AMERICA ' S NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY CHAIN BEGINS WITH WYOMING

The people of Wyoming are proud of our energy and mining heritage. We are America’s leading producer of coal, uranium, trona, and bentonite. As members of the Wyoming Mining Association, your hard work powers America’s economy and provides abundant, affordable, and secure energy to American families.

Americans count on Wyoming energy for gasoline and diesel fuel for our cars and trucks. Natural gas powers and heats our homes in the winter. We rely on coal and uranium to generate our electricity. Tens of thousands of Americans have jobs that rely on production of Wyoming oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium.

Wyoming is the country’s largest producer of coal. We’re also leading the way on the development of carbon capture. The Integrated Test Center in Gillette provides space for research teams to test carbon capture technologies. It gives researchers the opportunity to use carbon dioxide emissions directly from a coal-fired power plant. In 2020, President Trump signed my bill, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act, into law. The USE IT Act supports more groundbreaking research in the field of converting carbon emissions into valuable and marketable products. The development of both carbon capture technologies and coal-to-products will promote the long-term use of Wyoming’s abundant coal reserves.

Wyoming is blessed with abundant natural resources. We must not leave these vital resources buried in the ground. But that’s exactly what the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are trying to do. They’re doing this through endless regulations, executive actions and partisan legislation. They’re shutting the door on American energy independence.

This will hurt Wyoming communities, kill jobs, and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Worst of all, it’s all happening in the midst of a recession where families in Wyoming and across the country are facing 40-year record high inflation and unaffordable gas prices.

Instead of undermining American resource production, we should be unleashing it.

This means using the critical minerals we have here at home. In order to do that, we have to speed up the approval process for mines right away. This will allow us to secure our supply chain and stop relying on China and Russia for these valuable resources.

BY: US SENATOR, JOHN BARRASSO

It is also vital we establish a long-term plan for American-mined uranium for a strategic reserve. Nuclear power is key to our national security. It’s time to use the vast uranium resources we have in Wyoming.

I introduced three bills earlier this year to jumpstart our nuclear fuel supply chain.

The first bill would ban imports of Russian uranium. We must remove all Russian energy from the American marketplace. Banning Russian uranium imports will further defund Russia’s war machine and help revive American uranium production.

The second bill will establish a national strategic uranium reserve. This reserve will help strengthen uranium production in Wyoming. Having this access to American produced uranium is critical to both our energy and national security. We should not be reliant on our adversaries for fuel we have at home.

Finally, my third bill will help the Department of Energy and our commercial sector make a supply of American high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU) available. This supply will be used to power advanced nuclear reactors like TerraPower’s Natrium reactor, which will be located in Kemmerer.

Together, these three bills will ensure our nuclear fuel supply chain begins with Wyoming uranium and ends with American energy.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should teach us that we can’t go back to paying our adversaries for resources we can produce here. America’s energy future needs to be made in the United States.

Thank you for the important work that you do, and I look forward to continuing to work with the members of the Wyoming Mining Association.

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