The United States is spending billions to enrich uranium on American soil. Isn't the US party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons!
The MAGA regime is defiantly telling the rest of world that the exception to nuclear non-proliferation are the US, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea etc ..
Doesn't that bother anyone?
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The article notes that the enrichment is for fuel to power fission reactors in the United States and that we are presently dependent on enriched uranium from Russia and this is a means eliminate that as a possible stranglehold for electrical production in the United States.
Someone chime in here and correct me. In the ~1980s, at LLNL, AVLIS was built to enrich, uranium, then ended the AVLIS program when there was a “glut” of uranium on the market from Russia/Soviet Union? Around the year 2,000, UC/LLNL had a huge layoff of AVLIS subcontractors.
Avlis layoffs for the technological staff was in 1999, then a couple years later they (some?) were hired for what was called the Nova upgrade program. Now you have a bunch of 20 year olds running around saying that the lab never had any layoffs.
The permanent five nations have a special status in the NPT. Our enrichment has nothing whatsoever to do with “MAGA”. It is legal, above board, and extremely good for the world.
Wouldn't it be extremely good for the world, by the same logic, for Russia or China to enrich? I do agree we are a force for good, by the way, but your argument lacks clarity.
A lack of enrichment is not the problem. Our present once through use of fuel cannot continue. Reprocessing and breeding must be developed for there to be a future for fission. China has been stockpiling uranium for decades because of this.
The OP clearly has no understanding of the NPT, the nature of enrichment, or the obligations of the P5. To answer the question, “yes, it bothers me” that such ignorance persists about basic facts.
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