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Downblending U-233 with U-238 is Clean-Energy Vandalism

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Uranium-233 is being downblended with Uranium-238.

Because an exchange between U.S. Senator Tuberville (Alabama) and U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding U-233 took place, I then had some 2021 video material to work with.

The ORNL footage is from Periodic Table of Videos. It is a great video, but doesn't get in to the destruction (downblending) of U-233 as perhaps being a bad thing.

Thorium is barely mentioned in my video... I don't want to make a longer video clarifying (verbally) to the audience that Thorium-229 is rare, and this isn't the abundant Thorium-232 material they usually hear about.

The odds Jennifer Granholm will see this are slim, but I edited it with her as the intended audience.

Please feel free to retweet this if you're on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/gordonmcdowell/status/1414386558275264512

Attached are the framegrabs for video thumbnails.  If anyone can help propagate this thing, the 4K MP4 can be downloaded here.