Uranium

Uranium is a powerful resource, but it is also a mixed blessing. Uranium can light a town or power a submarine, but it can also destroy a city. Areas around nuclear power plants, which use uranium to create energy, can become dead zones if the nuclear reactions become unstable. And yet nuclear power can also be one of the cleanest sources of energy. The countries of North America have always had plentiful natural resources. But the exploitation of these resources comes at a cost, and in certa…