Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Babban kayan aikin aikin shine uranium, wanda aka yi amfani dashi azaman mai don masu aikin, azaman abincin da aka canza zuwa plutonium, kuma, a cikin wadataccen tsari, a cikin bam din nukiliya kanta. Akwai sanannun manyan wuraren ajiyar uranium guda huɗu a cikin 1940: a Colorado, a arewacin Kanada, a Joachimsthal a Czechoslovakia, da kuma a Congo ta Belgium. Duk sai dai Joachimstal sun kasance a hannun Allies. Wani binciken Nuwamba 1942 ya ƙaddara cewa akwai wadataccen uranium don biyan bukatun aikin. Nichols ya shirya tare da Ma'aikatar Harkokin Wajen don sarrafa fitarwa da za a sanya a kan uranium oxide kuma ya yi shawarwari don siyan ƙananan tan 1,200 (1,100 t) na ma'adinan uranium daga Congo na Belgian wanda aka adana a cikin sito a Staten Island da sauran ragowar ma'adinan da aka adana a Congo. Ya yi shawarwari tare da Eldorado Gold Mines don siyan ma'adinai daga matatar ta a Port Hope, Ontario, da jigilar ta a cikin tarin tan 100. Gwamnatin Kanada daga baya ta sayi hannun jari na kamfanin har sai ta sami ikon sarrafawa.Yayin da waɗannan sayayya suka tabbatar da wadataccen wadata don biyan bukatun lokacin yaƙi, shugabannin Amurka da na Burtaniya sun yanke shawarar cewa yana da fa'idar ƙasashensu su mallaki yawancin ma'adinan uranium na duniya kamar yadda zai yiwu. Tushen ma'adinai mafi arziki shi ne Shinkolobwe mine a Congo na Belgium, amma an ambaliya kuma an rufe shi. Nichols ba tare da nasara ba ya yi ƙoƙarin yin shawarwari game da sake buɗewa da sayar da duk abin da za a samar a nan gaba zuwa Amurka tare da Edgar Sengier, darektan kamfanin da ke mallakar ma'adinai, Union Minière du Haut Katanga. Bayan haka, Kwamitin Harkokin Kasuwanci ya ɗauki batun. Kamar yadda kashi 30 cikin dari na hannun jari na Union Minière ya mallaki mallakar Birtaniya, Birtaniya ta jagoranci tattaunawa. Sir John Anderson da Ambasada John Winant sun kulla yarjejeniya tare da Sengier da gwamnatin Belgium a watan Mayu na 1944 don a sake buɗe ma'adinan kuma a sayi ƙananan tan 1,720 (1,560 t) na ma'adinai a $ 1.45 fam. Don kauce wa dogara ga...  Tambaya: A wace shekara ce aka fara samar da iskar gas mai tsabta?
Shekara ta 1942