![]() ![]() (Read more from “Blame Hillary and Obama: Tons of Uranium Concentrate Missing From Libya” HERE)ĭelete Facebook, Delete Twitter, Follow Restoring Liberty and Joe Miller at gab HERE. about, according to a 2009 diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks. uranium rights to the Russians and claimed. American officials had worried Iran could try to purchase the uranium from Libya, something Qadhafi’s top civilian nuclear official tried to reassure the U.S. We covered it during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Donald Trump falsely accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of giving away U.S. in 2013 estimating some 6,400 barrels of it were stored at Sabha. While inspectors removed the last of the enriched uranium from Libya in 2009, the yellowcake remained behind, with the U.N. It made the Russian company Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the. Tuesday, “agency safeguards inspectors found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium in the form of uranium ore concentrate were not present as previously declared at a location in the state of Libya,” the IAEA said. In a statement, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said its director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, informed member states Wednesday about the missing uranium. H illary Clinton’s campaign released a new ad which includes a former nuclear missile launch officer saying he’s terrified by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. That makes finding the missing metal important for nonproliferation experts. However, each ton of natural uranium - if obtained by a group with the technological means and resources - can be refined to 5.6 kilograms of weapons-grade material over time, experts say. Natural uranium can’t immediately be used for energy production or bomb fuel, as the enrichment process typically requires the metal to be converted into a gas, then later spun in centrifuges to reach the levels needed. Establishing an international fuel bank that guaranteed secure access to nuclear fuel at reasonable prices would help limit the number of countries that pose proliferation risks.Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in war-torn Libya have gone missing, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday, raising safety and proliferation concerns. My legislation would increase funding for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative to convert research reactors around the world from highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium and to remove the highly enriched uranium from such facilities. In the Senate, I have introduced the Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act to accelerate and reinvigorate U.S. I will also work to implement near-term steps Secretaries Schultz, Kissinger, Perry and Senator Nunn, including: increasing nuclear warning time, and reducing the danger of accidental or unauthorized launch. I will seek to negotiate an accord that substantially and verifiably reduces the U.S. As President I will seek bipartisan support for a comprehensive nuclear weapons policy that takes into account the need to maintain a safe and reliable nuclear deterrent and the critical importance of restoring American leadership on nonproliferation.Īs President, I will seek ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 2009, the tenth year of its initial rejection by the Senate. The Bush administration has dangerously put the cart before the horse, planning to rush ahead with new nuclear weapons without any considered assessment of what we need these weapons for or what the impact of building them would be on our effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. I have opposed the Bush Administration's plans for the Reliable Replacement Warhead and I have also voted consistently to block funding for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, "bunker buster," warhead. ![]() I support the goal of every president from Truman to Clinton of ending nuclear weapons, and I support the effort that Sam Nunn, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger, and George Shultz are leading to restore American leadership in this area. Citizens for Global Solutions: When I am President, the United States will once again be a leader in reducing the roles and risks of nuclear weapons, and preventing them from falling into the wrong hands.
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