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2021-05-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IAEA chief: Iran’s uranium enrichment now at levels of ‘countries making bombs’

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-27 01:54|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#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|| 2021-05-27 19:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-05-27 19:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-05-27 21:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-05-27 21:48|| Front Page Top

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