Drudge: US May Resume Plutonium Production For First Time Since Cold War

Drudge Report ^ | June 26, 2005

[RWR8189]

NATIONAL SECURITY: U.S. MAY RESUME PRODUCTION OF PLUTONIUM; FIRST TIME SINCE END OF COLD WAR... DEVELOPING...

[RWR8189]

Its Sunday night...

[Skip1]

Its Sunday night...


True, however President Bush knows that we are in a World War & maybe the gloves are coming off.

[Paul_Denton]

About time. We need to be making nukes not dismantling them.

[SamAdams76]

They can probably outsource this to China or India.

[HangnJudge]

Sounds good to me
makes a lovely fuel for nuclear reactors
both domestic and military
? use in interplanetary spaceflight

Nope, no problem here

[Kuehn12]

Back to the Future, hello Dr Strangelove. I am flexing my button finger; I can hardly wait. We are going to be in good company; China, Russia, NK, Iran. Don't get me wrong we are still the guys in the white hats, and I would trust us with nuclear weapons more than the previously mention countries. For me it's a matter message and were we are heading. Now if we are going to use the plutonium for energy generation, I am all for it.

[ElkGroveDan]

Good thing, the fission reactor on my interstellar 65 Mustang has been acting up. I've been looking for a plutonium filling station.

[scott7278]

1.21 JIGAWATTS!!!

[Willie Green]

I'm 100% all in favor of developing our nuclear technology,
but I don't understand why we need to to make more plutonium when
we're apparently incapable of reprocessing and recycling the excess that we already have.

US plutonium arrives in France for reprocessing
U.S. Plutonium Shipments Head to France
US sends plutonium to France (34 tonnes, enough for 40 nuclear bombs)
U.S. Government Ships Plutonium to France

[jpl]

Now if we are going to use the plutonium for energy generation, I am all for it.

That's exactly what we're going to be using for. We're not going to be creating any more ICBM factories.

[Sprite518]

Key word , "may"

[RightWhale]

That's the way our beloved gov't works. It's too big to have just one way of doing anything. Everything has to be multi-tracked, even different agencies doing the same thing more or less. This is decreed by Congress by specific programs with specific funding. Like the moon program. We have a new moon program. None of the old moon program will be used, not even the personnel.