Monday, November 9, 2009

Soviet Nukes Power Your Fridge...

From today's Times...

Power for U.S. From Russia's Old Nuclear Weapons

But at times, recycled Soviet bomb cores have made up the majority of the American market for low-enriched uranium fuel. Today, former bomb material from Russia accounts for 45 percent of the fuel in American nuclear reactors, while another 5 percent comes from American bombs, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry trade association in Washington.

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