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| IAEA chief: Iran’s uranium enrichment now at levels of ‘countries making bombs’ |
| 2021-05-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Head of UN nuclear watchdog urges tight monitoring, warns that even if 2015 pact is revived Iranian program cannot be rolled back to previous status. The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has said Iran is enriching uranium to levels that only countries seeking to make atomic weapons reach, and that the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program can no longer be returned to where it stood when a landmark 2015 deal was struck with world powers. “A country enriching at 60 percent is a very serious thing — only countries making bombs are reaching this level,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday and cited by the Reuters News Agency. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Or they could set off a dirty bomb in Gaza right after an Israeli attack. Claim Israel is using dirty weapons. The media would *jump* at it! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-27 21:48 |
| #3 The end game for Iran is a bomb, but along the way, there are a lot of enrichment products that could be used to dirty-up conventional munitions. Doesn't even need to be a dangerous amount of radiation, just enough to ping a Geiger counter and set off a media panic. And if they use one of their cat's paws, they get plausible deniability. For small values of plausible, anyway. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-05-27 21:12 |
| #2 So they're 99% of the way to enriching it to bomb level enrichment, if that's 100%, which it isn't. The "60%" enrichment level is kind of deceptive without this explanation. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-27 19:20 |
| #1 To explain the math... If you look at the enrichment process as removing U238 from a sample, well... unenriched Uranium is 0.7% 235. To enrich it to 60%, you'd need to remove a fraction of the sample equivelent to (1-(.007*(3/2)) which works out to 98.95 %. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-27 19:18 |