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2009-06-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran amassed 1,359 kilos of low-enriched uranium: IAEA

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 How much Uranium is needed to run their nuclear reactor(s) for peaceful purposes?

Posted by gorb 2009-06-06 01:16|| 2009-06-06 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > IAEA: MORE NUCLEAR TRACES FOUND IN SYRIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-06 01:57|| 2009-06-06 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Its so funny how the world freaks out about this ? Is this even news and why? HOW MUCH ENRICHED URANIUM DOES THE US HAVE?
what about other countries .Israel? pakistan china? India ..why is that ok? If you destroy your enemies ..your friends will will become them

Posted by Theallseeingeye 2009-06-06 03:54|| 2009-06-06 03:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Re: thenoneseeingeye,

You are not very lucid today are you?

Posted by Whosh Scourge of the Hatfields1808 2009-06-06 04:47|| 2009-06-06 04:47|| Front Page Top

#5 To be pedantic, low enriched Uranium is what is used in "peaceful" reactors for power generation [whisper] and for Plutonium generation, too.[/whisper] Anything between 5% and 90% (weapons grade) is low enriched. Enough to sustain a chain reaction, not enough to go BOOM!!!!
[/pedant]

"I know everything, you don't even have to ask."

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839 2009-06-06 09:28|| 2009-06-06 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 That's only from the centrifuges Iran has declared.

Posted by ed 2009-06-06 09:33|| 2009-06-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Its so funny how the world freaks out about this ? Is this even news and why?

Probably because Iran is a theocratic oligarchy (I've go so far as to say kleptocracy) and a global loose-cannon?

HOW MUCH ENRICHED URANIUM DOES THE US HAVE?

Enough.

what about other countries .Israel? pakistan china? India ..why is that ok?

With the exception of perhaps Pakistan, none of the other nations have are pathologically-inclined to remove another nation and its people off the globe because they're Jewish. I exclude Hamas and Hesb'allah; they're only murderous rabble.

If you destroy your enemies ..your friends will will become them

There are no 'friends' between nations. There are only coinciding interests.

Posted by Pappy 2009-06-06 13:05|| 2009-06-06 13:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Low enriched uranium sounds like no big deal, but it is. If you can enrich to 5%, then you can enrich it highly enough to make a bomb. Just run the centrifuges longer.

More significantly, the enrichment process gets faster as you go. The first 5% tales by far the longest.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-06 16:07|| 2009-06-06 16:07|| Front Page Top

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