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Navajo Nation strengthens rules on uranium transportation as negotiations continue with Energy Fuels Inc.

WASHINGTON – The first shipment of uranium ore from the new Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon began rumbling through Navajo land on July 30 – outraging tribal leaders. They knew the shipments were coming, but had expected a heads-up from Energy Fuels Inc., especially given the tribe’s painful history of radiation exposure from […]