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The United States imports most of the uranium it uses as fuel

Uranium is the fuel most widely used by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission. Uranium is a common metal found in rocks all over the world. Uranium occurs in combination with small amounts of other elements. There are economically recoverable uranium deposits in the western United States, Australia, Canada, Central Asia, Africa, and South America.

Owners and operators of U.S. nuclear power reactors purchased the equivalent of about 40 million pounds of uranium in 2018. About 10% of uranium purchases in 2018 were from U.S. suppliers, and 90% came from other countries.

Sources and shares of total U.S. purchases of uranium in 2018 were
Canada24%
Kazakhstan20%
Australia18%
Russia13%
U.S. suppliers10%
Uzbekistan6%
Namibia5%
China, Niger, South Africa, and others combined3%
Note: sum of shares does not equal 100% because of independent rounding.

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The chart has 1 X axis displaying values. Range: 1949.32 to 2018.68.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying million pounds of uranium oxide. Range: 0 to 70.
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million pounds of uranium oxideSources of uranium for U.S. nuclear power plants, 1950-2018domestic concentrate productionpurchased importsU.S. power plant purchases from domestic suppliers1950196019701980199020002010010203040506070Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, Table 8.2, June 2019
2003
▬  domestic concentrate production: 2.00 million pounds of uranium oxide
▬  purchased imports: 53.00 million pounds of uranium oxide
▬  U.S. power plant purchases from domestic suppliers: 21.70 million pounds of uranium oxide

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Last updated: July 17, 2019

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Lonewolf

Yes, Trump is no longer the leader of the free world! the president is no longer respected in the world or the US for that matter!
Trump is already rated the worse president in history Obama is number 8
China is kicking our ass in the trade war little Kim is making a fool out of trump and trumps loves it
apologized for our Country's actions.onlyif you want to twist his words

son of witless

The free world ? Western Europe. Panty woosie Socialists.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFxwAaJTNA

America 1 Loc: South Miami

The evidence was compiled as Secretary Clinton courted Russia for better relations, as her husband former President Clinton collected a $500,000 speech payday in Moscow, and as the Obama administration approved the sale of a U.S. mining company, Uranium One, to Rosatom.
The sale — made famous years later by author Peter Schweizer and an epic New York Times exposé in 2015 — turned over a large swath of America’s untapped uranium deposits to Russia.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409356-fbis-37-secret-pages-of-memos-about-russia-clintons-and-uranium-one

The president is the only one who can stop a sale, if the committee or any one member “recommends suspension or prohibition of the t***saction,” according to guidelines issued by the Treasury Department in December 2008 after the department adopted its final rule a month earlier.
“When a t***saction is referred to the President, however, the decision of the President is announced publicly,” Treasury says.

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

Amen The American v**ers will decide in November of 2020 It will either be 4 more yrs of Moscow Trump in the White House and 6 more years of Moscow Mitch ruining the Senate or a stable minded person running the White House and leading the Senate we shall soon see ^

Kazudy

You need to take your meds, lonely puppy.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Of course BoyBama's cohorts in the c**p are going to continue yelling "hey, look over there".

Airforceone

Right on

Lonewolf

The point I'm making is the Russians got no uranium it's illegal to export uranium any uranium mine in the US has to be sold in u.s. mostly going to power plants

Blackie

This should make the young libs stop and think for at least a minute.

News
Ted Kennedy Made Secret Overtures to Russia to Prevent Ronald Reagan’s Re-E******n
Kevin Mooney / @KevinMooneyDC / December 14, 2016 / 2 Comments







Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, left, greets President Jimmy Carter on Aug. 28, 1980, at a Boston airport. (Photo: Bryce Flynn/ZumaPress/Newscom)
Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy had “selfish political and ideological motives” when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-e******n, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal.
When they came to light years later, Kennedy’s secret contacts with the Russians through their KGB spy agency in the early 1980s didn’t cause nearly the tizzy that Russia’s alleged interference with this year’s e******n has for President-elect Donald Trump among liberal activists and reporters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump has said he hopes to “get along,” is a former foreign intelligence officer and lieutenant colonel in the KGB.
In the 1980s, Kennedy was “terribly misguided” and “a fool” for seeing Reagan as a greater threat than either the leader of the Soviet Union or the head of its brutal secret police and intelligence agency, political science professor and writer Paul Kengor told The Daily Signal.
The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution. Find out more >>
The p**********l hopeful’s secret correspondence with the Soviet spy service was first reported Feb. 2, 1992, by the London Times in an article headlined “Teddy, the KGB and the Top Secret File.”
As this reporter wrote in 2010, the story focused on a 1983 document from the spy agency detailing Kennedy’s overtures to top officials in the former Soviet Union. The Massachusetts Democrat had challenged President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primaries and was considering the possibility of running again for president.
In a letter addressed to then-Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, dated May 14, 1983, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov explained that Kennedy was eager to “counter the militaristic policies” of Reagan, who defeated Carter as the Republican nominee, and to undermine his prospects for re-e******n in 1984.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Excellent post b*****e. lone wolf should take notice to the history of his own party.

Lonewolf

I find it very interesting that all this was known and your party stood by and did nothing

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

You are avoiding your party's history of evil. That's the hypocrite in you, being a lefty.

Obama knew that the Russians were tampering with our e******n and did nothing.

You won't comment on your own party, will you?

Lonewolf

obama informed trump and trump asked Russia for help.
after leaving the republican party I became an independent some times v****g republican and sometimes democrat but after this 3 years ill never v**e for another Republican again!