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Uranium Boom Reaches Jeffrey City and Beyond
Jeffrey City Wyoming illustrates a wider uranium boom as prices soar and production doubles since 1973. Major firms and oil companies entangle in contracts, lawsuits, and environmental concerns while communities strain to attract workers and professionals to remote mining towns.
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Jeffrey City
United States
Western Nuclear Co
Phelps-Dodge Corp
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Exxon
Shell
Gulf
Kerr- McGee
Richmond
Westinghouse
Pat Petree
Kerr McGee
Earth
Atomic Energy Commission
The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
AEC