Re: OT: US shot itself in the foot again

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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Bill Sloman, Sydney