CANON CITY, CO, USA: Uranium Mill Wants To Stop Testing Radioactive Pond Because Its Too Dangerous

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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28766338/detail.html

Mill Wants To Stop Testing Radioactive Pond Because Its Too Dangerous
Cotter Corp. Pond Is Near Canon City
Posted by: Deb Stanley

POSTED: 11:16 am MDT August 4, 2011
UPDATED: 11:24 am MDT August 4, 2011

CANON CITY, Colo. -- The managers of a uranium mill are asking state regulators to let them stop testing a leaking radioactive pond because conditions are too dangerous for workers....

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_18713928

Cotter Corp. cited for uranium-tainted water spill
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Posted: 08/19/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT

State regulators have issued a notice of violation to Cotter Corp. for spilling more than 500 gallons of uranium-contaminated water at its mill near Ca?on City.
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The Cold War-era mill is being dismantled as the company prepares the site for possible future uranium processing...

http://www.chieftain.com/business/local/article_08f757fc-ab38-11df-828a-001cc4c002e0.html

Mill dates back to 1958

Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:00 am

CANON CITY ? The Cotter Uranium Mill, located two miles south of Canon City, operated continuously from 1958 until 1979, making "yellow cake" for the nuclear power industry from processing uranium ore...

Down the yellowcake road - raising public awareness of the environmental, health and socioeconomic impacts of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle