Posted on 09/28/2015 10:11:22 PM PDT by george76
The Obama administration plans to close the last remaining American-owned uranium enrichment facility in the United States, even as it moves forward on a controversial nuclear deal with Iran that permits the Islamic Republic to conduct ongoing and significant uranium enrichment.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has informed Centrus Energy it will end the American Centrifuge project in Piketon, Ohio, on Sept. 30. Notices have been issued to some 235 workers that their jobs are in jeopardy.
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This is beyond belief," Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, responded in a statement. "While this administration is greenlighting uranium enrichment in Iran and legitimizing 6,000 Iranian centrifuges, they're shutting down domestic production here in America."
Wenstrup called the closure decision "a dangerous threat to our national security."
In its announcement that it will shutter American Centrifuge, the DOE announced the enrichment technologies developed at Piketon may be transferred to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
As recently as 20 years ago, the United States produced nearly 50 percent of the global supply of enriched uranium. Today, however, U.S. production accounts for only about 10 percent of the global supply, with Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Holland producing the bulk of the world's enriched uranium.
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cuts in U.S. enrichment capability are "potentially causing" U.S. nuclear plants to become dependent on foreign fuel sources. U.S. enriched uranium also plays an important role in powering U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.
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I know. I know...
unmentioned in the article is the amount of stockpiled previously enriched uranium.
aside from the jobs angle in Ohio, given the capability at Oak Ridge and the size of the stockpile, additional enrichment at the current level might not be justified.
the sequester requires cutting. this might be a justified cut of what in reality is pork
I know, I know...
He says he’s going to accomplish a lot of things in his has month. Sure wish he’d find one good thing and spend his time on that.
Wishful thinking out loud is not for amateurs. LOL
hussein is standing by his muslim bros, again.
The plan continues.
And the liberals will never quite figure out how it happened.
Oy vey
Another area for Trump to expand the economy. Restart the uranium industry.
Time for Oboe from Nairobi to begin that third term......his first...at Leavenworth Kansas
Its not 2 years,it is 16 months.
The thing is I don’t want people like him to leave office under their own terms I want them forced from office for criminal behaviour.
A government needs to have a profound respect people who elect it. Despots and criminals should not be rewarded for their activities by legal retirement from office.
Sorry to say... it does take awhile for DUMBA$$ES to wake up.
where are the spineless wusses that begged to be elected to the House and the Senate so they could stop the DiC and his beard?
No Problem.
We can get all the enriched uranium we need from Iran.
PLEASE STOP blaming America and Americans for Obama’s election.
HE CHEATED on both elections by counting the cemetery vote and
by throwing OTD* ballot boxes in the rivers and furnaces.
*Other Than Democrat
The vote early and vote often crowd helped a lot by voting 115%
for Obama/Biden. Yes, they voted and voted and voted.
Obama has never actually won an election fair and square. He has
cheated on every one of them, one way or another. Just ask Jack
Ryan.
NOPE.
We will have to buy it from HILLARY’s friend, Frank Giustra, or George Soros.
If you honestly think Americans didn't get the President the majority voted for, then run with it.
Oh. I guess you weren’t there when we found boxes of
Republican ballots floating in San Francisco Bay.
The bloody idiots didn’t even have the brains to
weigh them down so that they didn’t float.
Gee, who would have done such a thing? It certainly
wasn’t the Republican voters.
If you’re not paying attention, then you can’t be
impressed.
I suppose Obama would have lost California if those votes had been counted.
I didn't say there was no fraud, only that Obama didn't win because of it.
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