Which kind of wheels will drive Moab's future?

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

MOAB -- Carson City had silver. San Francisco boomed with gold. In Moab, it was all about uranium. For more than three decades after World War II, as the nation built its arsenal of Cold War weapons and nuclear energy plants, the richly radioactive deposits that snake through southeast Utah made tiny Moab the nation's Geiger counter capital.

At its height, there were 40 to 50 publicly traded uranium companies listed in the Utah newspapers, and most of them were here. The town had its own stock exchange. Deals unfolded over lunch at places like the Golden Steak. Then the accident at the Three ...

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