WSJ: Biden's ban on uranium mining in Arizona is a gift for Putin
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United States President Joe Biden's decision to ban the development of uranium deposits in Arizona was a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
< p>Nuclear power plants in the US still get about 12% of their fuel at the expense of raw materials from Russia, the article says. Now the United States imports about 95% of the total amount of uranium used for nuclear reactors, the authors of the publication shared the details. And the new decree will only make it even more difficult for the American side to find an alternative to Russian uranium, the material claims. acres in the state of Arizona, which the publication's journalists say has become another monument to the administration's destructive energy policies.
Byden doesn't think it's possible for observers to mine and protect U.S. natural resources at the same time, although miners have done so after for decades.
< p>The Antiquities Act of 1906 allows presidents of the United States to set aside federal lands for national monuments to protect historic sites. President Barack Obama, while in office, used this law to seize millions of acres of land and ban oil and gas development on those lands.