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cgrubb on Jan 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It Ma...

I think this is the mine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Ranch-Highland

This is the process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-situ_leaching#Uranium

Hard to evaluate how serious the problem is without knowing how toxic and radioactive the waste is and how large the underground aquifers are.

cgrubb on Jan 31, 2014 [–]

Having read up more on this, it looks like there are 2 active uranium mines in AZ, and one in each of NE, UT, WY. Industry people seem to think leaching is the cleanest way to mine uranium. Older techniques created radioactive dust.

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