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"McCain wants to increase our reliance on nuclear energy. 92% of the uranium used in civilian power plants is IMPORTED - 32% is imported from RUSSIA."
...As in 'facts, traditionally defined as stuff that's true'. Most of the world's uranium is currently being produced by Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan. The US has plenty of uranium reserves in several states, but we are just emerging from years of domination by the flat-earth fundamentalists, and have not been allowed to mine it. In fact, the fundies just inveigled Congress - in the middle of an economic crisis - into locking up a million acres of uranium reserves right here in Arizona, on grounds that the Grand Canyon is located in the same state.
Another four hundred Dow points lost today, as Congress fiddles while the uranium doesn't burn.
