That's Nesmith in the chef's hat
Well, how about planning to hand over weapons grade plutonium to private companies, because ……… I'm not sure, maybe he is a fan of the late Michael Nesmith?
Members of the Democratic Party are expressing doubt for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) alleged plan to give at least 20 metric tons of weapons-usable plutonium to the private sector for commercial energy use.
Why isn't EVERYONE freaking out over this?
This makes, "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly," seem like the height of wisdom.
Such a move would risk putting weapons in the wrong hands and harming the nation’s defense, Democratic Senator Ed Markey explained in a letter to President Trump last week, reiterating arguments he and Democratic congressmen Donald Beyer and John Garamendi made in a previous letter earlier this month.………
The lawmakers argue that the U.S. has avoided the commercial use of plutonium and challenged the proliferation of reprocessing technology for decades “to prevent nations with nuclear power plants from being able to extract plutonium from that fuel, which they—or terrorists into whose hands it could fall—could use to make nuclear weapons,” the letter from September 10 reads.
“Your plan—which would provide U.S. companies with plutonium from U.S. military stocks and subsidize them both to reprocess plutonium domestically and export reprocessing technology—would reverse our successful nonproliferation policy,” the lawmakers continued. “The United States cannot effectively discourage other countries from using plutonium for civil purposes if we use it ourselves.”
The letters come in the wake of an article by Reuters reporting that the Trump administration is planning to give plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to power companies as a potential reactor fuel.
Just incase you are wondering, there is a corrupt payoff intertwined with this proposal:
In May, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, to form a program to process surplus plutonium and make it available for reactor fuel and stop the surplus plutonium disposition program as allowed by the law, according to the fact sheet. The order contextualizes the move to “jumpstart America’s nuclear energy industrial base” within a global artificial intelligence race, among other things.
Senator Markey’s September 23 letter also calls out an apparent conflict of interest within the entire dynamic; Secretary Wright was formerly on the board of Oklo, a nuclear technology start-up and “the main company interested” in getting plutonium from the DOE.
“I am concerned that your Administration is moving forward with plans to transfer plutonium to Oklo and allow it to build a reprocessing plant not because these proposals make sense for the United States,” the senator writes, “but because Oklo stands to benefit financially and Secretary Wright is acting in his former company’s interest.”
Well, I'm going to be sleeping soundly tonight knowing that we are going to be giving bomb grade plutonium, sourced from retired nuclear weapons' pits, to another corrupt Trump crony.
BTW, did you know that this plutonium is not surplus? The DoE is actually running short of plutonium as they refresh our nuclear arsenal.
Sweet dreams everyone.
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