U.S. holding 324 metric tons of bomb-grade uranium. Report says

[ensho]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-uranium-20100914,0,7187215.story


The Obama administration, which is urging other nations to reduce their stores of the material, should declare part of the U.S. inventory surplus, a watchdog group says.

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The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, defended the rate at which it is blending the uranium into commercial fuel, noting the difficulty and cost of the process. It did not comment on the size of the surplus, which is classified.

(changed and blended into what? fuel)

The NNSA also said that it was not sending out a contradictory message by maintaining the surplus. It said that its facilities are secure from terrorists and that the agency provides technical assistance to other nations when they give up their bomb materials.

(hope that's not a brag 'facilities are secure from terrorists')

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[ck4829]

1. OMG, we might be trying to make WMDs. We need to invade ourselves NOW!!!111!!!

[leveymg]

2. If the size of the surplus is "classified", where did the figure "324 metric tons" come from?

Talk about a "contradictory message" . . . of course it's all safe from terrorists and accidents. "Nobody could have foreseen someone using four airliners as cruise missiles"

[FBaggins]

4. I think that the classified number...

is how much of the supply is needed for nuclear weapons.

[leveymg]

6. Wouldn't want them to guess how many warheads we have, would we?

What are we, the North Koreans, now? Did they classify the START documents, too?

[HopeHoops]

3. Hell, what is Burger King supposed to serve for lunch next week?

That's just SO unfair.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. All this talk of terrorists!

You'd think that Bush and Cheney were advising the anti-nukes ... AND the stand-up comics.

--d!