• OT: US shot itself in the foot again

    From Jan Panteltje@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 9 10:10:36 2024
    The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html

    Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
    A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
    Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.

    ...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
    alls taken apart for green power.

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  • From Bill Sloman@21:1/5 to Jan Panteltje on Mon Sep 9 23:51:23 2024
    On 9/09/2024 8:10 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html

    Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
    A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
    Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.

    ...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
    all taken apart for green power.

    Don't be silly. It's coming from the left-over nuclear arsenal. Nuclear
    weapons don't last forever. The uranium does, but the trigger mechanism doesn't, and the warhead has to fit into the delivery system and the
    delivery systems get up-graded from time to time and the old warheads
    aren't the right shape to fit in the new delivery systems.

    It's not that difficult to enrich uranium - the Iranians are doing it
    right now - and the Americans can refurbish their old enrichment lines,
    or build new ones. You do need lots of expensive plant to do it, but you
    can buy it off the shelf these days.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Jan Panteltje@21:1/5 to bill.sloman@ieee.org on Tue Sep 10 05:35:00 2024
    On a sunny day (Mon, 9 Sep 2024 23:51:23 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vbmugr$2e4fh$1@dont-email.me>:

    On 9/09/2024 8:10 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
    The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html

    Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
    A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
    Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.

    ...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
    all taken apart for green power.

    Don't be silly. It's coming from the left-over nuclear arsenal. Nuclear >weapons don't last forever. The uranium does, but the trigger mechanism >doesn't, and the warhead has to fit into the delivery system and the
    delivery systems get up-graded from time to time and the old warheads
    aren't the right shape to fit in the new delivery systems.

    It's not that difficult to enrich uranium - the Iranians are doing it
    right now - and the Americans can refurbish their old enrichment lines,
    or build new ones. You do need lots of expensive plant to do it, but you
    can buy it off the shelf these days.

    A few days ago I was reading an article about that installing replacement ICBMs was having big problems.
    Was it on RT or CNN?
    well google finds similar articles:
    https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/7/8/just-in-defense-department-says-no-alternative-to-troubled-icbm-program

    The old ones worked, the new onss are like Starliner spacecraft or Bo[e]ing airplanes :-)
    Over budget and unreliable...

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