Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC) Taps World’s First Significant Alternative Energy Boom
Uranium Energy Corp., a uranium exploration and development company controlling one of the largest databases of historic uranium exploration and development in the country, is sitting on top of what could be the biggest uranium boom since the advent of nuclear energy. The U.S. used to be the world’s leading producer of uranium, peaking in the 1970s with the increase in production of nuclear power plants as well as nuclear weapons. After 1980, environmental concerns over the use of nuclear power, together with the increasing availability of low cost foreign energy sources, essentially ended the construction of new nuclear power…
