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PamW

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9. Don't doubt it; believe it - it's TRUE

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 06:08 PM

Jun 2013

RobertEarl,

The "Megatons to Megawatts" program is run by the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC).
Here is a link to one of their web pages on the program:

http://www.usec.com/russian-contracts/megatons-megawatts

which states

In years past, up to 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States has been generated by fuel fabricated using LEU from the Megatons to Megawatts program

In years past, 10% of the electricity produced in the USA came from nuclear power fueled by Russian nukes.

Since the total capacity of the entire US nuclear power reactor fleet is about 20% of the electricity of the USA.

Therefore, that 10% of the 20% represents HALF the fuel used by US power reactors.

Why would you doubt it? Is that just vacuous skepticism, or was there a "thought" process involved?

PamW

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Memo to Fox News: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy Are Not The Same [View all] wtmusic Jun 2013 OP

Fully half from russian nukes? RobertEarl Jun 2013 #1

Don't doubt it; believe it - it's TRUE PamW Jun 2013 #9

Hi Pam RobertEarl Jun 2013 #10

Not half of total PamW Jun 2013 #11

So you proved wt was wrong RobertEarl Jun 2013 #16

Not odd at all - different parts of the government PamW Jun 2013 #18

How much $$ do they need? RobertEarl Jun 2013 #19

Answers to questions PamW Jun 2013 #20

What about Columbia Generating Station? That's the operational nuclear plant on the Hanford site. suffragette Jun 2013 #21

What is "Hanford" PamW Jun 2013 #22

The State of Washington disagrees with you suffragette Jun 2013 #23

Reading Comprehension Problem??? PamW Jun 2013 #25

Compared to Pandora's Promise, the Breakthrough Institute and the nuclear industry writ large... kristopher Jun 2013 #2

This is what the corporate media uniformly do cprise Jun 2013 #3

We've shot ourselves in the foot on Iran. wtmusic Jun 2013 #4

There is no inspection regime that is good enough cprise Jun 2013 #5

I guess that's my point wtmusic Jun 2013 #6

This is a nuclear problem cprise Jun 2013 #7

You do know that it's impossible to build a weapon with reactor grade fuel, don't you? wtmusic Jun 2013 #14

"We need...a roadmap for guarding against weapons proliferation" kristopher Jun 2013 #8

100% WRONG as ALWAYS PamW Jun 2013 #12

What a fucking flake. kristopher Jun 2013 #15

Nothing of substance, I note PamW Jun 2013 #17

Ha! oldhippie Jun 2013 #24

They argeed. PamW Jun 2013 #13