The Navajo Nation is investing roughly $3 million in a commercial scale test of new technology for cleaning up uranium mine waste.

From the 1940s into the 1980s, close to 30 million tons of uranium ore were mined from Navajo lands. Over 500 abandoned uranium mines remain, a legacy of nuclear weapons and energy development.

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