Posted on 11/19/2024 8:44:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The good news is that nuclear power — safe, clean, affordable, and carbon-free — has been coming back in a big way here in the USA in recent months. The weird news is that it's generally left-leaning tech firms and AI's ravenous need for electricity leading the charge (SWIDT?) to build new nuclear power plants or spin shuttered ones back up.
The bad news is that voters of this country were twice reckless enough to put people like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton in charge — and now Russia is putting the kibosh on the uranium exports we need for nuclear power.
The bad news is that the voters of this country were twice reckless enough to put people like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton in charge — and now Russia is putting the kibosh on the uranium exports we need for nuclear power.
Bloomberg reported this week that "Russia is temporarily limiting exports of enriched uranium to the U.S., creating potential supply risks to utilities operating American reactors that generate almost a fifth of the nation’s electricity.
"Utilities tend to make purchases well in advance," the report continued, "so any impact is unlikely to be immediate." However, "To break the dependence on Russia and other state-owned enterprises, coordinated western responses are required,” Veronica Baker, spokeswoman for Canadian uranium mining company Cameco, said in a statement.
The only US-based commercial enrichment facility is located in New Mexico and is owned by Urenco Ltd, a British, Dutch, and German consortium. (Also: "Urenco," really? Did nobody who speaks English bother to sound that out before they slapped the name on the company letterhead?) The Biden administration did what it always does and threw money at the problem with "a multibillion-dollar effort to restart the nation’s domestic uranium
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“[The] United States used to produce its own nuclear materials for bombs and then for nuclear energy, and it was the Clinton administration they made this deal with the Russians way back in the 90s to purchase all of this down blended material from, you know, the decommission nuclear warheads from Russia,” Seamus Bruner, co-author of “Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties," told Solomon on Monday
There's much less call for domestic enrichment when the supplies come from overseas. Giving Russia control of our unprocessed uranium boosted Russian enrichment facilities at the expense of our own.
For anyone still in doubt, Uranium DOES NOT come from Uranus.
It is easy blaming Clinton, Obama and Biden but what did Bush and Trump do to reverse those decisions?
I was at one time very active in uranium exploration and development in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. I knew the industry well when Hillary made the horrendous deal that left foreign entities control the uranium supplies.
I suspect the Russian/Ukrainian war will be over in less than three months.
We will be getting a new President who desires peace, not a white person vs. white person bloodbath.
Really????
Damn. The what good is my Anium????
Oldplayer, are there significant deposits of uranium in the Powder River Basin in WY?
Yeah.
I won’t be one of those saying “What did Bush and Trump do about it?” and will stick with putting the blame SQUARELY AND WITHOUT RESERVATION where it belongs
On Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
BTTT
Very good; now millions of demonKKKrats will sleep easier tonite. LOL.
Uranium comes from uranium mines. The US doesn’t have much, if any. God put it elsewhere, mostly Russia and Kazahkstan. Australia and Canada have some.
When it comes out of the ground it is 99.3% U238. 0.7% U235.
U235 is the good stuff.
So you grind up the rock, dissolve it in special chemicals. This can be viewed as pre-processing. But it’s sometimes called “enriched”, which it is not.
Enriching is done by getting that 0.7% up to 5% for reactor fuel. 90% for weapons.
Typical way is with a centrifuge. U238 has 3 more neutrons and is thus a tiny bit heavier. You spin it up and the 238 moves outwards, leaving the 235 inward. Open the container, scrape out the 238 (not literally, figuratively), close the container and spin some more.
That sort of thing. That’s how you enrich uranium, meaning get the 0.7% up to 5%. Takes a very long time.
Oldplayer is correct
As we all know, once the “deep state” and all its various cronies create a policy, all the Uniparty players just play along, don’t question it, and establish their channels of grift.
environmentalists, and Fed.gov at many levels were busy shutting down nuclear power and making existing plants outrageously expensive. The propaganda told us Green energy would propel us into the future. Remember “drill baby drill?” Yes, fracked oil and gas was super-cheap as well. 20 years ago, if you proposed building new nuclear plants, you would be viewed as Satan.
For Sure, the Clinton’s got obscenely rich off the Uranium One deal. But that’s what you get with the Uniparty and bloated deep state - corruption and herd mentality.
Oh yeah.
I think we have a good grasp on that Deep State dynamic works...
My memory is that Bill Clinton locked up some of our uranium in a national monument. In Utah if memory serves.
“Oldplayer, are there significant deposits of uranium in the Powder River Basin in WY?”
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The Powder River Basin is a major U.S. uranium province with large open-pit mines and in-situ leach mines. Most are now mothballed. I haven’t been involved in awhile and don’t know personally whether any are now operating.
And in this new world, where we have allowed Russia to invade a neighboring country and annex it's land in Europe, what do you think China will eventually do regarding Taiwan?
Lock her up.
Also, uranium is a relatively abundant substance, being more abundant than lead, sulfur, chromium and other useful substances. Finding reasonably concentrated deposits that can be usefully exploited is the trick. But even low concentrations in low-grade deposits can be profitable. For instance, Florida phosphate mines used for fertilizer production, produce a small amount of uranium found in conjunction with the phosphate.
Lol!
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