This uranium disposal cell, built to contain the wastes from a uranium processing mill that operated here from 1962 to 1965, is unique as it is completely buried. The 315,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris was placed in the bottom of an adjacent open pit uranium mine, which was then filled with clean material to the pre-mining surface contour.
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