OT: US shot itself in the foot again

[Jan Panteltje]

The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html

Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.

...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
alls taken apart for green power.

[Bill Sloman]

Post by Jan Panteltje
The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html
Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.
...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
all taken apart for green power.

Don't be silly. It's coming from the left-over nuclear arsenal. Nuclear
weapons don't last forever. The uranium does, but the trigger mechanism
doesn't, and the warhead has to fit into the delivery system and the
delivery systems get up-graded from time to time and the old warheads
aren't the right shape to fit in the new delivery systems.

It's not that difficult to enrich uranium - the Iranians are doing it
right now - and the Americans can refurbish their old enrichment lines,
or build new ones. You do need lots of expensive plant to do it, but you
can buy it off the shelf these days.

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Mon, 9 Sep 2024 23:51:23 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman

Post by Bill Sloman

Post by Jan Panteltje
The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html
Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.
...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
all taken apart for green power.

Don't be silly. It's coming from the left-over nuclear arsenal. Nuclear
weapons don't last forever. The uranium does, but the trigger mechanism
doesn't, and the warhead has to fit into the delivery system and the
delivery systems get up-graded from time to time and the old warheads
aren't the right shape to fit in the new delivery systems.
It's not that difficult to enrich uranium - the Iranians are doing it
right now - and the Americans can refurbish their old enrichment lines,
or build new ones. You do need lots of expensive plant to do it, but you
can buy it off the shelf these days.

A few days ago I was reading an article about that installing replacement ICBMs was having big problems.
Was it on RT or CNN?
well google finds similar articles:
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/7/8/just-in-defense-department-says-no-alternative-to-troubled-icbm-program

The old ones worked, the new onss are like Starliner spacecraft or Bo[e]ing airplanes :-)
Over budget and unreliable...

[Bill Sloman]

Post by Jan Panteltje
The US is dismantling nuclear warheads to power the next generation of reactors
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/09/climate/nuclear-warheads-haleu/index.html
Until last year, the United States got the vast majority of its enriched uranium from Russia.
A bipartisan law passed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put a stop to that.
Now, scientists and companies are racing to produce it at home.
...so now no more ICBMs that work ;-)
all taken apart for green power.

Don't be silly. It's coming from the left-over nuclear arsenal. Nuclear
weapons don't last forever. The uranium does, but the trigger mechanism
doesn't, and the warhead has to fit into the delivery system and the
delivery systems get up-graded from time to time and the old warheads
aren't the right shape to fit in the new delivery systems.

It's not that difficult to enrich uranium - the Iranians are doing it
right now - and the Americans can refurbish their old enrichment lines,
or build new ones. You do need lots of expensive plant to do it, but you
can buy it off the shelf these days.