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.
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.
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