Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that sanctions to date had only been imposed on Russian individuals and companies but Australia could consider "other options".
Uranium mining for America's Cold War nuclear arms buildup has proved a lasting scourge on the nation's largest American Indian reservation, and one that the same government that demanded the ore has been slow to address.
China' wants astronauts on the moon early 2020s. Filling one shuttle's cargo bay with helium-3 could bring the equivalent energy of 1bn barrels of oil back to earth.