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On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
42,000 pounds of weapons grade plutonium...
Fat man was around 15lbs...
So this would be enough to make ~2,800 nuclear bombs of similar strength to put into context how much this is.
Ah. Well. Now I know how they're funding themselves.
They're illegally selling weapons grade plutonium to sanctioned countries, PMCs, rebel groups, and if I had to guess other companies in general to start the next step of a cyber punk dystopia: armed corporate conflict.
you can't build Skynet without a nuclear arsenal, after all
The whole thing is insane...
Like, "we" don't even let some countries have nuclear reactors, because it can (over decades) result in a couple ounces of this shit.
And we're giving double digit metric tons to some crazy chatbot brain rotted billionaire.
The amount of fucked this is can not be understated. This is something worse than we've started 20 year wars over
We started the forever war with Iraq because of claims they were making this stuff, unequivocally proven false. Now we’re just giving it away to one of the most sociopathic psychopaths on the planet. This won’t end well.
ChatGPT is going to nuke my house for repeatedly asking it if there's a seahorse emoji.
In all seriousness though, I assume it's for nuclear power to satisfy the exponentially growing need for electricity, but if we're going to be building reactors they should be powering the grid and reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, not privately owned reactors for corporations.
Oh we're all gonna die
True, but how and when and why matter.
Why is easy, they like killing people. That's literally why the Nazis did it.
When is a ????
How will largely be famine and disease, but large numbers from the blast and radiation itself.
And the title could not be further away from reality.
To save you a click: Sam Altman was in the board of directors of a startup, which is working with uranium. Sam Altman left that position weeks ago. Sam Altman is not getting his hands on plutonium, nor is OpenAI.
I also posted this here a few days ago and it got deleted. Hurrah if it remains, it's worth a post here!
Gaius Baltar needs WHAT?!
Article talks about energy but not why they're using weapons grade plutonium for that purpose. Anyone got an informed reason?
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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