Wednesday January 11, 2023

Energy Fuels Inc., the company that owns White Mesa uranium mill just south of Blanding, will sell 300,000 pounds of uranium to the Department of Energy for $18.5 million. The sale is part of a larger initiative to create a domestic uranium reserve. Plus, sentencing in the largest body brokering case in the nation took place in U.S District Court in Grand Junction, Colorado. And later, our radio partners profile Moab Regional Hospital expanding services as well as recent efforts to remove a caricature sign depicting a Native American man at an art gallery in our region.

// Show Notes:

// Photo: Energy Fuels’ White Mesa uranium mill. Dom Smith/EcoFlight

// Energy Fuels
https://www.energyfuels.com/2022-12-16-Energy-Fuels-Awarded-Contract-to-Sell-18-5-Million-of-Uranium-to-U-S-Uranium-Reserve

// The Times-Independent(Archive 2018)
https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/moab-family-questions-practices-of-montrose-funeral-home/

// KSUT: The Durango Chief – Native Perspectives
https://www.ksut.org/news/2022-12-21/the-durango-chief-native-perspectives

// KUER: Nurses are hard to come by. Moab’s hospital has a plan to hold on to them
https://www.kuer.org/health-science-environment/2023-01-04/nurses-are-hard-to-come-by-moabs-hospital-has-a-plan-to-hold-on-to-them