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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
The main danger here is damage to the systems needed to keep the fuel in the reactor cool -- external power lines, emergency diesel generators, equipment to dissipate heat from the reactor core, in a war, repairing this equipment or implementing countermeasures could be impossible. In the worst case, the fuel could melt and spread large amounts of radioactivity into the environment. – James Acton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The connection of the cooling loop helps explain other activities seen at the 50MW( e) reactor in recent years, connecting the secondary cooling loop suggests, in hindsight, that the demolition of the apparent spent-fuel building was an early sign that North Korea intends to complete construction of the reactor. – Jeffrey Lewis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At Chernobyl… the last reactor was shut down in the year 2000. So the spent fuel that's on site there has had 20 plus years to cool, i can point to a statement from the IAEA related to this just earlier today. They said that heat load of spent fuel storage pool and the volume of cooling water at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is sufficient for effective heat removal without the need for electrical supply. – John Kotek	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Under normal circumstances, the likelihood of a reactor losing power and of the emergency diesel generators being damaged and of not being repaired adequately quickly is very, very small, but in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime. – James Acton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The real concern is not a catastrophic explosion as happened at Chernobyl but damage to the cooling system which is required even when the reactor is shut down, it was this type of damage that led to the Fukushima accident. – David Fletcher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime. many of us did not expect a respected country’s military would take such an outrageous step. – Mitsuru Fukuda	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Russianleader claimed the nuclear-powered cruise missilehad an unlimited range, flew at a high speed and was capable of maneuverability that would allowit topierce any missile defense. One of the worlds most respected missile experts, Director of East Asia Nonproliferation Program Jeffrey Lewis, said Tuesday the U.S. tried to develop a similarly powered cruise missile in the 1950s and 60s but abandoned the project because it didnt make sense to put a nuclear reactor inside a missile. It was a technological nightmare and an ecological hazard, Jeffrey Lewis told Fox News. This is not a technology that I think makes a lot of sense for the United States. For whatever reason, the Russians have a different sense, maybe because they treat environmentalists differently than we do in the United States. – Jeffrey Lewis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Looking forward to the next generation of nuclear power, there are nearly 50 innovative US companies that are actively working on new advanced reactor designs and we are excited about the potential that they bring to produce more energy with less waste. – Dan Brouillette	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Nuclear reactor on the vessel is completely isolated, all the necessary measures were taken by the crew to protect the reactor which is in complete working order. – Sergei Shoigu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
From (July 7) onward with the Arak reactor, if you don't operate (according to) the programme and time frame of all the commitments you've given us, we will return the Arak reactor to its previous condition, meaning, the condition that you say is dangerous and can produce plutonium. – Hassan Rouhani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This rig can't be torn out of moorings, even with a 9-point tsunami, and we've even considered that if it does go inland, there is a backup system that can keep the reactor cooling for 24 hours without an electricity supply. – Dmitry Alekseenko	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Is it a final device? No. Is it a device that can solve the problem with Mars? No. But it is a device that can do something that is very hard, we are doing some crazy things with this reactor. – Konstantinos Giapis	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It has to be affordable for consumers. All developers of new nuclear plants know they must come in at a price well below that of Hinkley Point C, once the reactor design has approval, post GDA, we will have a clearer steer on the total cost of the project. – Robert Davies	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Once the reactor design has approval, post GDA, we will have a clearer steer on the total cost of the project. – Robert Davies	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Initial measures have been started for the design of modern 20 percent fuel and we're on the verge of (achieving) it. This product is different from the previous 20 percent fuel, and we can supply fuel to any reactor that is built like the Tehran reactor, the Tehran reactor has so far been working with old fuel, but modern fuel can improve efficiency. – Ali Akbar Salehi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Going forward, Chinese-made reactor technology will be exported and that will accelerate growth in emerging markets. – Guy Keller	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The real problem is does this stop these countries and the companies from their work to render the Arak and Fordow facilities safer? if it causes them to stop that work and gives Iran an excuse to restart Fordow or to rebuild Arak as a plutonium-production reactor, then we will have done real damage to our nonproliferation objectives. – Richard Nephew	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Anaerobic digestion is something we use frequently on earth for treating waste, what was novel about our work was taking the nutrients out of that stream and intentionally putting them into a microbial reactor to grow food. – Professor House	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If we find where to sell it, together with the Russian party, and recoup the funds we would pay, that would be the best solution, every other option is way more complicated... To decide now to build a Russian reactor when Russia is under sanctions. You can imagine what access every engineer or mechanic who comes here would have and what additional problems Bulgaria would face. – Prime Minister Boiko Borisov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Every other option is way more complicated... To decide now to build a Russian reactor when Russia is under sanctions. You can imagine what access every engineer or mechanic who comes here would have and what additional problems Bulgaria would face. – Prime Minister Boiko Borisov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This was a deliberate act to take down the nuclear reactor, and a very good way to do it. – Sebastien Berg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months. – James Clapper	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor, we further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months. – James Clapper	Found on Reuters 8 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
10 months ago

The main danger here is damage to the systems needed to keep the fuel in the reactor cool -- external power lines, emergency diesel generators, equipment to dissipate heat from the reactor core, in a war, repairing this equipment or implementing countermeasures could be impossible. In the worst case, the fuel could melt and spread large amounts of radioactivity into the environment.

– James Acton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The connection of the cooling loop helps explain other activities seen at the 50MW( e) reactor in recent years, connecting the secondary cooling loop suggests, in hindsight, that the demolition of the apparent spent-fuel building was an early sign that North Korea intends to complete construction of the reactor.

– Jeffrey Lewis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At Chernobyl… the last reactor was shut down in the year 2000. So the spent fuel that's on site there has had 20 plus years to cool, i can point to a statement from the IAEA related to this just earlier today. They said that heat load of spent fuel storage pool and the volume of cooling water at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is sufficient for effective heat removal without the need for electrical supply.

– John Kotek

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under normal circumstances, the likelihood of a reactor losing power and of the emergency diesel generators being damaged and of not being repaired adequately quickly is very, very small, but in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime.

– James Acton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The real concern is not a catastrophic explosion as happened at Chernobyl but damage to the cooling system which is required even when the reactor is shut down, it was this type of damage that led to the Fukushima accident.

– David Fletcher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But in a war, all of these different failures that would have to happen for a reactor to become damaged and meltdown — the likelihood of all of those happening becomes much more likely than it does in peacetime. many of us did not expect a respected country’s military would take such an outrageous step.

– Mitsuru Fukuda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Russianleader claimed the nuclear-powered cruise missilehad an unlimited range, flew at a high speed and was capable of maneuverability that would allowit topierce any missile defense. One of the worlds most respected missile experts, Director of East Asia Nonproliferation Program Jeffrey Lewis, said Tuesday the U.S. tried to develop a similarly powered cruise missile in the 1950s and 60s but abandoned the project because it didnt make sense to put a nuclear reactor inside a missile. It was a technological nightmare and an ecological hazard, Jeffrey Lewis told Fox News. This is not a technology that I think makes a lot of sense for the United States. For whatever reason, the Russians have a different sense, maybe because they treat environmentalists differently than we do in the United States.

– Jeffrey Lewis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Looking forward to the next generation of nuclear power, there are nearly 50 innovative US companies that are actively working on new advanced reactor designs and we are excited about the potential that they bring to produce more energy with less waste.

– Dan Brouillette

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Nuclear reactor on the vessel is completely isolated, all the necessary measures were taken by the crew to protect the reactor which is in complete working order.

– Sergei Shoigu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

From (July 7) onward with the Arak reactor, if you don't operate (according to) the programme and time frame of all the commitments you've given us, we will return the Arak reactor to its previous condition, meaning, the condition that you say is dangerous and can produce plutonium.

– Hassan Rouhani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This rig can't be torn out of moorings, even with a 9-point tsunami, and we've even considered that if it does go inland, there is a backup system that can keep the reactor cooling for 24 hours without an electricity supply.

– Dmitry Alekseenko

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Is it a final device? No. Is it a device that can solve the problem with Mars? No. But it is a device that can do something that is very hard, we are doing some crazy things with this reactor.

– Konstantinos Giapis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It has to be affordable for consumers. All developers of new nuclear plants know they must come in at a price well below that of Hinkley Point C, once the reactor design has approval, post GDA, we will have a clearer steer on the total cost of the project.

– Robert Davies

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Once the reactor design has approval, post GDA, we will have a clearer steer on the total cost of the project.

– Robert Davies

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Initial measures have been started for the design of modern 20 percent fuel and we're on the verge of (achieving) it. This product is different from the previous 20 percent fuel, and we can supply fuel to any reactor that is built like the Tehran reactor, the Tehran reactor has so far been working with old fuel, but modern fuel can improve efficiency.

– Ali Akbar Salehi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Going forward, Chinese-made reactor technology will be exported and that will accelerate growth in emerging markets.

– Guy Keller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The real problem is does this stop these countries and the companies from their work to render the Arak and Fordow facilities safer? if it causes them to stop that work and gives Iran an excuse to restart Fordow or to rebuild Arak as a plutonium-production reactor, then we will have done real damage to our nonproliferation objectives.

– Richard Nephew

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Anaerobic digestion is something we use frequently on earth for treating waste, what was novel about our work was taking the nutrients out of that stream and intentionally putting them into a microbial reactor to grow food.

– Professor House

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If we find where to sell it, together with the Russian party, and recoup the funds we would pay, that would be the best solution, every other option is way more complicated... To decide now to build a Russian reactor when Russia is under sanctions. You can imagine what access every engineer or mechanic who comes here would have and what additional problems Bulgaria would face.

– Prime Minister Boiko Borisov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Every other option is way more complicated... To decide now to build a Russian reactor when Russia is under sanctions. You can imagine what access every engineer or mechanic who comes here would have and what additional problems Bulgaria would face.

– Prime Minister Boiko Borisov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This was a deliberate act to take down the nuclear reactor, and a very good way to do it.

– Sebastien Berg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months.

– James Clapper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor, we further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months.

– James Clapper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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