The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    441·
    10 hours ago

    On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.

    42,000 pounds of weapons grade plutonium…

    Fat man was around 15lbs…

    So this would be enough to make ~2,800 nuclear bombs of similar strength to put into context how much this is.

    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Ah. Well. Now I know how they’re funding themselves.

      They’re illegally selling weapons grade plutonium to sanctioned countries, PMCs, rebel groups, and if I had to guess other companies in general to start the next step of a cyber punk dystopia: armed corporate conflict.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        8 hours ago

        The whole thing is insane…

        Like, “we” don’t even let some countries have nuclear reactors, because it can (over decades) result in a couple ounces of this shit.

        And we’re giving double digit metric tons to some crazy chatbot brain rotted billionaire.

        The amount of fucked this is can not be understated. This is something worse than we’ve started 20 year wars over