Initiator for atomic bombs
Posted on 06/18/2006 7:08:27 PM PDT by jveritas
"Hidden Enrichment Technology
Since Operation Iraqi Freedom, two scientists from Iraq’s pre-1991 nuclear weapons program have emerged to provide ISG with uranium enrichment technology and components, which they kept hidden from inspectors. In August 2003, a former EMIS scientist told ISG during an interview that he had taken material and equipment that was related to EMIS and hid them in various places near his home in the 1990s. The scientist had not been specifically told to do this but believed his supervisors were cognizant of his actions. He chose items to hide that could be used in future reconstitution of the EMIS program. The scientist turned over to the Coalition a broad range of items that had been withheld from the UN inspectors, including technical reports on EMIS, a collection of foreign EMIS-related patents, a mass spectrometer, blocks of high-purity graphite, high-purity tantalum shielding sheets, and an indigenously designed collector piece from inside the EMIS machine.Some of these items are shown in Figure 34."
Neutron generators are a part of a nuke weapon. They greatly increase the yield.
I did not know this, thank you for the information.
It greatly increases the yield of a nuclear weapon.
And this is ALL that it is used for.
As well they shouldn't. "Jveritas" is correct that the more important tidbit in the article is the "tantalum coated graphite". Tantalum is a very difficult material to work with, yet highly corrosion resistant. Graphite, OTOH is relatively cheap, abundant, and easy to work with. Coating graphite with tantalum potentially offers a short-cut route to piping for handling corrosive gas.
The "neutron generator" is simply an isotopic neutron source that uses the high-energy alpha particles emitted by many isotopes (including naturally occuring ones) to slam into a beryllium "target". When such a high-energy collision occurs, you get (as I recall) the formation of Lithium nuclei, and the emission of a free neutron, which can then be used for many experimental purposes. Commerical sources of this type typically use either Americium or Plutonium (note--NOT the fissionable plutonium isotope), as they put out a higher alpha particle flux.
Does anyone know of any Iraqi scientists going to Iran after the invasion? Could they be now helping in Iran's nuclear developments?
You're going to want to see this Peach..
jveritas- the work you're doing is fantastic. Many, many thanks.
More great work....
The evidence continues to pile up and the Leftists continue to try to ignore it all!
On the Chemical Weapons issue, I think from my reading so far that the Iraqi had all the material available to produce them in a very short period of time. They had all the precursors necessary to build Sarin, Tabun, Hydrogen Cyanide, and even VX gas. I think that most of these precursors were buried in the Western desert and they are still there.
Thanks SE Mom :)
I think most of them stayed in Iraq or left for the West. Some even fled to the west when Saddam still in power. The Iranians have their own nuclear scientists, with some help from the Russians renegade nuclear scientists, North Koreans, and Pakistanis.
I do not know. It seems that you know more about this subject than I do. What do you think about the Graphite Coated with Tantalum?
Good night :)
Excellent work -- still.
How do you distribute your translations? Is there a web site? I've seen Powerline and other blogs linking to your posts here.
Keep up the good work -- Randy
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