General Electric and United Nuclear accept a multi-party agreement to clean up uranium mine waste.

General Electric and United Nuclear have agreed to accept a U.S. court judgment that requires the cleanup of uranium mine waste at sites in New Mexico and Navajo Nation reservations, at an estimated cost of $63 million. The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday that the agreement requires both companies to excavate and remove approximately one million cubic yards of uranium mine waste from the Northeast Church Rock Mine Superfund Site located on Navajo Nation reservation. The Department of Justice stated that General Electric and United Nuclear will transfer the waste to the UNC Mill Site, a federally licensed disposal facility adjacent to the Navajo Nation reservation. The cleanup is expected to cost nearly $63 million and take over a decade to complete.