A website and film projects educating and raising public awareness of environmental, health, and socio-economic impacts of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle, and the tremedous wastes involved.

Who We AreCCAT Biography and Achievements2002-2009CCAT is a local, grass roots organization in Fremont County, Colorado, that formed March 7, 2002, after the Cotter Corporation’s uranium mill a...

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Website InformationWe have created this website to be an educational tool to raise public awareness of the environmental, health, and socio-economic impacts of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycl...

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U.S. Nuclear Regulators Weaken Safety Rules, Fail To Enforce Them: AP InvestigationLACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the na...

Thank you to all those who gave their time, skills, thoughts, and funds to the making of this film.

Nuclear Fuel Cycle OverviewThe nuclear industry spends million of dollars each year selling people on the myth that nuclear power is emissions free. The facts are different from this industry-produce...

Graphic depicting the Nuclear Fuel Production Process at all phases; Exploration, Mining, Milling, Conversion, Enrichment, and Fuel Production. Images are linked to information on each process step.

Exploration process is conducted by boring many, closely spaced holes into the ore body. This phase is not regulated sufficiently to ensure that surrounding water tables will not be contaminated.

Cleanup set for uranium-tainted water at closed Jeffco mine By Bruce FinleyThe Denver PostPosted: 06/15/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ docume...

Energy policy — nuclear: Governor Ritter inks the deal on HB 10-1348 (Increase Oversight Radioactive Materials)June 9, 2010Update: Here’s a repor...

Fuel FabricationKnoxnews:Knoxville News SentinelNuclear Fuel Services missed safety standardsBy Larisa Brass Originally published 02:20 p.m., May 19, 2008Updated 02:20 p.m., May 19, 2008A safety anal...

Insurmountable Risks:The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change Brice Smith, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research "The potential impact on the public from safe...

Uranium EnrichmentEnrichment Facility LocationsUSEC scraps uranium plant, mulls optionsNEW YORK, July 28, 2009 (Reuters) - USEC Inc (USU.N) said on Tuesday it would scrap plans to build a new uranium...

Exploration/Mining in Tallahassee Creek System, Colorado:Water Depletions to Arkansas River Commissioners say no to nukesUnanimous decision extinguishes nuclear power plant plan.Posted: Tuesday, Apri...

Annual Energy Outlook - 2011Release Date: April 26, 2011 |Next Release Date: April 2012 EPACT2005 tax credits stimulate some nuclear buildsIn the AEO2011 Reference case, nuclear power capacity increa...

Costs to cleanup from contamination of exploration, mining, milling, enrichment, conversion, and fuel fabrication. There are spills and contamination of air, soil and water at every phase.

Contamination seeps, or floods,into groundwater and surface waterFrom the Exploration Drilling to Fuel Production, uranium extraction and processing leaves behind a legacy of toxic and radioactive wa...

Radioactive and contamination waste is generated at every phase of the nuclear fuel cycle.

NUCLEAR ENERGY: Environmentally benign?Emissions free?How exactly does anyone get away with making this claim?The answer is, they only are talking about the time at which the energy is being produced...

Health issues and concerns.

Cancer-causing chemical spreading from Cotter uranium mill site near Cañon CityBy Bruce Finley The Denver PostPosted: 04/10/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT The cancer-causing chemical trichloroethene h...

The ElementsNuclear Fuel is produced utilizing various elements and compounds in reactions that yied the product desired at the various stages.Initially uranium is the prime constituent looked for i...

DonationsThe CCAT organization is a non-profit, 501 (C) 3, whose purpose is to educate the public.To that end, CCAT has made this film to tell the 'other side' of the story of nuclear power.One you m...