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Nepal floods leave 900 hydropower workers unaccounted, 700 MW offline

Nepal floods leave 900 hydropower workers unaccounted, 700 MW offline
  • Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in Nepal's Dhading district that supplies electricity to more than 20,000 people.
  • The Independent Power Producers' Association of Nepal reported up to 900 workers unaccounted for from a dozen hydropower projects, with hundreds believed trapped in tunnels.
  • Last week's catastrophic floods left more than 900 people dead and 4,700 missing across Nepal and China combined.
  • The catastrophic floods knocked an estimated 700 megawatts of hydropower offline — about 10% of Nepal's total power capacity.
 2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READ

Energy Fuels to more than double White Mesa Mill output as tribe demands shutdown

Illustration accompanying article: Energy Fuels to more than double White Mesa Mill output as tribe demands shutdown
  • The federal push to revive domestic uranium production is ramping up output and planned waste expansion at White Mesa Mill in southeastern Utah, the nation's only remaining conventional uranium mill.
  • A 2024 federal law bans Russian uranium imports by 2028, and President Trump set a goal to quadruple U.S. nuclear energy capacity by 2050.
  • Energy Fuels, which has owned the mill since 2012, said it produced 1 million pounds of yellowcake last year and plans to more than double that output this year.
  • The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe passed a 2021 resolution stating that the mill "has had severe health impacts on the residents of White Mesa and should cease entirely," and members of the Havasupai and Navajo tribes have raised related concerns along uranium trucking routes.
  • A 2023 federal health assessment found radiation levels at the tribe's air monitor were unlikely to harm human health but could not evaluate whether the mill's radon emissions could affect bordering properties.
 2026-08-12 · 4 MIN READ
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