Forty years ago they were busting down mountains in Wyoming and Colorado to get to new uranium ore sources, and more recently causing all kinds of international tensions getting the “yellowcake” out of Africa, and here in the farmlands of southern Virginia, this relatively easily accessible vein was just sitting there.
No harder to get to than limestone from a quarry.
Aren’t we worried about terrorists getting their hands on it?
The histrionics have already gone nuclear. Why not? It works.
Fears over using nuclear energy are mostly irrational and being used by others with their own agenda. The technology and knowledge is available to build and operate nuclear plants with no more risk than operating a coal plant. The U.S. needs to develop every energy resource it has to become independent of outside influence.
“there will be a dead zone within a thirty-mile radius of the mine, nothing will grow, animals will die...”
loaded with leftist lies or the truth?
(have to research it.)
But, but, but, what about the South Central Virginia Spotted Snot Flea?
Save the South Central Virginia Spotted Snot Flea.
It’s more important than electricity.
Ah, uranium is radioactive, it's already in the ground. How will taking uranium out of the ground create "enormous quantities of radioactive waste". Seems to me, it'll reduce radioactivity in the ground.
We need to revive the word "reactionary", someone who opposes every new activity. It's the liberals, leftists and environomentals, who are the reactionaries of today.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
As a bonus, we will starve the funding of both the expansion of islam, and its most effective tool, mindless terrorism.
As an added bonus, we will get nutcase Chavez deposed, and probably hanged by his own people.
(Let them eat oil?)
My uranium mines are in Canada and Kazakhstan. Those countries apparently like the idea of developing natural resources.
The irony is that Nuclear and offshore drilling are probably two of the best options for the environment.
btt
I have worked for a Uranium company and am somewhat familiar with the industry.
The grade in the Virginia deposit is less than .1% uranium oxide. This is the normal low-grade resource found around the planet.
In the Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan, the grades run to 20%+ - now that’s dangerously high!
The opposition to this development is mere NIMBYism.
As a kid in the late 60’s, my parents sent me to Camp Pitt, a Christian Church camp in that area. It’s since been relocated and the original site is a uranuium mine. Back then they told us it was the power of the Lord that made the old swimmin’ hole glow at night....
Our true enemies will not even allow us to consider nuclear power. This is Jane Fonda's crowning acievement. And shows us the power of jusr one propaganda movie. I realy like Jack Lemmon's movies but the fact that he did this with her is truely saddening.
BTTT!
In Pittsylvania County, just north of the North Carolina border, the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the United States -- and the seventh largest in the world, according to industry monitor UX Consulting -- sits on land owned by neighbors Henry Bowen and Walter Coles. Large uranium deposits close to the surface are virtually unknown in the U.S. east of the Mississippi River... Virginia is one of just four states that ban uranium mining. The ban was put in place in 1984, to calm fears that had been sparked by the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island outside of Harrisburg, Pa. in 1979.