Now Maybe I Can Get Some Fissionable Material!

Brad Plumer / New York Times:

U.S. Seeks to Give Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Start-Ups for Fuel  —  Companies say it's a better way to dispose of the Cold War-era material — and fix a shortage of nuclear fuel.  But the plan has also faced criticism.  —  The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan …
Rachel Frazin / Associated Press:   DOE eyes using plutonium in nuclear fuel

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:   Trump administration wants nuclear startups to use plutonium for their reactors

Ella Nilsen / KTVZ-TV:   The Trump administration is working on a deal to give weapons-grade plutonium to energy companies

Al Jazeera:   US picks potential partners for using Cold War-era plutonium as fuel

Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Energy Department takes steps toward allowing plutonium, historically used in weapons, in nuclear fuel

Jim Mishler / NewsMax.com:   Energy Dept Opens Surplus Plutonium to Industry

Business Wire:   Oklo Selected by U.S. Department of Energy for Advanced Negotiations Under Surplus Plutonium Utilization Program

"No uranium for Iran!!" but let's put plutonium in the hands of money-grubbing civilian energy executives. Nothing could go wrong there. After all, this isn't the future anymore; it's all happened.

A nuclear-powered merchant vessel, the NS Savannah, was built. Didn't work.

But Elon Musk's atom-driven Mars rockets will leave daily from Moon Rocket Airport. And electric & fossil fuel companies will gladly surrender profits as soon as that first A-rocket does lift off successfully.