Foreign Uranium

There's been a lot of talk about nuclear power lately and I got to thinking about where the Uranium for these plants would come from. After all, we'd not be much better off if we had the same problem with foreign Uranium as we do with foreign oil.

According to the World Nuclear Association, half of the world's Uranium production is from just three countries, Australia, Canada and Kazakhstan. The remainder comes from 15 or so countries including the United States which only produces about 5 percent of world production. Currently we import a whopping 95 percent of our Uranium.

According to the CIA Fact Book the USA imports 58 percent of its petroleum.

I guess what I'm wondering, if we go nuclear, are we going to be dangerously dependent on foreign mines?

And we still haven't figured out what to do with the thousands of tons of nuclear waste these plants would produce.