Domestic uranium mining industry and the Department of Energy's Uranium Enrichment Program. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, March 9, and 13, 1987

The hearing of March 9 concentrated on the issues of uranium mining, our dependence now and in the future on imported uranium ore, the importance to our national security of a viable domestic uranium industry, and the cost of cleaning up the uranium mill-tailings piles at existing uranium mill sites. In addition to brief statements by Sens. Domenici, Bingaman and J. Bennett Johnson, testimony was provided by two officials of the Dept. of Energy and officials of the American Nuclear Energy Council, the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, Edison Electric Institute, and Uranium Producers of America. Using the background information provided by the hearing of March 9, the hearing of March 13, health with the enormous problems of the present DOE Uranium Enrichment Program. In addition to testimonies from officials from some of the organizations above, key testimonies were provided by D. David Rossin, Ass't. Secretary for Nuclear Energy, DOE; John Longnecker, Deputy Ass't. Secretary for Uranium Enrichment, DOE; and Edward S. Christenbury, general counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority. Appendixes include responses to additional committee questions from each hearing and additional material submitted for the record