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Energy Fuels Inc. sends as many as a dozen big trucks filled with uranium ore across the Navajo Nation every weekday to a processing mill in Utah.

Many people who live along the route remember the poorly run mines from the Cold War era, now abandoned, and worry about the ore-filled trucks.

Navajo officials inspect all of the trucks, and experts say modern mining methods and better regulations make the chances of an accident remote.

TUBA CITY ― Brown Preston was in his early 20s when he and six of his relatives took jobs at a uranium mine in Uravan, Colorado.

It was one of the only good jobs available on the Navajo Nation in the 1950s, a time when the demand for uranium was growing as the country stockpiled nuclear weapons during the Cold War era.

Now 91, Preston’s

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