EPA Pilot Studies for Implementing New Treatment Technologies

These documents provide more information about EPA's work related to cleaning up abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation.

• 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.