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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 15, 2017, 03:05:18 am
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Report: Russia is giving uranium to Iran
By: Don Wrightman
Date: January 13, 2017
in: Current Events, Energy, Nuclear weapons, Toxic chemicals
According to unidentified Iranian diplomats, Iran will receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia, as compensation for exports consisting of 40 metric tonnes, or 44 US tons of reactor coolant. Two senior diplomats said that the transfer was recently approved by America’s outgoing Obama administration, along with five other world governments, who seek to keep the Tehran committed to a landmark nuclear pact.
Iran is scheduled to receive 116 metric tonnes, which is nearly 130 US tons of natural uranium. Approval is still required from the UN Security Council as a formality, but shouldn’t be an issue considering the other five powers are permanent members of the Security Council.
Uranium can be enriched to serve several different purposes. It can be used as reactor fuel, for medical and research purposes; or to form the core of an atomic bomb. Iran insists they have no intentions of weaponizing the uranium, but their activities will be closely monitored under the nuclear pact, which should keep them peaceful.
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Sources:
Yahoo.com
IbTimes.com
Continued: http://www.newstarget.com/2017-01-13-report-russia-is-giving-uranium-to-iran.html
Yes, I guess the US under Clinton shipped some Uranium to Russia.
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I think Obama has beaten the Russkies to that punch in terms of enabling Tehran to create and possess fissile materials.
Then again, Clinton handed the Chicoms ballistic missile tech to enable them to create MIRVable ICBMs and 3 stage rocket tech 30 years ahead of where they were for campaign donations back in '96.
I think that was when Al Gore was busy pissing tea in the bathroom.
I find it hilarious that the media is attempting to blame Russia in the midst of all this 'interfering with our election' pap for all the world's woes when they spent their entire generation fighting for the old Soviet system.
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Gog and Magog from the bible
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Oh well, no one criticize Putin over this, I'm sure we can find fault with Rubio. (/s)
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Couple of things to keep in mind with this:
1. Reactor coolant (if it's not water), is not something Iran can domestically produce.
2. Natural uranium is not useable for bomb-making. In fact, you can handle it with your bare hands. It has to be refined to sort out the impurities before it can even be processed into reactor fuel. And even reactor fuel isn't potent enough for nuclear bombs.
Only when enough is processed into 80% (much better if you really want an explosion) U-235 can nuclear bombs be considered. And to get there, you need to use centrfuges to seperate out the U-235 from the rest of the uranium. Large numbers of centrifuges, a lot of power to operate them, specialized machinery and goods, and a lot of time.
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BTW: Iran has it's own uranium deposits. Any argument that claims we need to stop this to keep uranium out of their hands is automatically invalid.
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Oh well, no one criticize Putin over this, I'm sure we can find fault with Rubio. (/s)
There was a previous article claiming that Obama was the one directing the Russians to release the Uranium. As if Putin takes his orders...
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Couple of things to keep in mind with this:
Only when enough is processed into 80% (much better if you really want an explosion) U-235 can nuclear bombs be considered. And to get there, you need to use centrfuges to seperate out the U-235 from the rest of the uranium. Large numbers of centrifuges, a lot of power to operate them, specialized machinery and goods, and a lot of time.
Couple of articles to keep in mind:
Iran has 19,000 centrifuges already spinning Kerry says: blames Bush (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/19000-centrifuges-already-spinning-kerry-implies-irans-enrichment)
Iran to begin gas injection into new, advanced centrifuges (http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-to-begin-gas-injection-into-new-advanced-centrifuges/)
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Who gave you access to more uranium, Vlad?
Hint:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LXm6ashGOf0/hqdefault.jpg)
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Couple of articles to keep in mind:
Iran has 19,000 centrifuges already spinning Kerry says: blames Bush (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/19000-centrifuges-already-spinning-kerry-implies-irans-enrichment)
Iran to begin gas injection into new, advanced centrifuges (http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-to-begin-gas-injection-into-new-advanced-centrifuges/)
These articles reference the situation as it stood *BEFORE* the agreement.
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Who gave you access to more uranium, Vlad?
Hint:
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LXm6ashGOf0/hqdefault.jpg)
Russia has it's own uranium mines. How elese do you think they built their own nukes?
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These articles reference the situation as it stood *BEFORE* the agreement.
An "Agreement" we still do not know all the details of, and of course - we all know that tehran's Mullahs can ALWAYS be trusted to abide by 'agreements' made with us infidels.
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An "Agreement" we still do not know all the details of, and of course - we all know that tehran's Mullahs can ALWAYS be trusted to abide by 'agreements' made with us infidels.
There are ways to check.
And I remember press citing those organizations who do monitor such things... verifying the centrifuges were not in operation anymore.
Of course, they could scrap the agreement and restart. Or they could wait for America to scrap the agreement for them. Then they wouldn't be viewed as the ones in violation.
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There are ways to check.
And I remember press citing those organizations who do monitor such things... verifying the centrifuges were not in operation anymore.
I will believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, before I will believe that Iran's enrichment program is not in operation anymore.