James Hickman: Uranium hasn’t been this Critical Since the Days of Oppenheimer

Uranium hasn’t been this critical since the days of Oppenheimer If you saw Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, you might remember the scene in which Dr. Oppenheimer travels to Chicago to meet with physicist Enrico Fermi, who had just achieved the world’s first ever self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. This really happened– it was December 2, 1942, and Enrico Fermi’s experiment was a massive scientific breakthrough. Fermi and his team proved that a fission reaction could be controlled… and therefore the vast amount of energy inside of an atom’s nucleus could be harnessed for other purposes. Obviously, the US government was singularly…