In a memorandum issued on July 12, 2019, President Trump declined to instate quotas or other restrictions on uranium imports under the authority of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, disagreeing with the assessment by the Secretary of Commerce that current import rates of uranium constitute a threat to the national security…

On July 8, 2018, Allison Macfarlane and Sharon Squassoni published the joint op-ed “Recycle everything, America — except your nuclear waste.” In this piece, Macfarlane and Squassoni critically examine the promises of new, “advanced” reactors, many of which would require the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel for safety reasons.  They…

On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing titled “Uranium Mining: Contamination and Criticality.” The hearing was called in response to the Department of Interior’s decision to include uranium on its 2019 Critical Minerals List. Sharon Squassoni testified that “uranium is…