MINING NEWS: Nuclear power for Alaska mines?Initiative could lead developers to add small reactors to their bag of tricks for extracting minerals economically in remote operations Rose Ragsdale Mining News Contributing Writer
Thanks to a gutsy move by the tiny Yukon River village of Galena, mine developers across the state could soon possess a new option for solving one of their biggest headaches — find a cheap source of power for their operations.
Galena, like most remote Alaska communities, is virtually held captive b....
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