Oak Ridge NucLear Laboratory
Hey Bros, you wanna know some bullshit? Here’s some damn bullshit. The United States, the richest, most powerful empire since the damn Mongols, doesn’t make its own plutonium-238.
Plutonium-238, which is different from weapons grade plutonium, is primarily used to power spacecrafts.
Well, you know who’s got the best fucking spacecrafts in the world? America. But we don’t power them (which I guess is kind of a metaphor for everything, now that I think about it).
We buy our plutonium-238 from Russia. Fucking Russia. Those guys. This guy.
The world is not enough
Should we be buying our plutonium from that guy? Who knows when he’ll renege on a deal so he can contaminate the Bosphorus forever. And on top of that, we won’t be able to go to Saturn.
Bullshit.
But that stops today, because today the Oak Ridge Nuclear Laboratory, in the United Fucking States, made some fucking plutonium-238. The first time we’ve done that since 1988.
Fifty grams of it to be precise, which I bet would get you hiiiigh.
Then we’re going to the Oort Cloud.
“Once we automate and scale up the process, the nation will have a long-range capability to produce radioisotope power systems such as those used by NASA for deep space exploration,” said Bob Wham, who leads the project for the lab’s Nuclear Security and Isotope Technology Division.
Eat a dick, Oort Cloud, we coming for you.
[Via ORNL]
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