As a result, they are among the lowest-cost and lowest-impact sources of uranium in the United States., making them clean energy assets." In a final blow to the domestic nuclear energy industry, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request by electric power utility Talen Energy to increase the amount of power one of its nuclear plants in Pennsylvania supplies to a nearby data center operated by Amazon, sending shockwaves throughout the advanced reactor industry. Perhaps the best uranium news during the Biden Administration was the 2021 acquisition by Texas-based Uranium Energy Corporation of uranium assets previously transferred to Russia's Uranium One Investments Inc. The deal returned to American hands about 100,000 acres in Wyoming's uranium-producing Powder River and Great Divide Basins.