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Trump wants $1.5B over 10 years to revive US uranium mining

by Associated Press
| February 13, 2020 10:05 PM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Trump administration is asking Congress for $1.5 billion over 10 years to create a new national stockpile of U.S.-mined uranium, saying that propping up U.S. uranium production in the face of cheaper imports is a matter of vital energy security.

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