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New Mexico is advancing its uranium cleanup efforts with a new training program that offers participants a $2,000 monthly stipend.

The cleanup is funded through the $5.15 billion Tronox settlement reached in 2014, which allocated $1 billion specifically for remediating 50 uranium mines across the Navajo Nation.

"I am told [by the DEP] to catch the truck. I'm told to be my own cop," one Pennsylvania resident says about roadside fracking wastewater dumps.

The microbes produce substances that help to transform the uranium, so that it is more easily incorporated into minerals.

Areas of focused groundwater discharge identified by the fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing surveys corresponded closely with areas of elevated electrical conductivity.

The cleanup project will also tackle former satellite exploration sites around Rayrock, an old barge landing at Marian Lake, and a disused power line.

This deal is the latest chapter in a sweeping deal the Newsom administration reached with Boeing this summer.

Boston Chemical Data Corp recently showed Jana Elementary School in Florissant, Missouri, has radioactive isotope lead-210 levels 22-tims higher than expected on the kindergarten playground. 

Weston’s original technical paper called “Pilot-Scale Study for In-situ Leaching of Residual Uranium from Remediated Soil” recently achieved distinguished honors reserved for just 16 of the 300 papers submitted at the Waste Management (WM) Symposia held in March 2022.