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UPDATE: I got tricked. I hate April Fools day when legitimate news sources pull this shit.

TechCrunch is reporting in an exclusive that Google has acquired a company that develops technology for enriching uranium. I’m hoping this was an early april fools joke, but all the research seems to be there…

Enriched uranium is a necessary ingredient in the creation of nuclear energy, and one source we’ve spoken with at Google says that this is part of the Google Green Initiative. The company will use the new technology to enable it to design and possibly build small, mobile and highly efficient nuclear power generators. “Google has already begun building an enrichment plant,” says a high ranking IAEA source.

The TechCrunch piece goes into the nuclear bomb aspects of owning nuclear power plants, and speculates it’s a measure to protect itself from China.

Google, which has been shaken by its inability to counter Chinese censorship and hacking efforts, may be engaging in enrichment research as part of a new effort to simply protect itself from outside threats.

One source pointed out that if Google were its own country, its revenues would place it at 74th on the list of countries sorted by gross domestic product. “The U.S. government clearly won’t protect Google from China, so Google is taking the logical step of protecting itself with a physical deterrent.”

This is NOT funny or fun or good in any way. Let’s look at it this way, the UN (led by the US) has been hell bent on stopping Iran (a country) from enriching uranium. However it will most likely turn a blind eye to Google (a giant company) buying another company that enriches uranium. Seriously?

::strongly considers switching to self hosted webmail exclusively.::

Tags: bad news, google, nuclear bomb