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Uranium mine still poses risks – Juneau Empire

Uranium mine still poses risks Company ordered to continue treating water at Superfund site
By Kate Golden | JUNEAU EMPIRE November 12, 2008

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week ordered a mine company to keep treating water at a radioactive defunct open-pit uranium mine that’s now a Superfund site of national priority.

The Midnite Mine is on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington. About 350 acres were mined 100 miles north of Hanford, a former plutonium plant that is the world’s largest environmental cleanup project.

The much less well-known Midnite site has the EPA status “Human Exposure Not Under Control.”

The water, soil and waste rock are contaminated with radium-226, uranium-238 and lead-210. The air carries particulate matter and radon gas, a carcinogen. Plants are taking up the contaminants.

Uranium mine still poses risks – Juneau Empire

November 13, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized

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