(Jim Urquhart | Tribune file photo) Harold Roberts holds a sample of yellowcake uranium produced at the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding, Utah, in 2007. Energy Fuels, the mill's owner, recently requested a permit from the state of Utah to import radioactive waste from Estonia, which will be partially reprocessed into yellowcake.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.