As Utah’s uranium booms again, miners and land will be protected this time, industry vows

The drive for clean energy is driving uranium prices back up and leading mines to reopen — with modern safety practices. Opponents remain skeptical. In southwestern Colorado, 85-year-old Jim Fisher copes with the lung illness that’s a legacy of his years underground, mining uranium in Utah. He’s a member of the generation of workers who mined, milled or transported the radioactive rock during the Cold War to meet demand from a U.S. government intent on developing nuclear weapons to keep up with Russia. Along with an apology for the cancers...