Feature: Native American tribe protests U.S. only functioning uranium mill on sacred soil

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- "Children don't play outside anymore. You can smell the sulfur, the air smells really bad," Michael Badback, a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe citizen in the community of White Mesa of the U.S. state of Utah, expressed his grave concern over the impacts of the uranium mill just a few miles from his home.

The adjacent White Mesa Uranium Mill is the only operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. For 40 years, the mill has processed uranium ore next to the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in southeastern Utah.