“Literally Nothing?”——naah——not quite buying that. That 300 feet of bedrock can be sealed forever just for starters. It’s not quite true that 100 watts of electricity would produce bomb quantities of enriched U235. One of the major demands of processing is the huge amount of electricity required. Another requirement is water. Another is heavy transport. Plutonium, if desired, needs a supply of spent fuel.
Without a turbine powered power grid Amanutjob can’t even make rocket fuel let alone enrich uranium/ extract plutonium. Without oil to sell he can’t even pay his rent never mind buying stuff from Russia/China/Pakis/ or Norks. Remember that 100 SLCM’s we used to shut down Kdaffy? Works every time we need to use them. One bunker buster sticking in the side of Bushehr and there goes his plutonium. You gotta be a little more optomistic-—there are plenty of ways to put Iran back in the 19th century and keep them there for quite awhile. The Iranians are the source or at least the agravation of every single ME problem and need to be re-trained soon.
Given about a year, a single centrifuge running night and day, starting with 19.75%, you would have enough fuel to light one off.
A fridge and a double car garage, that’s the footprint. You could scatter them all over Iran.
There are many factors that I haven’t mentioned that would hold them back regarding the weapons platform and the need for reflectors to increase the yield.
As I’ve said before, getting the fuel is the easy part.
Iran is not working on a plutonium based bomb that takes a large industrial effort because a new man-made element is being created.
Their nuke program is based on natural ore-based uranium. Once you get the molybdenum out it’s just a concentrating process.
Bushehr is uranium based also. Enriching is going on at Fordow and Natanz.