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Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates. – Jeff Navin	Found on New York Times 10 months ago
Paul Sorvino was one of the greatest actors in cinematic history in Hollywood. It is unconscionable that he would be left out of the In Memoriam segment of the The Oscars, it’s a three-hour show, they ca n’t give a couple more minutes to get it right ? Paul Sorvino gave decades to this industry and was loved by all. Paul Sorvino was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable. – Dee Dee Sorvino	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated. – Charlton Heston	added by Normando 1 year ago
In school-based programs we focus a lot on healthy relationship skills, which are important, but also assume that teenagers are dating, this study affirms that it’s ok if you decide to date or decide not to date. Both are acceptable and healthy. – Brooke Douglas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
New technologies always come with new risks and we as a society will have to address them, such as implementing acceptable use policies and educating the general public about how to use them properly. Guidelines will be needed. – Bern Elliot	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This was not acceptable. I understand we’re in the middle of a pandemic. I understand we’re building the plane while it’s still in the air, but you can’t do this, it did shake my faith. It shook my faith in how these decisions were being made. – Paul Offit	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is a different level of consideration – not even just between men and women, but for Black women. As Black women, we have different considerations for our hair. What is acceptable for our hair? How are we presenting ourselves? – Summer Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Frankly they are inexcusable. Weather was only one of the many reasons initially. However, as the other carriers recovered relatively quickly, Southwest did not. Their lack of upgraded systems is not acceptable. – Sal Lagonia	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have been proven innocent for six years on everything — from fake impeachments to [ former special counsel Robert ] Mueller who found no collusion, and now I have to do it more ? it is not acceptable. It is so unfair. It is so political. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's not being woke to say no, that's not acceptable anymore, this is simply being sensible, courteous and empathetic. – Michael Coren	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I know that the gorilla in the room is launching missiles over Taiwan, if we just allow that to happen, and we don't contest that, that'll become the next norm. And that's that's not acceptable. – Karl Thomas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Council of Europe treaty, also known as a prisoner of transfer treaty, is not an acceptable remedy here for the family, that would involve Ridge coming home in custody, going to federal prison, waiting some period of months for the sentencing commission to act, and affix a charge and a sentence to the foreign offense, which would leave him a felon in his own country, for something that would never have been charged in this country and that's unacceptable. – Jonathan Franks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We will hold Joe Biden to this. Nothing short of a US investigation that leads to real accountability is acceptable, and we won't stop until no other American or Palestinian family endures the same pain we have. – Abu Akleh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Since when is it acceptable to teach 11-year-olds that they may want to start trying risky sexual behaviors (risky is their word, not mine) but they should not use the words male and female and opt instead for person with a penis and person with a vulva? these lessons coupled with the sinister manipulation of language will have grave consequences. It must be called out and rejected. – Erika Sanzi	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is not acceptable to create dangerous situations. It is not acceptable to intimidate officials. – Mark Rutte	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He’s got an interesting message that could resonate with voters, especially those looking for a fresh face, he could be an alternative to Trump, but also someone more acceptable to the majority Republicans because he isn’t seen as a Never Trumper. – Brendan Steinhauser	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it, the United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Despite a concerted effort on both sides, the current financing and retail environment created significant obstacles to reaching an acceptable and fully executable agreement. – Peter Boneparth	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is perfectly acceptable to call it out in real time, name the elephant in the room, it makes the hiring manager feel that if you make a mistake you are self-aware enough to catch yourself and big enough to admit that you've made a mistake and will fix it. Wouldn't you want to hire a person who will handle mistakes that way ? – Marianne Ruggiero	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I didn't accept that. I said, ‘That's not acceptable,’ so, I resumed CPR and I fought as hard as I could to prevent the loss. And sometime later, one of the responders took me away from Zach. – Chris Didier	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That was totally not acceptable, especially at this time of the year, listen, people are going to be watching this game tonight and probably think the series is over. But our group, we’re a very resilient group. – Steven Stamkos	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Biden Administration needs to wake up and learn that it is not acceptable to use children for an experimental woke agenda, by pushing to expand access to dangerous cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors without parental consent, Biden’s Executive Order threatens the physical and mental health – and futures – of our nation’s children. It’s also an unprecedented power grab, using the stroke of a pen to bully governors and parents who are simply trying to protect kids in their state. – Jessica Anderson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have instructed the deputies to attempt to manage whatever calls are acceptable over the phone. – Isabella County Sheriff Michael Main	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

– Jeff Navin

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

Paul Sorvino was one of the greatest actors in cinematic history in Hollywood. It is unconscionable that he would be left out of the In Memoriam segment of the The Oscars, it’s a three-hour show, they ca n’t give a couple more minutes to get it right ? Paul Sorvino gave decades to this industry and was loved by all. Paul Sorvino was not the only deserving soul left out, and a QR Code is not acceptable.

– Dee Dee Sorvino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

– Charlton Heston

added by Normando
1 year ago

In school-based programs we focus a lot on healthy relationship skills, which are important, but also assume that teenagers are dating, this study affirms that it’s ok if you decide to date or decide not to date. Both are acceptable and healthy.

– Brooke Douglas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

New technologies always come with new risks and we as a society will have to address them, such as implementing acceptable use policies and educating the general public about how to use them properly. Guidelines will be needed.

– Bern Elliot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our friends are playing politics with US intelligence. We sent a clear message to China that this is not acceptable. We protected civilians. We gained more intelligence while protecting our own sensitive information. And the bottom line here is shooting down the surveillance balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intelligence payload.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This was not acceptable. I understand we’re in the middle of a pandemic. I understand we’re building the plane while it’s still in the air, but you can’t do this, it did shake my faith. It shook my faith in how these decisions were being made.

– Paul Offit

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a different level of consideration – not even just between men and women, but for Black women. As Black women, we have different considerations for our hair. What is acceptable for our hair? How are we presenting ourselves?

– Summer Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Frankly they are inexcusable. Weather was only one of the many reasons initially. However, as the other carriers recovered relatively quickly, Southwest did not. Their lack of upgraded systems is not acceptable.

– Sal Lagonia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have been proven innocent for six years on everything — from fake impeachments to [ former special counsel Robert ] Mueller who found no collusion, and now I have to do it more ? it is not acceptable. It is so unfair. It is so political.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's not being woke to say no, that's not acceptable anymore, this is simply being sensible, courteous and empathetic.

– Michael Coren

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know that the gorilla in the room is launching missiles over Taiwan, if we just allow that to happen, and we don't contest that, that'll become the next norm. And that's that's not acceptable.

– Karl Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Council of Europe treaty, also known as a prisoner of transfer treaty, is not an acceptable remedy here for the family, that would involve Ridge coming home in custody, going to federal prison, waiting some period of months for the sentencing commission to act, and affix a charge and a sentence to the foreign offense, which would leave him a felon in his own country, for something that would never have been charged in this country and that's unacceptable.

– Jonathan Franks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will hold Joe Biden to this. Nothing short of a US investigation that leads to real accountability is acceptable, and we won't stop until no other American or Palestinian family endures the same pain we have.

– Abu Akleh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since when is it acceptable to teach 11-year-olds that they may want to start trying risky sexual behaviors (risky is their word, not mine) but they should not use the words male and female and opt instead for person with a penis and person with a vulva? these lessons coupled with the sinister manipulation of language will have grave consequences. It must be called out and rejected.

– Erika Sanzi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is not acceptable to create dangerous situations. It is not acceptable to intimidate officials.

– Mark Rutte

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He’s got an interesting message that could resonate with voters, especially those looking for a fresh face, he could be an alternative to Trump, but also someone more acceptable to the majority Republicans because he isn’t seen as a Never Trumper.

– Brendan Steinhauser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it, the United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Despite a concerted effort on both sides, the current financing and retail environment created significant obstacles to reaching an acceptable and fully executable agreement.

– Peter Boneparth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is perfectly acceptable to call it out in real time, name the elephant in the room, it makes the hiring manager feel that if you make a mistake you are self-aware enough to catch yourself and big enough to admit that you've made a mistake and will fix it. Wouldn't you want to hire a person who will handle mistakes that way ?

– Marianne Ruggiero

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn't accept that. I said, ‘That's not acceptable,’ so, I resumed CPR and I fought as hard as I could to prevent the loss. And sometime later, one of the responders took me away from Zach.

– Chris Didier

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That was totally not acceptable, especially at this time of the year, listen, people are going to be watching this game tonight and probably think the series is over. But our group, we’re a very resilient group.

– Steven Stamkos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Biden Administration needs to wake up and learn that it is not acceptable to use children for an experimental woke agenda, by pushing to expand access to dangerous cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors without parental consent, Biden’s Executive Order threatens the physical and mental health – and futures – of our nation’s children. It’s also an unprecedented power grab, using the stroke of a pen to bully governors and parents who are simply trying to protect kids in their state.

– Jessica Anderson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have instructed the deputies to attempt to manage whatever calls are acceptable over the phone.

– Isabella County Sheriff Michael Main

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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