The Nuclear Arms’ Non-proliferation Treaty has produced one useful side-effect: a programme called Megatons to Megawatts, where uranium from weapons from the former USSR is turned into electricity. Russia should get $8 billion from the sale of the uranium fuel, and some 10 per cent of the United States’ electricity is from Megatons to Megawatts. There’s more at this entry from May 2005, which I found via Benjamin Kalt’s Free World blog. It’s one way to reduce the love of oil that the US leads.
   Hopefully these nuclear weapons will be reduced to a point where we won’t need to hear the n word or, more accurately, the President’s intentional mispronunciation of it. Posted by Jack Yan, 06:30  permalink

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