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Creation of new national uranium reserve could mean jobs in Utah, but is the environmental cost too high? Zak Podmore © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (Courtesy of Rep. John Curtis) Rep. John Curtis (right), R-Utah, shakes hands with an employee at Energy Fuels' White Mesa uranium mill in September 2019. Some $75 million for a reserve uranium was included in the massive spending bill passed by Congress this week. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, which funds $900 billion in coronavirus relief and appropriates $1.4 trillion in government spending, also would create...

23 December 2020 Share The US Congress voted to approve appropriations for fiscal year 2021 that includes USD1.5 billion for the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. The appropriations also include USD150 million to initiate the uranium reserve programme to address challenges to the production of domestic uranium. The US Capitol building in Washington, DC (Image: Architect of the Capital) The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, approved by Congress on 21 December, funds USD900 billion in coronavirus relief and appropriates USD1.4 trillion in government spending for fiscal y...

The content below was translated by Tencent automatically for reference. (Energy Fuels), a U.S.-based uranium and vanadium mining company, will become a rare earth producer in the first quarter of 2021. The company announced on December 14th that it had reached a supply agreement to process monazite at its White Mesa smelter in (White Mesa Mill), Utah. The company signed a three-year supply agreement with Como (Chemours Company) to obtain 2500 tons per year of natural monazite placer, one of the highest-grade rare earth minerals in the world. The uranium-vanadium mining company will process m...

/ The White Mesa Mill was constructed in the early 1980s and is the last conventional uranium mill operating in the country. There are multiple pools filled with radioactive material on site. Executives from Energy Fuels Resources, which owns the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County, announced last month that they had successfully produced a concentration of rare earth metals from something called monazite sand. And this week, they announced plans to import at least 2,500 tons of the sand a year for the next three years from a plant in the state of Georgia. Energy Fuels president Mark Chalmers...

15 December 2020 Share US company Energy Fuels Inc will become a commercial rare earths supplier in 2021, having entered into a three-year supply agreement to acquire a minimum of 2500 tons per year of natural monazite sands from which it will also recover uranium at its White Mesa mill in Utah. Separately, Vancouver-based International Consolidated Uranium Inc said it had been attracted to its newly announced acquisition of the Laguna Salada uranium project in Argentina by the by-product vanadium. The White Mesa Mill (Image: Energy Fuels) Lakewood, Colorado-based Energy Fuels expects to begi...