A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.
In an email sent to WKMS, General Matter said that the company intends to make a “historic investment in American nuclear infrastructure” by restoring a shuttered facility in Paducah. The gaseous diffusion plant in McCracken County, which ceased operations in 2013, was built by the U.S. government in the 1950s to bolster national defense efforts – and later to generate fuel for nuclear power plants.
Oh wow, good to see California and Kentucky working so closely together these days on so many important things.
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It just goes to show that no matter who you are, Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, we can all come together over as recipients of Thiel money Americans.
Oh yes, lets give the billionaires access to nukes, that sounds safe, I’m sure we can trust them.
I asked ChatGPT and it said this was fine. I asked Grok and it said this was based and cool.
Why do all y’all jump to nukes with this story!? He clearly wants more power for his AI schemes. No conspiracy, the motivation is simple.
U235 enrichment:
Power plant: 3-5%.
Weapons grade: 90%+
Even a bugfuck administration like Trump’s isn’t going to allow private enterprise to produce weapons-grade fissile material without serious fucking oversight and total control over every step. Why would any government give up their most powerful weapons?
On top of that, it takes hella tech to assemble a thermonuclear weapon. Every government that has a solid intelligence apparatus tracks the tools, scientists and materials involved. An atom bomb is not a hydrogen bomb, not by an order of magnitude, and you can’t exactly hide the means for rolling your own Little Boy.
Not trying to bag on you OP, just feel like I’m taking crazy pills when we think a billionaire could get access to nukes.
The same admin that fired like half the nrc because they didn’t know what they did?
The technology behind 5% and 90% is the same.
enriched uranium is not a nuke by itself
Yet.
They already have them:
trump, putin, xi, the unholy trinity axis of evil
Netanyahu, although they refuse to acknowledge it.
Eventually, the writer for every 80s movie villain is going to get pissed and sue these billionaires for ripping off all his idea.
Ever read Clancy’s The Sum of all Fears? Even having obfuscated some facts, building a nuke is simply impossible without every intelligence agency on Earth knowing about it.
Terrorists dropping a “fizzle” on the Super Bowl required many narrative acrobatics. 1,532 things had to go wrong for them to slip that through. And it still fizzled.
“I tried you warn you, but no, you took it as a challenge!”
I would treat the Billionaires like Iran…control their access to nukes.
I won’t be surprised when some of this uranium mysteriously goes missing and then no one is held accountable.
Thiel is all-in an AI. AI requires monstrous amounts of power. Nothing to see here.
I can’t stop these animals from pursuing AI, but I’m happy they’re going all out for nuclear power. Anything but fossil fuels is a win in my book.
I gotta get off of this planet.
Where’s my towel?
Hey hey monkey man, you keep that shit on Earth.
The probability of Zaphod showing up in this comment thread is roughly equivalent to a sperm whale suddenly being called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
Somehow he must power his network state islands so he can leave us poors to die on the mainland.
Billionaires with nukes, just what we need.
Drop a bunker buster on it!!
Oh for fuck sake, what??
I smell a new RPG from Bethesda.
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Yes, I have seen the movie Silkwood.
Maybe 45 minutes from there is a little reservoir based vacation area called ‘Kentucky dam village’ that was the location of a family reunion trip that is legendarily hellish in my family from 20 something years ago. Also the moment when my immediate family more or less cut off all contact with another part of the family.
Maybe you csn make amends over the next 10 years, then give the trip another go and all end up mutant zombies from the inevitable toxic waste spill.
