re: #150 Spare O’Lake

Currently, a good portion of the nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants, and the isotopes used for all manner of nuclear medicine and other research and civilian applications is the result of taking weapons grade materials (primarily from Russian decommissioned weapons) and mixing it down to civilian grade. It’s far cheaper to do it in that fashion, than to enrich from naturally occurring levels to the grade necessary for nuclear reactors.

As we go through the decommissioned weapons, we’re running out of the weapons grade uranium, and the demand for uranium is set to increase as a result of nuclear reactor building programs around the world, particularly in China.