Boom goes uranium in Utah — again

Southeast Utah was once the turbine of American uranium production. After the splitting of the atom, uranium was needed to build nuclear reactors and bombs. In the decades after World War II, U.S. uranium production was measured in millions of pounds annually. In 2022, the figure was just 194,000 pounds, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Meanwhile, another company has announced plans to restart a uranium mine – this one near the town of Ticaboo, Utah. In an agreement with Energy Fuels, it will truck its ore to the White Mesa mill for processing.

Yet Moore says uranium mining will never again be as robust as the 1950s and ‘60s. The La Sal Complex has 15 employees. The White Mesa Mill has 75.

“Those days are over,” Moore said of the uranium’s heyday. “We're never going to have an industry like that.”

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