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Nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater makes nuclear power completely renewable. It’s not just that the 4 billion tons of uranium in seawater now would fuel a thousand 1,000-MW ...
The first barrel uranium extracted by the National No.1 Uranium Demonstration Project Photo: Screenshot of CNNC's social media China marked a major breakthrough in domestic uranium production on ...
The share price of Uranium Energy Corp. (NYSEAMERICAN:UEC) fell by 7.06% between June 30 and July 8, 2025, putting it among ...
After extraction, the ore is processed in a series of steps to refine it and remove impurities, turning it into yellowcake, a concentrate that contains uranium.The next step is the enrichment of ...
The end of World War II brought the Four Corners a uranium boom. Eight decades later, yellowcake may be making a comeback, ...
Efforts to ban uranium mining around the Grand Canyon started long before the creation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni — Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Uranium mining goes back decades in South Texas, but lately it’s been dormant. Between the 1970s and 1990s, a cluster of open pit mines harvested shallow uranium deposits at the surface.
Today, uranium mining is undergoing a renaissance on the Colorado Plateau. Scientists, the industry and regulators say that they now know how to mine uranium with far less harm to people and the ...
Between 1956 and 2009, mining companies pulled 23.3 million pounds of uranium from the Grand Canyon region, creating a legacy of polluted water, contaminated soil and toxic mine sites.
Residents of a community near Cañon City have fought Australian company Global Uranium and Enrichment's exploratory uranium drilling, but a Colorado mining board has allowed it to proceed.
Activists told the council they weren't being kept informed about decisions to work with a uranium mining company and questioned support for future coal extraction. WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.