The end of World War II brought the Four Corners a uranium boom. Eight decades later, yellowcake may be making a comeback, but the deadly effects of radioactivity seem to be forgotten. In the 1950s ...

Most uranium mining occurred in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, the height of the Cold War. Processed uranium was used in the first nuclear bomb and is still utilized in nuclear ...

Members of three activist groups say recent research shows that abandoned uranium mines are contributing to elevated uranium levels in Angostura Reservoir in the southern Black Hills.

Environmental reviews of mining operations would typically take months or even years. But it took just 11 days for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to approve the Velvet-Wood uranium mine's plan ...

Energy Fuels, another Canadian company which ranks as the top U.S. uranium miner, opened the Pinyon Plain mine about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon in late 2023.

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. - One of the world's largest uranium mining companies is seeking federal permission to construct an in-situ uranium mine in northeastern Sweetwater County.