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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)
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Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Havent they been in the middle of doing this for like 20 years?

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They finished the sell-down years ago to a much reduced capacity but now they're outright selling off the entire remaining stockpile and all the infrastructure