{"id":354871,"date":"2024-12-17T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354871"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:39:03","slug":"time-to-reinvigorate-u-s-uranium-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354871","title":{"rendered":"Time to reinvigorate U.S. uranium mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"354872\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=354872\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?fit=2508%2C1672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2508,1672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0-Uranium-Periodic-Table-Z.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/12\/16\/time-to-reinvigorate-u-s-uranium-mining\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=time-to-reinvigorate-u-s-uranium-mining&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=time-to-reinvigorate-u-s-uranium-mining#iLightbox[gallery45794]\/0\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/duggan\/\">Duggan Flanakin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his nomination of Christopher Wright to serve as Secretary of Energy points to a major effort to revive domestic uranium mining. That\u2019s especially good news, given the Biden Administration\u2019s recent decision to discontinue importing uranium from Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further complicating the worldwide uranium supply chain, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c7ve6y735djo\">military authorities<\/a>&nbsp;in Niger, who now control that nation\u2019s uranium mining operations, are putting the squeeze on French reliance on Niger\u2019s uranium for its nuclear reactors. Niger, which produces about 5% of the world\u2019s uranium, had been supplying 15% to 20% of France\u2019s uranium imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 192 million pounds of refined uranium oxide (yellowcake, U3O8) used worldwide in 2023, American reactor owners&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/denvergazette.com\/news\/uranium-crisis-threatens-global-nuclear-power-industry\/article_678c0042-63ed-11ef-891e-7fb571b32501.html\">purchased<\/a>&nbsp;51.6 million pounds, and U.S. nuclear reactors loaded 43.9 million pounds in completed fuel assemblies. Russia today accounts for about 44% of world uranium conversion and enrichment capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until Biden signed H.R. 1042, the \u201cProhibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act,\u201d Russian-origin material (a big moneymaker for Putin\u2019s military) accounted for 12% of U.S. uranium. The top supplier for U.S. reactors remains Canada (27%), followed by Australia and Kazakhstan (each at 22%). Another 10% comes from Uzbekistan, while only 5% was from domestic sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ban on Russian uranium, however, could trigger Russia to block traditional routes of supply from both Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through the Baltic Sea port at St. Petersburg. The only two alternate routes are by land through China (from Kazakhstan) and across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, through Georgia to Turkey and across the Black Sea. Both routes add cost, and time, to the yellowcake delivery stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, while the Biden Administration did allocate $2.7 billion toward building U.S. conversion and enrichment capacity, not a dime was approved to support the U.S. uranium mining industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worse from a supply standpoint, President Biden in July 2023 established the Baaj Nwaavjo I\u2019tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, closing off the nation\u2019s highest grade uranium resources from mining operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Energy Fuel Resources, which operates Arizona\u2019s sole active uranium mine, \u201cThe uranium deposits of Northern Arizona are geologically unique \u2026 very high-grade, close to the surface, and require very little land area to mine. As a result, they are among the lowest-cost and lowest-impact sources of uranium in the United States., making them clean energy assets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a final blow to the domestic nuclear energy industry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request by electric power utility&nbsp;Talen Energy&nbsp;to increase the amount of power one of its nuclear plants in Pennsylvania supplies to a nearby data center operated by&nbsp;Amazon, sending shockwaves throughout the advanced reactor industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the best uranium news during the Biden Administration was the 2021 acquisition by Texas-based Uranium Energy Corporation of uranium assets previously transferred to Russia\u2019s Uranium One Investments Inc. &nbsp;The deal returned to American hands about 100,000 acres in Wyoming\u2019s uranium-producing Powder River and Great Divide Basins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former U.S. Energy Secretary (under G.W. Bush) Spencer Abraham, UEC\u2019s board chairman, boasted at the time that, \u201cWe believe this achievement will accelerate and strengthen the development of domestic uranium production that can supply U.S.-origin uranium for a full range of America\u2019s uranium requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to UEC CEO Amir Adnani, the deal included U1A\u2019s Irigaray plant, which has a licensed annual capacity of 2.5 million pounds of uranium oxide, as well as the Christensen Ranch in situ recovery (ISR) project with four fully installed wellfields and six other permitted or development-stage satellite ISR projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six months later, UEC disclosed mineral resources totaling over 69 million pounds of uranium oxide for its Wyoming hub-and-spoke uranium properties, far more than the combined historic resource of 41.9 million pounds identified at the time it purchased the U1A assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump has been much more consistently supportive of nuclear energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 2019, he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/presidential-actions\/memorandum-effect-uranium-imports-national-security-establishment-united-states-nuclear-fuel-working-group\/\">established<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. Nuclear Fuel Working Group with a charge to examine the state of domestic nuclear-fuel production and \u201creinvigorate the entire nuclear-fuel supply chain.\u201d He saw that the nation\u2019s uranium industry was facing \u201csignificant challenges in production uranium domestically\u201d and called that \u201can issue of national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, Trump proposed a $1.5 billion, 10-year campaign to create a national stockpile of U.S.-mined uranium. His rationale was that, even if imported uranium was cheaper, ensuring a domestic supply (just as with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) was (again) \u201ca matter of national security.\u201d And in his final week in office, he issued an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/presidential-actions\/executive-order-promoting-small-modular-reactors-national-defense-space-exploration\/\">executive order<\/a>&nbsp;promoting small modular reactors for national defense and space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to support nuclear energy production by modernizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, working to keep existing nuclear powerplants open, and investing in innovative small modular reactors. He cited the enormous electricity demands of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies as potential users of these SMRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s pick of Oklo Inc. director (and CEO of oilfield services company Liberty Energy Inc.) Christopher Wright as Energy Secretary signals his recommitment to the concept of a national uranium stockpile and increased domestic uranium production. Oklo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oklo.com\/newsroom\/news-details\/2024\/Oklo-Completes-Environmental-Compliance-Process-to-Begin-Site-Characterization-for-its-Commercial-Powerhouse-in-Idaho\/default.aspx\">recently submitted<\/a>&nbsp;the first advanced fission custom combined application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its developing advanced nuclear fuel recycling technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wright is quite familiar with the desires of energy-hungry giants like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon to utilize nuclear power to fuel their data centers and artificial intelligence ambitions. Oklo\u2019s vision is to market its Aurora microreactor, housed in an A-frame building, to military installations, isolated and remote countries, remote mining and other energy-using operations, and research outposts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UEC executive vice president Scott Melbye, who is also CEO of Uranium Royalty Corp., says that nuclear generation and uranium demand are on tract to double over the next 20 years. He welcomes an administration willing to work to expand domestic uranium production, noting that \u201cthe fundamentals behind the supply and demand of uranium have never been more bullish.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, long seen by many as the enemy of the domestic uranium industry, will need two new commissioners in the coming months. The NRC choices Trump makes may signal the depth of his commitment to revitalizing domestic uranium production for the nation\u2019s fast-growing energy market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article originally appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2024\/12\/12\/time_to_reinvigorate_the_us_uranium_mining_industry_1078226.html\">Real Clear Energy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Donald Trump returns to the White House, his nomination of Christopher Wright to serve as Secretary of Energy points to a major effort to revive domestic uranium mining. 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