Idaho wildfire roars through former uranium mine site
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A wildfire in east-central Idaho has burned through three former mining sites containing traces of radioactive thorium and uranium and was advancing a fourth such site on Thursday, but state officials said they believed the risk to human health was low. As a precaution, state environmental authorities planned to take air samples in North Fork, a small community in the fire zone north of Salmon, to assess any radioactive hazards posed by fire damage to the sites. One area of concern is a defunct uranium mine and milling operation 5 miles west of North Fork, where the ...
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