When history repeats

On nuke waste dumps and Power Madness in Indigenous Country

White Mesa Mill (with Mesa Verde and Ute Mountain) from within Bears Ears National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

THE HISTORY: In the 1980s, a site on the edge of Canyonlands National Park was a main candidate to become the nation’s nuclear waste dump.

THE REPEAT: Over the last few years, Energy Fuels has been reprocessing nuclear waste from aroun…