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To: IrishMike

Is this uranium-235 or 238? The 238 isotope is the one that’s great for making bombs....it is abundant and easily contrivertable into plutonium, which is excellent for weapons but has little energy use. Uranium-235 has to be enriched up to 90% or higher, and even that only yeilds a bomb with a 60 KT max...which is relatively low, and uranium weapons are very heavy in comparison to plutonium. Uranium mined in Iran is rich in molybdenum, which is very hard to separate from the uranium in centrifuges and reduces the quality or uranium produced....which is why it would be easier for Iran to buy uranium (from Russia) than to mine their own.


14 posted on 12/21/2007 9:56:28 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat

contrivertable

This should say convertible....
15 posted on 12/21/2007 9:58:47 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Christmas weekend, and you’re giving me homework !


20 posted on 12/21/2007 10:36:24 AM PST by IrishMike (Liberalism is Jihad from within)
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