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Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah (www.wkms.org)
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A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

In an email sent to WKMS, General Matter said that the company intends to make a “historic investment in American nuclear infrastructure” by restoring a shuttered facility in Paducah. The gaseous diffusion plant in McCracken County, which ceased operations in 2013, was built by the U.S. government in the 1950s to bolster national defense efforts – and later to generate fuel for nuclear power plants.

Oh wow, good to see California and Kentucky working so closely together these days on so many important things.

Massie, Khanna hammer Republican leadership for thwarting Epstein transparency push

It just goes to show that no matter who you are, Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, we can all come together over as ~~recipients of Thiel money~~ Americans.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Eventually, the writer for every 80s movie villain is going to get pissed and sue these billionaires for ripping off all his idea.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ever read Clancy's The Sum of all Fears? Even having obfuscated some facts, building a nuke is simply impossible without every intelligence agency on Earth knowing about it.

Terrorists dropping a "fizzle" on the Super Bowl required many narrative acrobatics. 1,532 things had to go wrong for them to slip that through. And it still fizzled.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

"I tried you warn you, but no, you took it as a challenge!"