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...area larger than all of New England, will enrich our whole country. New irrigation and power dams will increase the productivity of some 360,000 acres of land, but even more important it will open up the basin's wealth of lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil and uranium...
...Plan (sabotaged by the Russians), the U.S. has again and again offered to make the peaceful atom available to other qualified nations on almost any reasonable basis. Last week President Eisenhower took one more unprecedented step in the same direction by authorizing the release of 88,000 Ibs. of uranium 235 for long-range power development and research in the U.S. and abroad...
...will lease their share from the Government) and foreign developers (who will either buy or lease). No U-235 will be consigned to nations already producing it, e.g., Great Britain, or under present terms, the Soviet Union and its satellites. "Prudent safeguards" will be taken to ensure that the uranium is not diverted to nonpeaceful uses, said the President...
...URANIUM BOOM will exceed all estimates, predicts Henry C. Anderson, planning manager for General Electric's atomic-power department. By 1975 atom-powered electric plants will be consuming 22,150 tons of uranium annually. Amount of ore required: 9,000,000 tons, several times current production...
Mining. Despite predictions that thorium will displace uranium as the primary fuel for nuclear power plants, the committee said that both will be needed. But the committee raised a warning flag against overexpansion in uranium mining and milling. "If military requirements fall off during the early part of the forecast growth of atomic power, a surplus over civilian needs may exist." The committee recommended that AEC ease off on uranium ore-buying, let uranium find its natural price in a free market...