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
    46·
    16 days 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.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        16 days 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