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USA Rare Earth, the funding and development partner of the Round Top heavy rare earth project and Texas Mineral Resources announced Thursday that its rare earths pilot plant processing facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has received the required permits and officially opened. Once fully commissioned, the plant will be focused on group separation of rare earths into heavy (dysprosium, terbium), middle, and light (neodymium, praseodymium) rare earths (REE’s) and will be the first facility to separate the full range of rare earth elements in the US since 1999. USA Rare Earth’s pilot plant is the second link in a 100%...

Photograph by Dave Lepori Bombshell: Pentagon hopes for next-generation atomic weapons were thrown a curve when one of its appointed physicists, SLAC's Bill Herrmannsfeldt, questioned the project's viability. Battle Over a Bomb Is a Pentagon push to exploit the explosive power of hafnium based on bad science? By Najeeb Hasan AN EXOTIC NEW potential technology that could fog the distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons is being hotly debated by scientists on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain's popular science magazine, New Scientist, speculated last August that the United States Department of Defense's plans to deploy the new bomb-making...