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'Beyond Belief': Obama Moves to Close Last US Uranium Plant
Newsmax. ^ | 28 Sep 2015 | David A. Patten

Posted on 09/28/2015 10:11:22 PM PDT by george76

The Obama administration plans to close the last remaining American-owned uranium enrichment facility in the United States, even as it moves forward on a controversial nuclear deal with Iran that permits the Islamic Republic to conduct ongoing and significant uranium enrichment.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has informed Centrus Energy it will end the American Centrifuge project in Piketon, Ohio, on Sept. 30. Notices have been issued to some 235 workers that their jobs are in jeopardy.

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This is beyond belief," Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, responded in a statement. "While this administration is greenlighting uranium enrichment in Iran and legitimizing 6,000 Iranian centrifuges, they're shutting down domestic production here in America."

Wenstrup called the closure decision "a dangerous threat to our national security."

In its announcement that it will shutter American Centrifuge, the DOE announced the enrichment technologies developed at Piketon may be transferred to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

As recently as 20 years ago, the United States produced nearly 50 percent of the global supply of enriched uranium. Today, however, U.S. production accounts for only about 10 percent of the global supply, with Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Holland producing the bulk of the world's enriched uranium.

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cuts in U.S. enrichment capability are "potentially causing" U.S. nuclear plants to become dependent on foreign fuel sources. U.S. enriched uranium also plays an important role in powering U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.

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To: george76

they desperate need u-238 for space travel missions like the Mars Curiosity rover ... we barely have any u-238 left ...


41 posted on 09/29/2015 4:10:24 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: george76

“.......enriched uranium also plays an important role in powering U.S. Navy submarines and aircraft carriers.”......

Therein lies the truth. Odumbo hates our military and its once great strength that has kept this nation safe. Shutting down the fuel to operate our ships and domestic power plants will make us HIGHLY vulnerable to those who would do us harm. I expect the next thing odumbo will do is to cut down the food rations our military operates on and likely adopt the moooooooooooooch’s school lunch program for the military. The bastard is truly INSANE! Words cannot describe the hate I have for that POS.


42 posted on 09/29/2015 4:11:09 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: george76

Maybe Putin will sell us some of his


43 posted on 09/29/2015 4:20:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

I guess we can buy our enriched uranium from North Korea and Iran..


44 posted on 09/29/2015 4:21:39 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Major Matt Mason

Yes, Wenstrup is my rep. He would jump off a bridge if Boehner told him too. I’ve told him several times in the past I want that POS Boehner gone.


45 posted on 09/29/2015 4:23:42 AM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: glorgau

No he’s out is less than a year and a half.

The election is now, just over one year away.


46 posted on 09/29/2015 4:25:40 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: george76

I don’t see a problem here....we can just buy uranium from the Iranians....

/ sarcasm


47 posted on 09/29/2015 4:28:57 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: george76

What do you uranium for, if, you have no nukes?


48 posted on 09/29/2015 5:37:56 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: george76

What else about the Iranain deal don’t we know about?


49 posted on 09/29/2015 5:41:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

> No he’s out is less than a year and a half.

It’s gonna feel like at _least_ two years ;-)


50 posted on 09/29/2015 5:42:22 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: george76

It started with Republicans not fighting voter fraud. Then fraud became stuffing ballot boxes with foreign votes. Now the country has been overthrown by it’s enemies from the inside.


51 posted on 09/29/2015 5:44:38 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves Islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
There are NO counter examples.
52 posted on 09/29/2015 6:54:12 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: central_va; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Worth asking again:

What else about the Iranain deal don’t we know about?

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

Obama beheading

53 posted on 09/29/2015 6:58:46 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If we develop our uranium, we might be better able to counteract the bombs he’s giving Iran. That must not be allowed.


54 posted on 09/29/2015 6:59:57 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: null and void

Awesome!!


55 posted on 09/29/2015 7:00:17 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: null and void

g) Should be taken as a warning of what happens when evil is embraced. It hijacks you (rhetorical you).


56 posted on 09/29/2015 7:06:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: MarMema; central_va

central_va nailed it, didn’t he?


57 posted on 09/29/2015 7:07:49 AM PDT by null and void (FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, Traditional values)
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To: george76

I can only pray that Donald Trump gets in and reverses this and countless other traitorous actions by the Obama administration. It is not that hard to reverse them but the right man has to get in the White House.


58 posted on 09/29/2015 7:16:49 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: null and void

Yes. It is a keeper for sure.


59 posted on 09/29/2015 7:16:50 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: george76
The 500 tonnes of yellow cake obtained from Iraq and stored at Savannah won't last that long.

0bama is trying his best to disarm the U.S. Normally, that would be called "treason."

5.56mm

60 posted on 09/29/2015 7:32:00 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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