cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/42979882

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

In an email sent to WKMS, General Matter said that the company intends to make a “historic investment in American nuclear infrastructure” by restoring a shuttered facility in Paducah. The gaseous diffusion plant in McCracken County, which ceased operations in 2013, was built by the U.S. government in the 1950s to bolster national defense efforts – and later to generate fuel for nuclear power plants.

Oh wow, good to see California and Kentucky working so closely together these days on so many important things.

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It just goes to show that no matter who you are, Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, we can all come together as recipients of Thiel money Americans.

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    He could have done anything with that money and he goes in on refined uranium. Not helping the homeless or writing off medical debt or even investing in thorium reactor development. Fucking uranium.

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    So the Rich want privately owned nuclear weapons to protect themselves from us.

    Combined with SpaceX, the rich could privately build ICBMs and launch them against us all.

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      Enriched uranium is nowhere near a nuke and it’s still a US owned facility. I wanna say you’re reaching but with their administration that’s probably gonna be the same as privately-owned