{"id":2120,"date":"2024-01-23T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/one-of-first-us-uranium-mines-opens-near-grand-canyon-after-eight-years\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:55:31","slug":"one-of-first-us-uranium-mines-opens-near-grand-canyon-after-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/one-of-first-us-uranium-mines-opens-near-grand-canyon-after-eight-years\/","title":{"rendered":"One of first US uranium mines opens near Grand Canyon after eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinyon Plain\u2019s start comes amid US\u2019s push to boost production, but tribes fear contamination of water and cultural sites<\/p>\n<p>A uranium mine in Arizona located just 7 miles south of the Grand Canyon national park has begun operations, one of the first in the US to open in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the Pinyon Plain mine comes as the US seeks to boost domestic production of the mineral needed for nuclear energy and accelerate divesting from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/23\/us-uranium-mine-grand-canyon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinyon Plain\u2019s start comes amid US\u2019s push to boost production, but tribes fear contamination of water and cultural sites A uranium mine in Arizona located just 7 miles south of the Grand Canyon national park has begun operations, one of the first in the US to open in eight years. The opening of the Pinyon &#8230; <a title=\"One of first US uranium mines opens near Grand Canyon after eight years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/one-of-first-us-uranium-mines-opens-near-grand-canyon-after-eight-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about One of first US uranium mines opens near Grand Canyon after eight years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}