enriched uranium is not a nuke by itself
Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Oh yes, lets give the billionaires access to nukes, that sounds safe, I’m sure we can trust them.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
Madison420@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The same admin that fired like half the nrc because they didn’t know what they did?
vane@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The technology behind 5% and 90% is the same.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They already have them:
trump, putin, xi, the unholy trinity axis of evil
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Netanyahu, although they refuse to acknowledge it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I asked ChatGPT and it said this was fine. I asked Grok and it said this was based and cool.