Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.
Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.
Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.