News Article, June 9, 2021 • Remediation technology reduces uranium levels ten-thousandfold at legacy site in Colorado A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a “sponge-like” mineral that can “soak up” uranium at a former uranium mill near Rifle, Colorado. A graphical illustration of the apatite remediation test to...
![Graphic of underground stream with uranium being absorbed by apatite with detection wells upstream and downstream.](https://www.sandia.gov/app/uploads/sites/273/2021/06/ApatiteGraphicV4-scaled-1.jpg)