Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power
Noor Al-Sibai
created: Feb. 3, 2025, 10:36 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.
<p>Mining Doubt If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports — and it very much looks like he will — it will devastate the nuclear energy market. As Reuters reports, the Canadian mining companies that supplied more than a quarter of the United States' uranium needs in 2023 — which fuels our nuclear energy plants and, to a lesser extent, our scientific research and industrial manufacturing — are already feeling the brunt of Trump's tariff threats. Though the president included a quote-unquote "carve-out" for Canadian oil, uranium, coal, electricity, and natural gas, those […]</p>
5 months, 1 week ago: Futurism