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What Lies Beneath
Landowner hopes to mine mother lode of uranium in Virginia |
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02 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:20 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A 200-acre plot of earth in Virginia is not the unassuming farmland it appears. It harbors what is thought to be the largest deposit of uranium in the U.S. -- 110 million pounds of the stuff, worth almost $10 billion and able to supply every U.S. nuclear power plant for two years. Unfortunately for drooling nuclear boosters, Virginia banned uranium mining in 1982. Nonetheless, landowner ... |
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