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2006-07-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by ed 2006-07-12 07:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Well, IIRC the raw nuclear material is corrosive to an unbelievable degree - this was a problem during the Manhattan Project that nobody foresaw. Now, add to that the fact that most - if not all - of the centrifuges may have come from other countries (indicating that the MMs either can't make their own or are unable to make/maintain many) and that gives Amidinnerjacket a real problem. He's been making promises with his alligator mouth that his canary ass won't be able to keep.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-12 08:43|| 2006-07-12 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting. I was not aware thet 164 centrifuges are "far short of the threshold of several thousand needed to build a nuclear bomb". I thought it would just take more time that way. Experts?

Also interesting to consider this as disinformation and contemplate the source, timing, and the potential reason for it.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-12 08:54|| 2006-07-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how much these problems are due to "foreign powers" using front companies to provide substandard materials, etc? Remember the doctored nuke designs that the CIA was peddling? Now about those "fragile" centrifuge tubes...

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-07-12 08:58|| 2006-07-12 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 See? Negotiations work. We just need to keep it up.

/LLL moonbat logic

Posted by xbalanke 2006-07-12 08:59|| 2006-07-12 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Smokescreen.

Posted by Glomosh Jinesing1688 2006-07-12 10:07|| 2006-07-12 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 164 centrifuges are "far short of the threshold" for single pass bomb enrichment. But the output can be fed back multiple times to get high enrichment. But it can be impractical due to time requirements.

Previous articles have said the Iranians used Russian supplied UF6 in the centrifuges for their show and tell earlier this year due to contamination in domestic production. But it's a temporary problem. Gas purification has well known solutions. What's new is the high stated failure rate of the centrifuges. Still with 50% failure, they will have to test each centrifuge individually and build twice as many. So build 6,000 to get a 3,000 cascade. The Iranians are planning to intall 50,000 in Natanz alone.

Posted by ed 2006-07-12 10:37|| 2006-07-12 10:37|| Front Page Top

#7 how can this be? the Iranians do not have a nuke enrichment program, only peaceful research. the press clippings are right...around.....here.. somewhere........I think I left them in my pants and they went thru the laundry, nothing left but worthess pulp.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-07-12 14:25|| 2006-07-12 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I still think the easiest bet would be to smuggle a very toxic, but otherwise odorless and tasteless chemical into those facilities with a battery powered vaporizer.

Something that will slowly contaminate the entire place so that in a week or two, everybody will die, and the facility will be so contaminated that it can't ever be used again. There are many industrial chemicals that would work, and would irrevocably destroy the liver of every person in there.

This would wipe out most of their nuclear scientists and it would close their facilities.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-12 15:58|| 2006-07-12 15:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the chemical should be undetectable as well as odorless and tasteless.

Posted by 6 2006-07-12 16:23|| 2006-07-12 16:23|| Front Page Top

#10 6

actually, if the technos aren't careful and/or the cetrifuges have leaks there may already be some nasty levels of rad and toxic stuff in the room and as Mike K says, the technos probably are under considerable pressure to keep the machines spinning

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