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For National Security, We Need Uranium Mined in America

For National Security, We Need Uranium Mined in America
Two miners push an ora cart as they emerge from an uranium mine in California, circa 1955. Tom Stimson/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Ivan Maldonado
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Perhaps it’s too soon to mark nuclear power’s revival in the U.S. but there is a burst of activity that should ultimately yield a new generation of advanced nuclear plants and small modular reactors.

Ivan Maldonado
Ivan Maldonado
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Dr. G. Ivan Maldonado is a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT) Department of Nuclear Engineering and fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).