Nuclear Energy: Not A Solution #1

As SCOTUS has dashed the imminent threat of Scot Fearsome's inevitable casino for now, my focus returned to energy issues that the President addressed in his speech last night.

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A number of regular readers have accepted the well funded Nuclear PR, so it seemed worthy to note

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U.S. Energy Department Cannot Account for Nuclear Materials at 15 Locations.

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A number of U.S. institutions with licenses to hold nuclear material reported to the Energy Department in 2004 that the amount of material they held was less than agency records indicated. But rather than investigating the discrepancies, Energy officials wrote off significant quantities of nuclear material from the department's inventory records.

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Auditors found that Energy could not accurately account for the quantities and locations of nuclear material at 15 out of 40, or 37 percent, of facilities reviewed. The materials written off included

20,580 grams of enriched uranium,

45 grams of plutonium,

5,001 kilograms of normal uranium and

189,139 kilograms of depleted uranium.

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It's curious that the US invaded a Sovereign Nation in 2003 based on false information of an imminent nuclear threat, forged Niger yellow cake documents and Condoleezza Rice's images of Mushroom Clouds, but in 2004, the US simply wrote off the above quantities of nuclear materials.