Nuclear Fuel
Turns out that the nuclear industry in the US, which being hamstrung by idiots, still provides 10% of our power, is in turn 45% powered by Soviet nukes.
The nuclear material from Soviet warheads being decommissioned has been a major source of power for this country. So yes, there is about a 5% chance that your electricity is coming from a warhead which was not so long ago pointed at you with the intention of ending life on earth.
The downside is that without further armament drawdowns, we will be running out of russian reactor rods. The treaty Obama and the Russians signed was all about active warheads and delivery systems, not total warheads. The sad truth is that with the limited (read: none) growth of the nuclear industry over the last 30 years, we have basically stopped our production and mining of uranium etc.
In other words, we discovered the most efficient, most environmentally friendly, most advanced, least harmful and all around best way to generate power... and then gave up on it because of fears of a nuclear meltdown which have only happened once, in Russia.
The idiotic things the human race does. Anyway, hopefully we can get more of the Russian stuff because it finally looks like the nuclear industry in the US might have a second chance at life, but they will need fuel to make it happen.
The nuclear material from Soviet warheads being decommissioned has been a major source of power for this country. So yes, there is about a 5% chance that your electricity is coming from a warhead which was not so long ago pointed at you with the intention of ending life on earth.
The downside is that without further armament drawdowns, we will be running out of russian reactor rods. The treaty Obama and the Russians signed was all about active warheads and delivery systems, not total warheads. The sad truth is that with the limited (read: none) growth of the nuclear industry over the last 30 years, we have basically stopped our production and mining of uranium etc.
In other words, we discovered the most efficient, most environmentally friendly, most advanced, least harmful and all around best way to generate power... and then gave up on it because of fears of a nuclear meltdown which have only happened once, in Russia.
The idiotic things the human race does. Anyway, hopefully we can get more of the Russian stuff because it finally looks like the nuclear industry in the US might have a second chance at life, but they will need fuel to make it happen.
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