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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 11 months ago
While devices with radioactive sources do go missing from time to time, I would caution against concluding that there is a lot of unsecured radioactive material out there. – David McIntyre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's not very likely that this plant will be damaged, in the very unlikely case that it is, the radioactive problem would mostly affect Ukrainians that live nearby. – Leon Cizelj	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils. – Darryl Granger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The military conflict is putting Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and other facilities with radioactive material in unprecedented danger, we must take urgent action to make sure that they can continue to operate safely and securely and reduce the risk of a nuclear accident that could have a severe health and environmental impact both in Ukraine and beyond. – Rafael Mariano Grossi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
All of the safety systems of the six reactors at the plant were not affected at all and there has been no release of radioactive material, however, as you can imagine, the operator and the regulator have been telling us that the situation naturally continues to be extremely tense and challenging. – Rafael Grossi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The former President's family relationships with a convicted drug trafficker made him radioactive from the The US point of view, and I think it seems fairly clear that it was quite a corrupt government. – The US	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Don't go in the forest if you're afraid of wolves, and these guys, they just weren't wolves, I mean they were radioactive wolves. – Bruce Marks	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This trip follows on the heels of additional intense pressure we have placed on Iran. In just the last week, we took action against nuclear scientists and agencies and other key personnel involved with the Iranian regime's past nuclear weapons entities, we are making them radioactive to the international community. – Sigal Mandelker	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
( Cohen) is radioactive. Anyone that had any contact with this man in the last 20 years should be very concerned about what secrets of theirs are within these documents. – Michael Avenatti	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The major source of radiation exposure is the radioactive material on the ground, the immediate effects can be lethal, you can develop acute radiation syndrome which you can die from in a few minutes or hours. There are also lots of delayed syndromes where you may not die until a few weeks and even long-term effects like cancer risks. – David Brenner	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There’s a reason they call it the nuclear option, and that is that there’s fallout—and this fallout will be dangerously and perhaps disastrously radioactive for the Senate in years to come. – Richard Blumenthal	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is plausible that certain (terrorist) organisations could attack transports of nuclear material or civilian installations and try to steal radioactive material, there is a black market where such material is available coming from central and eastern Europe. – Benjamin Hautecouverture	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's politically radioactive to support free trade right now. – Greg Valliere	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is shocking just how little radioactive material can do so much damage. – Kevin Kamps	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For us, it was natural to start to design also an arm, and then the plan is to build two arms and have them both on the robot to create a 'centaur' style of robot. And with the two arms the robot can be deployed to the real area where it needs to do any maintenance work or turn a valve in a rescue scenario or pick up a sample in a contaminated area or just clean up radioactive materials; there's a lot of potential future applications where manipulation is really important. – Claudio Semini	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can repaint, and pour concrete, to hide radioactive residue or simulate the tests with non-nuclear material. – Olli Heinonen	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We know that these radical Islamic groups like al Qaeda and ISIS would love to get their hands on radioactive materials to fashion some sort of bomb, we've had a number of scenarios since the collapse of the Soviet Union where there have been sales or purported sales. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 8 years ago
While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions( PMD) - the tools that go into building a bomb but don't emit radioactivity. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
As an Interests Section, we were kind of radioactive for Cubans, this is a signal to Cuba and all Cubans that even if we don't have a normal relationship, we have a formal relationship. – John Caulfield	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I use the word' radioactive' to give it an air of science fiction, it adds a surreal, ironic tone to the reality I am observing. – Maria Moldes	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Even if some of the radioactive materials 'leaked' or still 'leak' from the ship, this radioactivity will be diluted very quickly in the water reducing the concentration substantially, in addition, the radiation emitted by the radioactive materials on the ship will not travel very far as the water is an excellent shield. – Kai Vetter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Until it is capped, it is going to continue to spew radioactive instability and extremist ideology over the entire region, any strategy to stabilize the region thus needs to take into account the challenges in both Iraq and Syria. It is not sufficient to say that we'll figure them out later. – David Petraeus	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We aren't seeing a real change yet for movies by and for adult women, but we are seeing special movies that are making such an enormous impact that I think is going to be radioactive. – Cathy Schulman	Found on FOX News 9 years 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
11 months ago

While devices with radioactive sources do go missing from time to time, I would caution against concluding that there is a lot of unsecured radioactive material out there.

– David McIntyre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's not very likely that this plant will be damaged, in the very unlikely case that it is, the radioactive problem would mostly affect Ukrainians that live nearby.

– Leon Cizelj

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their radioactive decay dates when the rocks were buried in the cave when they fell in the entrance together with the fossils.

– Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The military conflict is putting Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and other facilities with radioactive material in unprecedented danger, we must take urgent action to make sure that they can continue to operate safely and securely and reduce the risk of a nuclear accident that could have a severe health and environmental impact both in Ukraine and beyond.

– Rafael Mariano Grossi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

All of the safety systems of the six reactors at the plant were not affected at all and there has been no release of radioactive material, however, as you can imagine, the operator and the regulator have been telling us that the situation naturally continues to be extremely tense and challenging.

– Rafael Grossi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The former President's family relationships with a convicted drug trafficker made him radioactive from the The US point of view, and I think it seems fairly clear that it was quite a corrupt government.

– The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Don't go in the forest if you're afraid of wolves, and these guys, they just weren't wolves, I mean they were radioactive wolves.

– Bruce Marks

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This trip follows on the heels of additional intense pressure we have placed on Iran. In just the last week, we took action against nuclear scientists and agencies and other key personnel involved with the Iranian regime's past nuclear weapons entities, we are making them radioactive to the international community.

– Sigal Mandelker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

( Cohen) is radioactive. Anyone that had any contact with this man in the last 20 years should be very concerned about what secrets of theirs are within these documents.

– Michael Avenatti

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The major source of radiation exposure is the radioactive material on the ground, the immediate effects can be lethal, you can develop acute radiation syndrome which you can die from in a few minutes or hours. There are also lots of delayed syndromes where you may not die until a few weeks and even long-term effects like cancer risks.

– David Brenner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There’s a reason they call it the nuclear option, and that is that there’s fallout—and this fallout will be dangerously and perhaps disastrously radioactive for the Senate in years to come.

– Richard Blumenthal

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It is plausible that certain (terrorist) organisations could attack transports of nuclear material or civilian installations and try to steal radioactive material, there is a black market where such material is available coming from central and eastern Europe.

– Benjamin Hautecouverture

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's politically radioactive to support free trade right now.

– Greg Valliere

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is shocking just how little radioactive material can do so much damage.

– Kevin Kamps

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For us, it was natural to start to design also an arm, and then the plan is to build two arms and have them both on the robot to create a 'centaur' style of robot. And with the two arms the robot can be deployed to the real area where it needs to do any maintenance work or turn a valve in a rescue scenario or pick up a sample in a contaminated area or just clean up radioactive materials; there's a lot of potential future applications where manipulation is really important.

– Claudio Semini

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can repaint, and pour concrete, to hide radioactive residue or simulate the tests with non-nuclear material.

– Olli Heinonen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We know that these radical Islamic groups like al Qaeda and ISIS would love to get their hands on radioactive materials to fashion some sort of bomb, we've had a number of scenarios since the collapse of the Soviet Union where there have been sales or purported sales.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While inspectors would likely be able to detect radioactive isotopes at a site after 24 days, that delay would enable Iran to escape detection of any illicit building and improving of possible military dimensions( PMD) - the tools that go into building a bomb but don't emit radioactivity.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As an Interests Section, we were kind of radioactive for Cubans, this is a signal to Cuba and all Cubans that even if we don't have a normal relationship, we have a formal relationship.

– John Caulfield

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I use the word' radioactive' to give it an air of science fiction, it adds a surreal, ironic tone to the reality I am observing.

– Maria Moldes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Even if some of the radioactive materials 'leaked' or still 'leak' from the ship, this radioactivity will be diluted very quickly in the water reducing the concentration substantially, in addition, the radiation emitted by the radioactive materials on the ship will not travel very far as the water is an excellent shield.

– Kai Vetter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Until it is capped, it is going to continue to spew radioactive instability and extremist ideology over the entire region, any strategy to stabilize the region thus needs to take into account the challenges in both Iraq and Syria. It is not sufficient to say that we'll figure them out later.

– David Petraeus

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We aren't seeing a real change yet for movies by and for adult women, but we are seeing special movies that are making such an enormous impact that I think is going to be radioactive.

– Cathy Schulman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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