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commodity-economics

9 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 question, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

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  the cheapness did both jobs
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, energy

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• Did cheap Megatons-to-Megawatts Russian LEU actually cause USEC's 2014 bankruptcy, or was the American Centrifuge project's own cost overruns the driver — and what does a primary source say?
  capture promoted 2026-09-03 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, nuclear-power
• USEC's own 10-K attributes the American Centrifuge Plant's non-viability primarily to a global post-Fukushima LEU oversupply, not specifically to the Russian LEU USEC itself imported
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, nuclear-power
• USEC's own 2013 Form 10-K states its Chapter 11 filing was to restructure its balance sheet and refinance $530 million in maturing convertible notes — not a response to Russian LEU competition
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, bankruptcy
• USEC's own 10-K discloses a $1.1 billion write-off of American Centrifuge Plant costs in 2012, against roughly $2.5 billion spent cumulatively by the end of 2013
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, nuclear-power
• The cheap Russian LEU that USEC marketed under Megatons to Megawatts undercut its own American Centrifuge project and contributed to USEC's 2014 bankruptcy and rebrand as Centrus
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, nuclear-power
• Megatons to Megawatts converted 475.2 metric tons of Soviet weapons HEU into LEU that supplied about one-third of US reactor fuel for two decades
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, nuclear-power
• Did cheap Megatons-to-Megawatts Russian LEU actually cause USEC's 2014 bankruptcy, or was the American Centrifuge project's own cost overruns the driver — and what does a primary source say?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, commodity-economics, energy-policy, verification
• Megatons to Megawatts: the nonproliferation deal that quietly ran US reactors on Soviet warheads, then bankrupted its own administrator
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cold-war, commodity-economics, immigration-law