Egypt to Build Nuclear Plants

Associated Press/Yahoo News ^ | October 29, 2007 | By SALLY BUZBEE

[Freeport]

Correct. Light water reactors do: They only consume fuel. I’m not sure about some of the newer ideas, like a sodium cooled reactor.

But if they go with heavy water or graphite then you can crank out plutonium... Not good.

[From One - Many]

Full Believer Here....but I cannot support a nuclear Egypt.

[Red Badger]

That particular prophecy was completed during the conflicts between the Seleucid Dynasty and the Ptolemy Dynasty, both descended from two of Alexander the Great’s generals who divided up his empire after his death. The Ptolemys ruled Egypt and the Seleucids ruled Syria. There were several battles and wars between them, with Jerusalem caught in the middle...........

[kidd]

The waste from a nuclear power plant is highly radioactive. So, on top of all the difficulties associated with isotope separation (toxic gases, expensive equipment, security, etc), you’d have to keep workers away from the stuff. Toxic material then become a mixed hazard, already expensive equipment then needs to be operated robotically and needs to be shielded or operated remotely, equipment maintainance becomes a nightmare, only small quantities can be processed, and security takes on a new facet.

Yes, spent fuel is more enriched than natural uranium. But it is not enriched enough to be used as weapons grade uranium. It still needs enrichment...by the same process used to enrich natural uranium.

It is far easier to enrich uranium to nuclear grade quality from natural uranium. It makes no sense to try to enrich spent fuel when natural uranium is so easy to obtain.

[From One - Many]

Sounds like the material would be ‘dirty bomb’ material immediately. I tend to agree with your assessment, yet spent fuel is often utilized, as could be done with a nuclear Egypt. Egypt is not stable. In fact Egypt is full of fanatics. I could never trust a nuclear Egypt, therefore I could not support a nuclear Egypt. Syria’s reactor was eliminated. An Egyptian reactor would not make the world safer, and therefore would probably have to be eliminated as well. These are dangerous times. Dangerous times demand serious considerations, serious negotiations, and sometimes serious eliminations. To think or do otherwise is to place America at a greater risk than Americans find themselves in at the present....mho

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

21st c nuclear technology in a country still mutilating girls and persecuting Christians. Yeah, that’s a fine idea.

[kidd]

The main hazard with a ‘dirty bomb’ is the explosion itself. The heavy elements in spent fuel do not disperse well.

There is also a lot of hazard associated with the assembly of a dirty bomb. It can be argued that a dirty bomb that uses spent fuel will kill more terrorists than innocents.

The main advantage of a dirty bomb (to the terrorist) is that it is newsworthy. A dirty bomb made from radioactive medical waste presents a smaller hazard to the bomb maker and is equally newsworthy.

[Red Badger]

And at the time of the end....I think this is yet to come, especially because of that statement ...

At the time of the end can have several meanings. The Seleucid king, Antiochus IV, a Greek, tried to Hellenize his empire and that included the Jews in Judea and thus Jerusalem. He attacked Jerusalem and set up pagan gods in the Temple and even forced the Jewish priests to sacrifice pigs to Zeus. The Maccabees led a Jewish revolt and using guerrilla tactics, eventually drove them out of the area (for a while at least). All this was to lay the groundwork for the coming of the Messiah, which eventually brought about "the end" of the Temple and daily sacrifice system................

[Eric Blair 2084]

I know what people are thinking.

Before you jump to conclusions, there is a big difference between Iran and Egypt...Iran has plenty of oil and doesn’t need nuclear power except for a bomb....Egypt has no oil, talk about unlucky. They need alternative power sources.

[Eric Blair 2084]

They don’t need nukes to persecute Copts. They’ve been doing a great job of that without them.

[kabar]

GE is in the game

ESBWR

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They don’t need nukes to persecute Copts. They’ve been doing a great job of that without them.

Ahh, quite true. Here I was thinking they would use nuclear devices to persecute Christians and mutilate girls.
Okay then, they can have nuclear materials. Thanks for setting me straight! ;)

[redgolum]

Makes sense in a way. We invaded what some in Egypt consider part of their country (Iraq), and Israel just bombed their other third (Syria).

So it makes sense that they would start building a reactor there.

[rmlew]

1. The Egyptians have just gotten threw a round of repressing Coptic Christians. This is how we punish them?
2. Mubarak's Arab Nationalist Regime can always be replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood. do we really want them to have nukes?
3. Eisenhower rivals Carter as worst president ever. He supported "non-military nuclear proliferation" and betrayed Englan and France in supporting Egypt in 1956. This destroyed the British Empire, led De Gaulle into the Eurabia Project, strengthened the communist-aligned Arab Nationalists, and heartened Muslim militans. Go Ike!

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[SJackson]

Eisenhower rivals Carter as worst president ever. He supported "non-military nuclear proliferation" and betrayed Englan and France in supporting Egypt in 1956. This destroyed the British Empire, led De Gaulle into the Eurabia Project, strengthened the communist-aligned Arab Nationalists, and heartened Muslim militans. Go Ike!

Nixon acknowledged that as the greatest mistake of the Eisenhower administration in his memoirs, a fact I suspect contributed to his pro-Israel position. Ike is said to have felt the same way according to secondary sources.

[sheik yerbouty]

If shi’ite happens, Egypt may be covered by the waters of Lake Nasser.