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.
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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.
Somehow he must power his network state islands so he can leave us poors to die on the mainland.
I would treat the Billionaires like Iran…control their access to nukes.
Drop a bunker buster on it!!
Oh for fuck sake, what??
Thiel is all-in an AI. AI requires monstrous amounts of power. Nothing to see here.
I can’t stop these animals from pursuing AI, but I’m happy they’re going all out for nuclear power. Anything but fossil fuels is a win in my book.
Someone should kill that guy.
I fucking hate this guy, but I don’t want him to become a martyr. Somebody should dissolve his companies, take all his money and resources, and leave him penniless.
Martyr for what? You have to deeply stand for something very popular (amongst a group of people with beliefs) that is very unpopular with another group. Of all the people in the world, Peter is not running the risc of becoming a martyr - dead or alive.
I see this mistake as a comment more and more often. I’m not saying anything on him remaining alive or not; that’s a completely different set of questions.
I won’t be surprised when some of this uranium mysteriously goes missing and then no one is held accountable.
I smell a new RPG from Bethesda.
Billionaires with nukes, just what we need.
Maybe 45 minutes from there is a little reservoir based vacation area called ‘Kentucky dam village’ that was the location of a family reunion trip that is legendarily hellish in my family from 20 something years ago. Also the moment when my immediate family more or less cut off all contact with another part of the family.
Maybe you csn make amends over the next 10 years, then give the trip another go and all end up mutant zombies from the inevitable toxic waste spill.
Yes, I have seen the movie Silkwood.
Wtf I hate nuclear power now.
Because there’s one more enrichment facility, this time
ownedbacked by a shithead? Come onIt’s a pretty old meme
Because there’s zero chance a private company will not cut corners and poison the surrounding area for a few million years.
Are we still talking about nuclear?
I gotta get off of this planet.
Where’s my towel?
Hey hey monkey man, you keep that shit on Earth.
Eventually, the writer for every 80s movie villain is going to get pissed and sue these billionaires for ripping off all his idea.
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.
“I tried you warn you, but no, you took it as a challenge!”
