NRC Considers Slurry Tech to Clean Up Abandoned Uranium Mines
Published Date: 8/8/2025
Notice
Summary
The NRC is thinking about giving Disa Technologies a special license to clean up old uranium mine waste using their cool high-pressure slurry ablation technology. This could help fix several abandoned mine sites once safety checks are done. If all goes well, this cleanup could start soon without costing taxpayers extra money.
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License would enable multi-site AUM cleanups
If approved, the proposed multi-site service provider license would allow Disa Technologies to use its high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology to remediate certain abandoned uranium mine (AUM) waste sites. Any remediation at specific sites must follow after Disa provides—and the NRC approves—site-specific safety and environmental information.
NRC posts draft FONSI for Disa license
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a draft generic environmental assessment (EA) and a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) about issuing a multi-site service provider license to Disa Technologies, Inc. to use its high-pressure slurry ablation (HPSA) technology to remediate abandoned uranium mine (AUM) waste. The draft EA and FONSI are being issued for public comment.
Cleanup could proceed without extra taxpayer cost
The notice states that, if the process proceeds as expected, the cleanup of abandoned uranium mine sites using Disa's HPSA technology could start soon without costing taxpayers extra money.
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