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Energy Fuels Resources says that it plans to stockpile and eventually process the uranium at its White Mesa mill facility in southeastern Utah, the last of its kind still operating in the U.S. A tribe located near the mill facility opposes the increase in uranium production due to concerns over air pollution.
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Coal-producing Emery County is one of the only regions in Utah to have seen a drop in population in the last decade. And those that remain have lost good paying jobs as the state transitions away from coal. A new research facility wants to bring back revenue and jobs by experimenting with a number of new technologies. From KZMU in Moab, Justin Higginbottom looks at one of those projects: a type of nuclear reactor some think could be the future of power.