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Some young billionaires and wannabes, with minds full of fungible narratives about new riches in data centers and small modular (nuclear) reactors, have begun to speculate on resuming uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau

The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds another variable to the equation, given the high concentration of uranium mines, mills and disposal sites on the Western Slope and in the Four Corners region. And: leakage from atom bomb tests