Uranium Week: Biden Condemns Trump’s Nuclear Plans

[Marlin]

Flipped a coin and decided this was more news than PolySci

Uranium Week: Biden Condemns Trump's Nuclear Plans

https://www.fnarena.com/index.php/2020/08/11/uranium-week-biden-condemns-trumps-nuclear-plans/

[Mounder]

"Biden was responding to President Trump's recent plan to mine uranium around the Grand Canyon. To achieve this, the President would need to lift the current 20-year ban on new mining in the area."
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/cersc/science/integrated-uranium-resource-and-environmental-assessment?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
There appears to be no viable reason to mine uranium around the Grand Canyon versus southern Utah, other than to say "we opened it up the GC for mining."