President Donald Trump rejected recommendations from the Department of Commerce late Friday that likely would have revived uranium mining in Utah and beyond, but the president also created a working group to review the country’s nuclear fuel supply chain over the next 90 days.
And Trump is asking the group to identify other ways to boost the domestic uranium industry.
Environmental groups and nuclear power providers applauded the administration’s decision to not accept Commerce department recommendations to require United States power plants to source up to 25% of their uranium from domestic mines.
“Quotas on uranium imports would have a crippling impact on the economic health of the U.