November 6, 2017 • President Trump and his supporters are again claiming that Hillary Clinton helped Russia gain control of
the U.S. uranium supply and endangered U.S. security.
President Trump and his supporters claim that in exchange for millions of dollars in donations to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton supported the 2010 sale of a mining company that gave Russia control of
U.S. uranium supplies.
Not exact matches
With 436 reactors worldwide consuming 65,000 metric tons (one metric ton equals 1.1
U.S. tons) of enriched
uranium per year, demand for this nuclear reactor fuel outstrips available
supply, which has caused
uranium prices to jump from a low of $ 10 per pound a few years ago to more than $ 130 per pound in 2007 and still more than $ 50 per pound today.
While extensive
supplies of «secondary source»
uranium are held by the
U.S., Russia and other countries, secondary source
uranium has yet to included in WNA projections of future
uranium supply.
The reduction in blended down
uranium reflects a projected end of current
U.S. - Russian HEU blending agreements, but not the end of HEU
supplies.
Thus, if they were opened, the new mines in New Mexico would reflect not a «need» for that
uranium, but a deliberate policy of not using the large amounts of
uranium available from secondary sources to
supply the
U.S. and world
uranium market.