EPA Pilot Studies for Implementing New Treatment Technologies

EPA is in the process of researching emerging technologies that have the potential to reduce the cost of abandoned uranium mine cleanups. Information on these pilot studies can be found below.

• Treatability Study: High Pressure Slurry Ablation at Three Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mines (pdf) (6.69 MB, December 2023)
  EPA conducted a treatability study of High Pressure Slurry Ablation treatment technology as applied by Disa Technologies, LLC at three Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mine (AUM) sites to evaluate the technology’s effectiveness at removing metals and radionuclides from waste rock at AUM sites.
  • File Appendices to the Treatability Study (zip) (240 MB, December 2023)
    Appendices to the treatability study of High-Pressure Slurry Ablation treatment technology as applied by Disa Technologies, LLC at three Navajo Abandoned Uranium Mine (AUM) sites to evaluate the technology’s effectiveness at removing metals and radionuclides from waste rock at AUM sites.