http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uranium/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:33:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418824/posts Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that Iran's recently diclosed second uranium enrichment plant is "immune" to conventional bombing. "The new site near Qom is meant for enrichment. What was revealed by the Iranians had been built over years and is located in bunkers that cannot be destroyed through a conventional attack," Barak told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee. Iran notified the UN nuclear watchdog in September that it was building a second enrichment plant near the central shrine city of Qom, after Washington accused it of covertly evading its notification responsibilities under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Confirmation... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418824/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:33:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418584/posts Intelligence reports are buzzing that the Islamic Republic of Iran has attempted to smuggle $450 million worth of uranium from Kazakhstan. The 1,350 tons of purified uranium would be enough for Iran to continue its nuclear program, which many believe is geared towards producing a nuclear weapon. The report was drawn up by a member nation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and provided to the AP on condition that the country not be identified because of the confidential nature of the information. World Threats http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418584/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:34:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418236/posts It's showtime, folks! Today's the deadline President Obama imposed on Iran's leaders to give up their nuclear ambitions and be nice. Not sure if the deadline expires at midnight in Tehran or on Washington time, but the mullahs and President Mahmoud "Mighty Mouse" Ahmadinejad aren't scrambling to give Obama a New Year's Eve smooch. Rather than cave in to our president's mighty rhetoric, the Tehran tyrants took a break from killing protesters in the streets to attempt to import more than 1,300 tons of make-a-nuke uranium ore from Kazakhstan. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418236/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:05:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417710/posts Iran is reported to be attempting to import 1350 tons of uranium from Kazakhstan in violation of United Nations sanctions. In what suggested a new act of defiance by the regime, a leaked intelligence report said Iran was preparing to take delivery of purified uranium ore from the former Soviet republic in a $501 million deal that could be completed within weeks. An official from the country that drew up the report, which was obtained by the Associated Press, said rogue employees in the Kazakh Government were likely to be behind the possible deal without the knowledge of their Government.... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417710/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:43:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416326/posts North Korea has built a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicized account by the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb program, Abdul Qadeer Khan. It is a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s. Dr Khan also said North Korea might have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with ''maybe 3000 or even more'' centrifuges, and that Pakistan helped the country with vital machinery, drawings and technical advice for at least six years. The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416326/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:40:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416233/posts Pakistani scientist depicts more advanced nuclear program in North Korea By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 28, 2009; A02 North Korea has constructed a plant to manufacture a gas needed for uranium enrichment, according to a previously unpublicized account by the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb program, a development that indicates Pyongyang opened a second way to build nuclear weapons as early as the 1990s. Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan also said that North Korea may have been enriching uranium on a small scale by 2002, with "maybe 3,000 or even more" centrifuges,... WP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416233/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415996/posts See link in post below Source cannot be posted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415996/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407777/posts Discovery of Iran's secret uranium enrichment facility near Qom several months ago is a "warning sign" for anyone who thinks that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is for civilian purposes, head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said Tuesday. Speaking at a conference on security challenges in the 21st century at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Yadlin said that Iran is extremely close to mastering the necessary nuclear technology and will wait on the threshold until it feels that the international community is too weak to stop them to move forward towards the bomb. Iran, he... The Jeusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407777/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:24:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397287/posts Terror State: A dithering world has for years underestimated the costs of appeasement toward Iran. Tehran's aggressive plans for 10 new nuclear plants show they want dominance, not just a bomb or two. To any informed observer, it's no surprise that Iran is now collecting its 10-to-1 winnings in the high-stakes game Tehran's Islamofascist government has been playing with the free world for years now. There's been a United Nations censure, demands to halt the building of the newly revealed enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom, and multiple rounds of economic sanctions. The U.S., Britain, France and Germany... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397287/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 01:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397002/posts Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Highlight Kazakhstan’s Uranium Potential One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street. As the Gordon Gecko sycophants regroup and look for the next Big Thing, maximizing profit while minimizing risk, the landscape looks very different than it did a year ago. In such a climate, it is uranium, not oil and natural gas that would seem to have the brightest future for one simple, overriding capitalist principle – supply and demand. Whatever agreements are reached at December’s global climate... Oilprice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397002/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392048/posts YERINGTON, Nev. (Nov. 21) -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset and pet llama, and see an ominous sign on a neighboring fence: "Danger: Uranium Mine." For almost a decade, people who make their homes in this rural community in the Mason Valley 65 miles southeast of Reno have blamed that enormous abandoned mine for the high levels of uranium in... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392048/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:30:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389208/posts Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the Islamic Republic is considering to exchange its enriched uranium with nuclear fuel inside the country. "Iran will not send its 3.5-percent-enriched uranium out of the country," ISNA quoted Mottaki as saying on Wednesday. "That means we are considering to exchange the enriched uranium inside Iran," he went on to explain. Under a mid-October proposal discussed in Vienna, Iran is asked to send most of its domestically produced low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad to be converted into more highly enriched fuel rods for the Tehran reactor, which produces medical isotopes. Press TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389208/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388043/posts Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place at the fortified facility ahead of its 2011 startup, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report Monday. The revelation of the existence of the underground plant known as Fordo, near the holy city of Qom, has heightened concerns of other possible undeclared Iranian facilities that are not subject to IAEA oversight and therefore could be used for military purposes. In Washington, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the IAEA report "underscores that Iran still refuses to comply fully... Associated Press Via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388043/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:43:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385385/posts How China gifted 50kg uranium for two bombs to Pakistan Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 13 November 2009, WASHINGTON: China’s dirty little secret of nuclear proliferation to Pakistan, including virtually giving Islamabad two nuclear weapons on a platter while the US remained oblivious and smug, has exploded in Washington. Embarrassingly for President Barack Obama, the disclosures come on the eve of his much-anticipated visit to Beijing. The broad story is known to every Tom, Dinesh, and Hamid in strategic circles — that sometime in the early 1980s, China provided Pakistan with nuclear know-how and materials to enable it to make the bomb,... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385385/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:44:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381150/posts A senior Iranian politician said Saturday the country would not ship low-enriched uranium out of the country, which is a major part of a pending nuclear deal between Iran and international powers, according to semiofficial state media. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chief of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said the proposed deal to send uranium out of the country is "called off," Iran's semiofficial news agency ISNA reported. Boroujerdi, an influential member of the parliament, said he does not see the uranium shipment happening. ""Iran is not to give any of its 1,200 kilograms fuel to the other party... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381150/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:39:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380848/posts TEHRAN, Iran – Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran won't ship its low enriched uranium abroad in a single batch or in several shipments, a compromise suggested by some government officials, under any circumstances. Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380848/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:47:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380706/posts Iran Refuses To Send Enriched Uranium Abroad by Jay Deshmukh TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran is refusing to send its low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing, the influential head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee was quoted as saying on Saturday. "We do not want to give part of our 1,200 kilos of enriched uranium in order to receive fuel of 20 percent enrichment," Alaeddin Borujerdi told the ISNA news agency. "This option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now. We are studying how to procure fuel and (Ali Asghar) Soltanieh is negotiating... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380706/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:36:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378902/posts Iran reports having thousands of centrifuges spinning away to make fuel for their upcoming power reactors. Others think that Iran has it in mind to make weapons material using those same centrifuges. In fact, Iran could divert just 1% of its centrifuge production and have enough weapons-grade material to make a few bombs per year. The arithmetic is provided here below. Note: I was with Westinghouse civilian nuclear power for 30 years as a registered professional engineer with nuclear specialization. I hold a doctorate in engineering. All information here is unclassified." Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/11/uranium_centrifuges_and_uraniu.php LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - Threat Matrix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378902/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:17:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377215/posts North Korea has completed reprocessing of some 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods at its Yongbyong nuclear facility and weaponized the plutonium extracted from the material, the country's official Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday. Kyodo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377215/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371916/posts TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - State television says Iran will agree to the “general framework” of a U.N.-drafted plan to ship enriched uranium out of the country for processing, but will seek “important changes” in the deal. The report Tuesday on the state-run channel Al-Alam does not specify the amendments Iran will seek. It says Iran will officially reply within 48 hours. The plan calls for Iran to ship 70 percent of its enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371916/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:09:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370333/posts Iran's nuclear programme Deadline missed Oct 24th 2009 From Economist.com Iran misses a deadline for responding to an offer for others to enrich its uranium IRAN has again failed to do deadlines. It has been evading them in the seven years since an opposition group first outed its extensive covert nuclear programme, despite five UN Security Council resolutions that have told it to halt its suspect nuclear work. After talks that ended in Vienna on October 21st, Iran and the three countries trying to strike a side-deal over new fuel for a Tehran-based nuclear reactor were told by Mohamed ElBaradei,... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370333/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:02:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367773/posts Iran, Russia and America met in Vienna under the supervision of the IAEA.The meeting is to discuss the shipment of nuclear fuel with about %20 of enrichment to Tehran's research reactor which produces radioactive medicine for hospitals.IRI's representative in the IAEA Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh is leading Iran's delegation. IAEA's director-general Mohammad Elbaradei is also attending the meeting.The Islamic Republic of Iran demands that up to %5 of enrichment for Tehran's research reactor to be done in Iran and then be sent to Russia, France or America for more enrichment. IRIB News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367773/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:41:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369546/posts WASHINGTON – The Obama administration expressed mild disappointment Friday that Iran withheld a decision on whether to accept a U.N.-coordinated plan that could ease fears about Iran's potential for making a nuclear weapon. The U.S., along with Russia and France, officially endorsed the plan Friday. The State Department said it was unhappy that Iran was not ready to embrace the plan, which calls for Iran to ship most of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment and eventual use as fuel for a research reactor in Tehran that makes medical isotopes and is under regular monitoring by a U.N.... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369546/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368475/posts Kingdom’s uranium prospects ‘promising’ By Taylor Luck AMMAN - After less than a year of exploration, the Jordanian-French Uranium Mining Company (JFUMC) is reporting promising results for the potential location of the Kingdom’s first uranium mine, company officials said on Tuesday. Over the last nine months, drilling and geological mapping carried out by the firm, a joint venture between French mining company AREVA and Jordan Energy Resources Inc., has revealed large amounts of high-grade uranium close to surface levels. Operating within a 1,469-square-kilometre concession area, the JFUMC has focused on a 100-square-kilometre fertile zone in Swaqa as well as the... Jordan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368475/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:15:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366420/posts "Iranian Supreme National Security Council Advisor: 'Circumstances May Arise Under Which Iran Will Require Uranium Enriched to 63%'" SNIPPET: "Talks began today, October 19, 2009, in Vienna between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency about the proposal made a few weeks ago by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in advance of the October 1, 2009 talks between Iran and the 5+1 in Geneva." MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch - No. 2605 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366420/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:42:56 GMT