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Don't know if this has been posted yet. Got it from an 8chan post. Pretty damning evidence on U1.

https://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4288&mn=264066&pt=msg&mid=17666662

BY JOHN SOLOMON AND ALISON SPANN

After the Obama administration approved the sale of a Canadian mining company with significant U.S. uranium reserves to a firm owned by Russia's government, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured Congress and the public the new owners couldn't export any raw nuclear fuel from America's shores.

"No uranium produced at either facility may be exported," the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.

A year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in a letter to Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican in whose state Uranium One operated mines.

"Neither Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium for use in reactor fuel," then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.

The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post's official fact-checker site this week. "We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have," the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.

NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the "other parties to Export."

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Officials at RSB, Cameco and Rosatom did not return repeated phone calls or emails seeking comment
1,010 posted on 05/04/2018 12:16:32 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Mama Shawna

Like handing a murderer the weapon before they kill you.

Thank you for your post.


1,012 posted on 05/04/2018 12:19:46 PM PDT by StormFlag (Drain the swamp, but don't forget the disinfectant.)
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To: Mama Shawna

Good post..tks. Informative.


1,016 posted on 05/04/2018 12:24:25 PM PDT by STARLIT (Trust The Plan.Apr 21 2018 14:35:58 (EST) Anonymous ID: 03b5fb 1133796 america-has-spoken.png >>11)
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To: Mama Shawna

Massive.


1,032 posted on 05/04/2018 12:54:19 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Mama Shawna

One of the departments that can be eliminated almost overnight with no impact would be the Department of Energy. This abomination was created by Carter, if memory serves.

Regulating the nuclear space should got to DOD. Put the approval process for reactors in the hands of an O-4, which a regular 3 year duty turn.

In fact, hand it to the Navy. They know what they’re doing and their safety record is awful good.

Look at the money and corruption by the boards.


1,037 posted on 05/04/2018 12:57:57 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Mama Shawna

That 12 million kg works out to a bit over 13 thousand tons.

Somebody’s going to get a noose around his/her neck for this shit.


1,322 posted on 05/04/2018 3:59:00 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (...against all enemies, foreign or domestic...)
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To: Mama Shawna

Mama Shawna wrote:

“Don’t know if this has been posted yet. Got it from an 8chan post. Pretty damning evidence on U1.

https://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4288&mn=264066&pt=msg&mid=17666662

“BY JOHN SOLOMON AND ALISON SPANN

After the Obama administration approved the sale of a Canadian mining company with significant U.S. uranium reserves to a firm owned by Russia’s government, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assured Congress and the public the new owners couldn’t export any raw nuclear fuel from America’s shores.

“No uranium produced at either facility may be exported,” the NRC declared in a November 2010 press release that announced that ARMZ, a subsidiary of the Russian state-owned Rosatom, had been approved to take ownership of the Uranium One mining firm and its American assets.

A year later, the nuclear regulator repeated the assurance in a letter to Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican in whose state Uranium One operated mines.

“Neither Uranium One Inc. nor AMRZ holds a specific NRC export license. In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the exports of uranium for use in reactor fuel,” then-NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko wrote to Barrasso.

The NRC never issued an export license to the Russian firm, a fact so engrained in the narrative of the Uranium One controversy that it showed up in The Washington Post’s official fact-checker site this week. “We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license, which Rosatom does not have,” the Post reported on Monday, linking to the 2011 Barrasso letter.

Yet NRC memos reviewed by The Hill show that it did approve the shipment of yellowcake uranium - the raw material used to make nuclear fuel and weapons - from the Russian-owned mines in the United States to Canada in 2012 through a third party. Later, the Obama administration approved some of that uranium going all the way to Europe, government documents show.

NRC officials said they could not disclose the total amount of uranium that Uranium One exported because the information is proprietary. They did, however, say that the shipments only lasted from 2012 to 2014 and that they are unaware of any exports since then.

NRC officials told The Hill that Uranium One exports flowed from Wyoming to Canada and on to Europe between 2012 and 2014, and the approval involved a process with multiple agencies.

Rather than give Rosatom a direct export license - which would have raised red flags inside a Congress already suspicious of the deal - the NRC in 2012 authorized an amendment to an existing export license for a Paducah, Ky.-based trucking firm called RSB Logistics Services Inc. to simply add Uranium One to the list of clients whose uranium it could move to Canada.

The license, reviewed by The Hill, is dated March 16, 2012, and it increased the amount of uranium ore concentrate that RSB Logistics could ship to the Cameco Corp. plant in Ontario from 7,500,000 kilograms to 12,000,000 kilograms and added Uranium One to the “other parties to Export.”

The move escaped notice in Congress.

Officials at RSB, Cameco and Rosatom did not return repeated phone calls or emails seeking comment””

Illary & 0 were in up to their necks in this....


1,405 posted on 05/04/2018 4:56:12 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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