Posted on 02/19/2023 1:39:47 PM PST by PghBaldy
Work-place accidents at the reactors should be happening shortly.
And I would say there is no real way to verify what level of uranium enrichment has been achieved. Inspectors can only see what they are allowed to see. And even then they can’t be trusted to report the truth.
We’ve been hearing Iran is weeks away from producing a bomb, for over 20 years now. Either they’re not as close as we’ve been told, or they already have the capability, and have for years now. I lean towards believing it’s the latter.
Just 84% enriched Uranium?
More like an 84% probability that Iran has had functional nuclear weapons since Obama was President!
"Kamala, did you hear what the Iranians plan to do to those Jews?"
"I sure did, and I can't wait to see it either!"
A dirty bomb will do.
A truth lost on most.... you don’t have to build “the bomb”, you just need “a bomb”.
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Whose Admin and who defended sending Cargo planes full of Cash in the Middle of the night to Iran.
Joe Biden. BHO & Joe the Ho
He defended them having Nuclear Processing Power and he said they were no threat.
India tested in 1974, IIRC, for “civilian” uses.
Apparently 90%.
I consider this info as disinformation. From what I have researched, the most difficult part of enriching uranium is the first part. once you get past 10-20% enrichment things get alot easier.
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“What is the minimum purity required to make weapons grade plutonium?”
Actually, There is no weapons grade plutonium as it is all plutonium. Uranium has two isotopes and enrichment seperates the the two. U235 is the good stuff but makes up about .07% of naturally found uranium. Thus enrichment is required to get the good stuff.
While I generally agree with your take “Inspectors can only see what they are allowed to see” and that reliable reporting from them is probably unlikely, there are almost certainly ways to deduce what level of enrichment is present based upon any number of ancillary factors, such as how much waste/byproduct or non-fissionable U-238 is being sloughed off, or the concentration of certain gasses along the centrifuge chain. The Iranians might have easily let slip a clue without intending to do so. Don’t forget that centifugation has been the primary means of enrichment among friendly Euro countries for 35+ years and the process details are probably extremely well researched and documented. Again, that doesn’t mean the inspectors are reporting accurately, but why are they at 84%? Not 82%? 85%?
If you’ll recall, Israeli commandos took soil samples around the Osirak reactor before the IAF bombed the thing to smithereens [in ‘81?] and were able to determine that the reactor had not yet been made operational; because they did not want a breach from a bombing to scatter radionucleides all over. The chemistry of the enrichment process is extremely well known. Just the reading from a single meter that wasn’t duct-taped over in the Iranian facility could furnish a very strong clue.
Iran has been months away from a nuke for 20 years now.
84% is what they found. Who knows what they have?
Good one!
Add that to Beijing Bidens many accomplishments.
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