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The U.S. Senate has endorsed a major expansion of a compensation program for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing and the mining of uranium during the Cold War ...
Shares in Uranium Energy (NYSEMKT: UEC) rose by a whopping 17.8% in the week up to Friday morning. The move comes in a positive week of newsflow for the nuclear industry, which is good news for a ...
In 2020, the U.S. government began to invest heavily in uranium mining, contributing to an uptick in the stock market. Uranium fuels nuclear power, which represents approximately 20% of America ...
The Wyoming uranium mining industry was hard-hit in the 1980s by the drop in the price of uranium. The uranium-mining boom town of Jeffrey City lost 95% of its population in three years. By 2020, the only active uranium mine in Wyoming was the Smith Ranch-Highland in-situ leaching operation in the Powder River Basin, owned by Cameco. [107]
Areas covered by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program. The United States Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is a federal statute implemented in 1990, set to expire in July 2024, providing for the monetary compensation of people, including atomic veterans, who contracted cancer and a number of other specified diseases as a direct result of their exposure to atmospheric nuclear ...
The spot price for uranium fell, [7]: 195 leaving the price below $10 per pound for yellowcake by year-end 1989. [10] With the price of uranium low, investment in uranium mining decreased. [7]: 195 The uranium market was a buyers market over the periods 1980 to 1994 and 1998 to 2003. [7]: 195
This week, nuclear energy stocks became a hot topic in the news as political forces pushed to expand nuclear production and tech companies indicated their willingness to be buyers. According to ...
The uranium bubble of 2007 was a period of nearly exponential growth in the price of natural uranium, starting in 2005 [2] and peaking at roughly $300/kg (or ~$135/lb) in mid-2007. [ citation needed ] This coincided with significant rises of stock price of uranium mining and exploration companies. [ 3 ]