Lockheed Martin bets big on...nuclear fusion?

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17. NOPE!!

It wasn't for bombs.

First; you don't get U-235 from a reactor. U-235 is a fuel for a reactor; not a product.

You get U-235 from enrichment plants. The USA eventually built 3 enrichment plants to get U-235; K-25 plant at Oak Ridge, and the the Paducah, KY, and Portsmouth Ohio plants.

Presently, the Portsmouth Ohio plant is the only one operating to provide fuel for commercial power plants.

The nuclear weapons industry stockpiled all the highly enriched uranium that they could ever use; long ago.

ALL the Pu-239 that is in US nuclear weapons came from the production reactors at Hanford, WA and Savannah River, SC. NONE of it came from commercial power plants, or experiments at Oak Ridge.

DOE has all the national labs; but they are in two groups. Most of the national labs are operated under the DOE Office of Science.

There are only 3 national labs that are part of the nuclear weapons program; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia. They are operated by NNSA - the National Nuclear Security Agency which is part of DOE.

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