Newman !
Posted on 11/30/2011 4:25:27 AM PST by jhpigott
The Times reported on Wednesday that the mysterious explosion that rocked the city of Isfahan two days ago struck the uranium conversion facility located just outside Iran's third-largest city. According to the British newspaper, satellite images clearly show billowing smoke and destruction, despite Iran's claim that no such blast had taken place.
The Times quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying there was "no doubt" that the blast struck the nuclear facilities at Isfahan and that it was "no accident."
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Is there a satellite photo of the Isfahan facility ‘after’?
All I can say is; Allah Akbar!
Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten about laser isotope separation, although I'd only heard of it in brief articles in the technology press maybe 20 years ago. I assume it's quite highly classified.
The Iranians are, as I recall, using many thousands of centrifuges. All pumping lots of very nasty UF6 through, 24/7. Lots of ways for an accident to happen.
That 12th Imam better scramble out of that well pretty soon, or there won’t be anything left in Iran to start Armageddon with.
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You’re actually quite right. Iran’s birth rate is plummeting well below replacement, and their influence as a regional power will seriously wane in less than 30 years. Pity.
I wouldn’t want to be the guys in charge of security and safety at that facility. I imagine they are getting the Darth Vader “you have failed me for the last time” speech.
I have a hunch it was MI-6 That would explain why the “students” sacked the British Embassy the next day. Doing a wee favor for Saudi Arabia or Israel?
I think we can all assume this is the work of Argentina, still upset over the Falklands.
How would anyone in Iran know this?
Correct. The Oak Ridge facility in the 40s was a multi cascade centrifuge plant. The amount of centrifuges that must operate in precise timing with thousands of other centrifuges in a cascade is impressive. Despite the primitive operation, it still took some skilled engineering..
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Correct. The Oak Ridge facility in the 40s was a multi cascade centrifuge plant. The amount of centrifuges that must operate in precise timing with thousands of other centrifuges in a cascade is impressive. Despite the primitive operation, it still took some skilled engineering..
Hostile Nuclear Facilities 0
Israel 2
I’m sure nothing commercial as it takes a little while to have a satellite re-tasked but I’m sure someone at the NSA already has them in house. I Think it took about what two weeks for the missile plant near Tehran to show up so we will be waiting patiently while they scramble.
In the Manhattan Project, they used gaseous diffusion, not centrifuges. They knew about the centrifugal process, but they couldn't get it to work. It was perfected later. Both gaseous diffusion and the centrifugal process operate on the uranium in UF6 form.
There needs to be more splosions there....
yea uhbummer must have been real wet down there...too bad it wasn’t far enough down to be hot..
It was those darn Iranian Amish folks. They’re eveywhere. Their beards make it easy for them to blend into the local folk, even among the women.
STUXNET LIVES! Hail to Dassom!
I wonder if the Iranians used the lowest bidder for this facility?
Now, in addition to Stuxnet virus there is a new one. I first saw it as DuDu, which I thought was funny as that is the Spanish word for Mierde. Then I saw another reference calling it something like DuGu, or similar, I don’t remember it exactly now. Any info on the new one??
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