next is canada with just over thirteen thousand tonnes and australia with close to six thousand. the us is in one spot the country currently produces just one and a half percent of global annual total but it s number one in terms of consumption using eighteen thousand two hundred tonnes of your. any i m in two thousand and sixteen. domestic production covers only a fraction of the u.s. is demand which is why washington is determined to expand uranium exploitation. canyon mine is said to be reopened in twenty nineteen. energy fuels expects the price of uranium to increase to over one hundred dollars a kilo by then making mining profitable here. alison meets up with fred tillman from the united states geological survey an
country currently produces just one and a half percent. global annual total but it s number one in terms of consumption using eighteen thousand two hundred tonnes of uranium in two thousand and sixteen. domestic production covers only a fraction of the u.s. is demand which is why washington is determined to expand uranium exploitation. canyon mine is said to be reopened in twenty nineteen. energy fuels expects the price of uranium to increase to over one hundred dollars a kilo by then making mining profitable here. alison meets up with fred tillman from the united states geological survey and agency that reports to the department of the interior. he wants to show her how canyon mine is being monitored. this site is
a kilo by then making mining profitable here. alison meets up with fred tillman from the united states geological survey and agency that reports to the department of the interior. he wants to show her how canyon mine is being monitored. this site is out of bounds to humans at least. you can see clearly here that wildlife is moving through to get to the pond accessing that contaminated water. the geological agency has installed a number of measuring stations so this is our perched groundwater monitoring well and it monitors the quality and the amount of groundwater in the first level system so it goes down to eleven hundred feet or so about four hundred meters it s still not deep enough to catch whether water whether the original brown water is