Uranium transport to Utah across Navajo Nation will resume

No uranium-specific emergency plan exists for Navajo Nation as shipments loom
The Navajo Nation lacks uranium-specific emergency plans as multiple agencies struggle to coordinate response for nuclear shipments.
Uranium transport to Utah across the Navajo Nation will resume after agreement struck with tribe
The Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels Inc., the owner of the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, have reached an agreement for the future transport of uranium ore across the reservation into Utah.
Navajo Nation reaches agreement with mining company over uranium ore transport
The agreement comes nearly six months after Energy Fuels, Inc., voluntarily halted transportation following the company’s first transport through the Navajo Nation with little notice to the tribe
Shipments of uranium ore can resume under agreement reached with the Navajo Nation
Shipments of uranium ore from a revived mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with the mining company, clearing the way for trucks to transport the ore across the largest Native American reservation in the U.
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Holder: Pinyon Plain, the uranium mine that produced the ore at the heart of this standoff, sits a few miles from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Bloomberg's Jacob Lorinc went to see it.
Uranium shipments to resume in protected Grand Canyon areas after Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels finalize deal
Despite a federal ruling rejecting a motion to remove protections on land in near the Grand Canyon, an agreement between Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels will allow the company to resume uranium mining and shipments in February.
Uranium ore shipments will resume after Navajo Nation, Energy Fuels reach agreement
The agreement that will allow the mining company to ship ore from its mine near the Grand Canyon to a mill in Utah.
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Representatives from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe expressed concern after Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels officials reached an accord on transport of uranium ore.
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