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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 current conservative majority has generally been very skeptical of how much authority various agencies exercise, the one place where they have been less skeptical though, has been an agency’s authority, which is predicated on long settled and well developed technical and scientific expertise. – Supreme Court	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What a lot of school leaders have learned is don’t react quickly. You’ve got a lot of pressure to do something right away but it’s really better to be thoughtful, you should assume that you don’t have a good picture of what really happened and what didn’t. Be very skeptical about claims that this saves lives or people died because of that. In Tennessee no one will have a really accurate picture of what happened there for months. – Michael Dorn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I do think that the charges are much more serious against Trump related to the election, but falsifying business records can also be a crime. (I’m more skeptical about combining that in a state court with a federal campaign finance violation.). – Richard Hasen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm skeptical that either side is correct, i saw environmental groups saying wind definitely isn't the cause of this and then others are saying wind is definitely the cause of this. These things take a lot of time – they're going to do autopsies and necropsies to figure it out. – Brett Hartl	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The worst thing we can do is just throw money at Ukraine, i’m very skeptical about putting money into the hands of this government on civilian aid. – James Carafano	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
No. I can't think of a legitimate reason why they should have been -- could be taken out of government, away from the government if they are classified, i, frankly, am skeptical of the claim that [ Trump ] declassified everything. – William Barr	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They were really skeptical about seeing any sort of results, because they'd never seen any grass growing in the area for years. – Angelina Tarimo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
2020 was such a weird year, i'm always a little bit skeptical of just one year [ of data ]. But in this case, I really would need to see what happens in 2022 to try to suggest that that's any kind of a rebound or trend. – Beth Jarosz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We initially started the project( in 2016) because we heard from managers and executives that innovation was one of the biggest challenges with video interaction. And I'll admit, I was initially skeptical. – Melanie Brucks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When that went viral, my initial read was that The Rock probably had a replica skull. That said, The Rock is as plausible a buyer for the Stan fossil as any. He’s got the wealth to be able to make that purchase, at least it seems to from the outside looking in, and there’s a little bit of a track record from Hollywood celebrities expressing interest in fossil auctions. It’s the sort of thing where I was skeptical he had it but there was a possibility. – Michael Greshko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm a little bit skeptical of the electric vehicles that everyone's moving to as rapidly as they are, i'm very much concerned about the supply chain. I am very much concerned about being totally relying on China to supply the necessary resources we need to have that transition happen. – Joe Manchin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They were skeptical that a ‘sports person’ would be able to talk about other issues. – Meghan McCain	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I think everybody's bet is she would tend to be more skeptical of broad agency authority. – Jody Freeman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of the reasons we are skeptical that the Fed and other central banks will be able to deliver on the policy tightening now expected is the fact that growth is already slowing, an unusual circumstance at the beginning of any monetary policy tightening cycle, and especially one that is so ambitious. – Michael Wilson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you get people from this jury, on the prosecution side, who are skeptical that this is even a crime, then you're going to have a doubly difficult job of convincing them that race was the motivating factor for the death, they're going to be hostile to the case from the beginning. – Page Pate	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's a real open question about whether a year from now these are going to be the issues that turn people. I'm skeptical. – Jeffrey Henig	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When I first took him on I was a little skeptical, but once I saw him as a person, I knew this kid could do anything, i've always accepted him, but I was like' How am I going to do this ?' Once you see him out there it's different. – David Nichols	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Lindsay Wiley're basically trying to take an old statute and pour new life into it, i think often courts are skeptical when the government looks at this 50-year-old statute and finds the exact authority needed to address this sort of urgent crisis. – Josh Blackman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war. – Clark Hoyt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He spoke truth to power. … We will miss him, there’s very few people who hold his level of integrity. he earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war. – Clark Hoyt	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Whichever way congress would go in trying to amend Voting Rights Advancement Act and reestablish some form of preclearance, it's going to have a Supreme Court where at least some members are going to be extremely skeptical of congressional power in this area. – Rick Hasen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Jenna, maxwell suggested that Virginia meet [Epstein] to apply for the job. Virginia was skeptical, pointing out that she didn’t have the proper training. But Maxwell assured her that she could learn on the job, noting that it looked as if Virginia was serious about her vocation—based on all the sticky notes she could see poking out of the anatomy book in her hands. She gave Virginia her address and phone number. ‘Why don’t you come by after work?’ Maxwell left, with a cheery, almost motherly goodbye. – Ghislaine Maxwell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm not sure why Biden chose Sept. 11 to pull our troops out, that leaves our troops over there trying to do withdraw for an entire fighting season. ... What if we lose soldiers ? Will they say we ca n’t leave again ? I'm very skeptical that Biden will bring this one to the end. – Joe Kent	Found on FOX News 2 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 current conservative majority has generally been very skeptical of how much authority various agencies exercise, the one place where they have been less skeptical though, has been an agency’s authority, which is predicated on long settled and well developed technical and scientific expertise.

– Supreme Court

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What a lot of school leaders have learned is don’t react quickly. You’ve got a lot of pressure to do something right away but it’s really better to be thoughtful, you should assume that you don’t have a good picture of what really happened and what didn’t. Be very skeptical about claims that this saves lives or people died because of that. In Tennessee no one will have a really accurate picture of what happened there for months.

– Michael Dorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do think that the charges are much more serious against Trump related to the election, but falsifying business records can also be a crime. (I’m more skeptical about combining that in a state court with a federal campaign finance violation.).

– Richard Hasen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm skeptical that either side is correct, i saw environmental groups saying wind definitely isn't the cause of this and then others are saying wind is definitely the cause of this. These things take a lot of time – they're going to do autopsies and necropsies to figure it out.

– Brett Hartl

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The worst thing we can do is just throw money at Ukraine, i’m very skeptical about putting money into the hands of this government on civilian aid.

– James Carafano

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No. I can't think of a legitimate reason why they should have been -- could be taken out of government, away from the government if they are classified, i, frankly, am skeptical of the claim that [ Trump ] declassified everything.

– William Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were really skeptical about seeing any sort of results, because they'd never seen any grass growing in the area for years.

– Angelina Tarimo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

2020 was such a weird year, i'm always a little bit skeptical of just one year [ of data ]. But in this case, I really would need to see what happens in 2022 to try to suggest that that's any kind of a rebound or trend.

– Beth Jarosz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We initially started the project( in 2016) because we heard from managers and executives that innovation was one of the biggest challenges with video interaction. And I'll admit, I was initially skeptical.

– Melanie Brucks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When that went viral, my initial read was that The Rock probably had a replica skull. That said, The Rock is as plausible a buyer for the Stan fossil as any. He’s got the wealth to be able to make that purchase, at least it seems to from the outside looking in, and there’s a little bit of a track record from Hollywood celebrities expressing interest in fossil auctions. It’s the sort of thing where I was skeptical he had it but there was a possibility.

– Michael Greshko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm a little bit skeptical of the electric vehicles that everyone's moving to as rapidly as they are, i'm very much concerned about the supply chain. I am very much concerned about being totally relying on China to supply the necessary resources we need to have that transition happen.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They were skeptical that a ‘sports person’ would be able to talk about other issues.

– Meghan McCain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think everybody's bet is she would tend to be more skeptical of broad agency authority.

– Jody Freeman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the reasons we are skeptical that the Fed and other central banks will be able to deliver on the policy tightening now expected is the fact that growth is already slowing, an unusual circumstance at the beginning of any monetary policy tightening cycle, and especially one that is so ambitious.

– Michael Wilson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you get people from this jury, on the prosecution side, who are skeptical that this is even a crime, then you're going to have a doubly difficult job of convincing them that race was the motivating factor for the death, they're going to be hostile to the case from the beginning.

– Page Pate

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's a real open question about whether a year from now these are going to be the issues that turn people. I'm skeptical.

– Jeffrey Henig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I first took him on I was a little skeptical, but once I saw him as a person, I knew this kid could do anything, i've always accepted him, but I was like' How am I going to do this ?' Once you see him out there it's different.

– David Nichols

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Lindsay Wiley're basically trying to take an old statute and pour new life into it, i think often courts are skeptical when the government looks at this 50-year-old statute and finds the exact authority needed to address this sort of urgent crisis.

– Josh Blackman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

– Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He spoke truth to power. … We will miss him, there’s very few people who hold his level of integrity. he earned the trust and respect of those he was covering but never lost his ear for false notes, as shown by his contributions to Knight Ridder’s skeptical reporting on the run up to the Iraq war.

– Clark Hoyt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Whichever way congress would go in trying to amend Voting Rights Advancement Act and reestablish some form of preclearance, it's going to have a Supreme Court where at least some members are going to be extremely skeptical of congressional power in this area.

– Rick Hasen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Jenna, maxwell suggested that Virginia meet [Epstein] to apply for the job. Virginia was skeptical, pointing out that she didn’t have the proper training. But Maxwell assured her that she could learn on the job, noting that it looked as if Virginia was serious about her vocation—based on all the sticky notes she could see poking out of the anatomy book in her hands. She gave Virginia her address and phone number. ‘Why don’t you come by after work?’ Maxwell left, with a cheery, almost motherly goodbye.

– Ghislaine Maxwell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm not sure why Biden chose Sept. 11 to pull our troops out, that leaves our troops over there trying to do withdraw for an entire fighting season. ... What if we lose soldiers ? Will they say we ca n’t leave again ? I'm very skeptical that Biden will bring this one to the end.

– Joe Kent

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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