RE:DOD reaction, State of Alaska, and Building from scratchDragon the height of ignorance is to write copiously on a subject you very clearly do NOT understand at all, on a forum where some deluded muppets may actually pay some attention to your nonsense. If you have a shred of personal integrity you will try and find someone to explain the basics of the RE process, I've tried but you stupidly refuse to try and understand.
Lynas will have no issues with permitting in Tx simply because it plans to import only a clean carbonate that has been pre-processed in Australia, basically there is little to regulate in either the imported material or the SX process, that does NOT require acids or residues containing NORM, plus it will be an expansion of a brownfield site already processing RE.
Regardles Lynas full process have passed IAEA inspection on two occasions and been declared inherently safe, it would have no issue with residue NORM in the US as standards are nowhere near as ridiculously low as the outdated Malaysian regs.
We KNOW where Lynas feedstock is coming from, we KNOW the SX plant will cost USG $30M + Lynas $30M = $60M, we KNOW that it will produce 5ktpa REO which will likely contain 1500tpa NdPr sufficient to replace the 5ktpa NdFeB imported from China, IF the US can attract the magnet making capacity to produce high end NdFeB.
BTW, Lynas also building a HRE plant to supply the Dy/Tb if & when US develops NdFeB capability, meantime the Japanese will be ready customers, full details on that one mid year.
Ucore remains, as it has for well over a decade now, a fairytale.