Posted on 04/17/2006 6:38:35 PM PDT by blam
Iran 'covers up nuclear plants'
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 18/04/2006)
Iran has expanded its underground nuclear facilities and covered them with a 25ft protective layer of earth and concrete, it has been claimed.
David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector who now works for the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, studied commercially available satellite images taken over a four-year period up to January this year.
His conclusion was that the images showed that the Iranians were developing nuclear facilities, built underground to protect them from possible air strikes. The newly discovered work "is indicative of a new underground facility or further expansion of the existing one", he said.
Mr Albright reported that the pictures showed considerable work on two huge fuel enrichment halls at Natanz, about 180 miles south of Teheran. Each structure is about 480ft by 510ft.
"Both cascade halls have been covered in dirt. Trucks and steamrollers are laying what appears to be a grey material, possibly cement, over the soil," the report states. Three more layers are then shown being placed over the first. Cascades, a series of centrifuges, are used to enrich uranium, which could be used in a nuclear bomb.
A report in the New Yorker magazine last week said American military planners were considering using small nuclear weapons in a possible pre-emptive attack on Teheran's nuclear facilities.
The pictures reportedly show new tunnels being dug to provide access both at Natanz and at the Isfahan plant, north of Teheran.
Iran says it is developing nuclear facilities for civilian power supply, but boasted last week of its ability to enrich uranium.
Here's a link to the google pics...
http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/04/new_satellite_i.html
Any warhead that get through that would be like being inside a pipebomb. Everything would be demolished, and then the roof would collapse, leaving a crater.
Have you ever had one of those days when evenyone is posting articles about the same thing and just wanta say NUKE'EM already! Let God sort'em out. I'd rather the long lines be at the entrance to hell.
Main entrance to Iran Nuclear site after American action.
Yup. After many years of resting, I agree, NUKE'EM!
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