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Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End
gbrumfiel writes "For the past two decades, about 10 percent of all the electricity consumed in the United States has come from Russian nuclear warheads. Under a program called Megatons to Megawatts, Russian highly-enriched uranium was pulled from old bombs and made into fuel for nuclear reactors. NPR News reports that the program concludes today when the last shipment arrives at a U.S. storage facility. In all nearly 500 tons of uranium was recycled, enough for roughly 20,000 warheads."
We didn't install the cameras we just accessed the ones you already had set up.
Oops, just notice I forgot the antineutrinos.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
the us spent almost fifty years worried by the prospect of russian nukes lighting up their cities