudu told AFP.
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The cost of hauling away the Moab tailings by 2019 could exceed $1 billion, according to the latest estimate by the U.S. Energy Department, the agency managing the cleanup.
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WASHINGTON — The Energy Department estimates it could cost up to $1 billion to clean up the uranium mill tailings in Moab by 2019, based on an anticipated report issued to Congress late Tuesday. The 2019 deadline gets the project done faster than the 2028 deadline the department submitted to Congress last year but is still way beyond the 2012 deadline initially proposed when the department took over the project.
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Balloons representing more than 500 local residents who have battled cancer in recent years were released after a presentation by the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) about cancer rates in the Monticello area.
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MOAB - A show of hands at the community center here confirmed Bette Stanton's view: The best way to haul the massive Atlas Corp. uranium tailings pile out of town is not by truck but by rail. "There's something about contaminated trucks on the highway that scares people," said Stanton, who has spent about 30 years in the redrock tourist town, which was a hot spot for a uranium boom about 50 years ago.
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Officials of the U.S. Energy Department toured the Atlas tailings cleanup site near Moab last week as deliberations continued on whether trucks or trains should be used to haul away the massive uranium waste pile. “Their number one priority is the safety of our community, which we support, of course” said Joette Langianese, a Grand County Council member who met with Energy Department officials.
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