The scope of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project is to relocate mill tailings and other contaminated materials from a former uranium-ore processing facility (millsite) and from off-site properties known as vicinity properties in Moab, Utah, to an engineered disposal cell constructed near Crescent Junction, Utah. The scope also includes active remediation of groundwater at the millsite (Moab site). The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management in Grand Junction, Colorado, has primary responsibility for managing the Moab Project.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project incorporated additional railcars making it possible to increase the number of intermodal containers on each train shipment. This increase in railcars means the project can now transport more material per shipment thereby more efficiently driving down its environmental liability.
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The Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project recently hosted U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy of Utah and Grand County Commission Chair Bill Winfield for a tour of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup site. -
Representatives from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) recently made their first of several visits to the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project to independently verify the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management's (EM) environmental cleanup for both of the Moab Project’s working sites. -
Crescent Junction, Utah ― The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project conducted a multi-agency response exercise at its Crescent Junction disposal cell site on December 2, 2024. -
Students from the University of Utah’s American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Section recently toured the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project sites.
For more information please contact the Project Public Affairs Specialist:
Barbara Michel
970-257-2121
barbara.michel@emcbc.doe.gov