At the current time, we are little more than the United States of Obama’s Czars. As an aside, modern uranium mining is basically a field of injection and recovery wells and a modest chemical recovery plant. Less of an environmental footprint than a hillside of windmills. He’s intentionally hobbling US access to raw materials needed for domestic energy production, plain and simple.
I think you need to read up on a breeder reactor, sea water contains enough fuel to last until the sun burns out.