Virginia county at a crossroads as U.S. Supreme Court hears uranium case

Energy News Network: Sun splashed across pasture and resting cattle on a sunny, late October day. The tranquil atmosphere didn’t hint at the massive cache of uranium lying just beneath the grass and soil, nor at the legal fight brewing over it before the nation’s highest court.

As the nuclear industry makes a play for a bigger role in a carbon-free economy, Virginia sits on enough raw fuel to power the sector without any of the geopolitical baggage of its existing sources — but tapping it would mean importing the environmental risks that come with uranium mining, too.

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