URI gets license
Court backs uranium mining

By Kathy Helms
Diné Bureau

CHURCHROCK — The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has upheld a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license issued to Uranium Resources Inc. in 1998, which would allow its subsidiary, Hydro Resources Inc., to mine uranium in Churchrock and Crownpoint.

However, Judge Carlos F. Lucero, in a stinging dissent, disagreed with the majority’s decision that HRI did not have to comply with federal limits on radiation releases from existing mine waste at the Churchrock Section 17 proposed in-situ leach mine site...

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