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"We believe the future of fresh water is subsea. We can't solve every water problem this way, but for coastal ecosystems and islands with access to depth, the potential is enormous. There are 95 countries in the world with coastlines that have this depth and serious water scarcity."
Nuclear power companies and the U.S. government are approaching a cliff — a gradually emerging shortage of enriched uranium to fuel new reactors and the backbone of America’s military deterrence.
Two companies, BWX Technologies and Centrus Energy, with help from the Department of Energy, are racing to build factories and enrichment capabilities in an effort to stand up an industry that the United States abandoned at the end of the Cold War.
If it fails, according to DOE reports and interviews, developers of next-generation reactors that hope to deploy power plants this decade might not have what they need. And naval ships and warheads could see shortages of highly enriched uranium and tritium in the 2040s and 2050s.
The Droid TW 12.7 armed ground robot from DevDroid. Via DEVDROID
“A single remote-controlled Ukrainian ground combat vehicle defended a “key intersection under constant adversary attack” for 45 days last summer, according to a 3rd Army Corps spokesperson who called it “Ukraine’s first fully robotic defensive operation of a position.” It likely won’t be the last.
The robot—a Droid TW 12.7 armed with a machine gun—and its operator, some 10 kilometers away, “disrupted every attempted breakthrough and prevented enemy infiltration,” with no loss of Ukrainian life, the spokesperson said in a recent interview. ” (via DefenseOne)
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