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A lot of that uranium is sourced from the desolute wasteland in the southwest.
Indian tribes happened to occupy those quite-undesireable lands because they were forced to relocate there (or die) centuries ago, so the US gub'ment quietly set up a violent mini-dictatorship to "represent the people". Read about "Dickie Wilson" and "Incident at Oglala".
Nuclear does have some environmental advantages, at least over combustables/fossil fuels, but not much. They've gotta figure a way to use every last drop of radiation energy from the source, and not toss the rods out at 70% (or whatever).
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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