The U.S. government is shelling out a whopping $2.7 billion to three companies in an effort to strengthen domestic uranium enrichment, amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers.

The Department of Energy announced on Monday that it will award $900 million each to American Centrifuge Operating and Orano Federal Services, as well as General Matter, a nuclear startup backed by billionaire investor Peter Thiel.

The funding will be distributed through task orders over the next 10 years, under what the department described as a “strict milestone approach.”

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    3 days ago

    100% agreed. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries and the DNC leadership are corporate and AIPAC whores.

    Only the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a couple of independents are actually on the side of the American public.

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        You’re sadly right, AOC showed her true colors when she voted to rearm Israel’s Iron Dome. Bernie has also expressed support for defending Israel.

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          Bernie really isn’t a Democrat, he’s an independent that runs under the Dem ticket for presidential elections.

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            People forget that, and it’s the very reason the Dems would NEVER nominate him for president.

            He’s not a Dem, he doesn’t raise money for Dems, and he criticizes the Dems as much as Republicans. We may not see much difference between them, but I assure you, the DNC views Bernie as just as much an outsider as any MAGA candidate.

            The nomination for the presidency is the highest honor a party can offer a member, and they aren’t going to give it to an outsider who is trying to hijack their party system for his own advancement, any more than they’d give it to a MAGA.

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          AOC showed her true colors when she voted to rearm Israel’s Iron Dome.

          AOC is still a politician, and the Jewish vote in her district is extremely important to her staying in Congress, and eventually getting Schmuck Schumer’s senate seat, which is soon, I hope.

          Those weren’t her “true colors” those were her political colors. If we want her to continue all the other good work she does, then we have to acknowledge the poltical realities that she has to navigate to keep her job.

          We know AOC, we KNOW she doesn’t approve of the Gaza Genocide, so we have to trust her. Trust is something that I almost NEVER extend to any politician, but her and Bernie are about my only exceptions.