How are waste materials handled, and where are they disposed of?
No, low-level and transuranics are definitions for waste products of a nuclear reactor. Transuranics are not a product of uranium mining. Any wastes generated from ISR mining are called by-product material, and are disposed of only at an NRC-licensed mill-tailings site or a commercial disposal site. There is one such mill site in Colorado in Canon City west of Pueblo. In surrounding states, two mill sites and one commercial site exist in Utah and one mill site exists in Wyoming. Plans are underway by other operators to build additional sites in Coloardo, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming to meet demand.
