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AP: Iran Converts Uranium Into [Uranium Hexafluoride] Gas
AP, via Yahoo! ^
| 10/6/2004
| ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Posted on 10/06/2004 1:30:31 AM PDT by Redcloak
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At the risk of understatement, this is not a good thing; especially when one considers the long range missile test they did just recently. Conversion of uranium to uranium hexafluoride gas is a vital step toward producing nuclear weapons. The difference in mass between U235 and U238 can be exploited when the metal is in this gaseous state. And for those who don't understand the difference, it's the former that can go *BOOM!*.
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:30:32 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
To: Redcloak
Tick Tock
To: Redcloak
But, but Iran needs nuclear energy...they don't have any access to fossil fuels.
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:32:58 AM PDT
by
zarf
(I hate THe freakin TH keys. I THink I THought....THey THuck!!)
To: zarf
Oh, yeah... That's right... The U
235 must be so that they can have more energy to power more Western consumer electronics. </sarcasm>
Just remember: John Kerry wanted to give nuclear fuel to the Iranian mullahs... for energy production.
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:36:25 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Vikings plundered my last tag line.)
To: Redcloak
Centrifuges are never used to refine uranium from uranium ore, are they? The only reason to go the centrifuge route is to separate U238 (used in A-bombs) from the U235 after the uranium's been refined from the ore, isn't it?
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:39:58 AM PDT
by
jennyp
(...it's just a third-rate forgery.)
To: jennyp
Uh, nevermind.
This scientist implies that it would be necessary for the normal enrichment that you'd do to make it suitable for a reactor.
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:44:04 AM PDT
by
jennyp
(...it's just a third-rate forgery.)
To: jennyp
As far as I know (And I'll leave more definitive responses to our resident Glow-boys), a nuclear reactor can run on mixed fuel; i.e. rods that contain both isotopes. I don't think that you need to pull out the U235 to make the reactor work. The only real reason would be to obtain the isotope for weapons.
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posted on
10/06/2004 1:48:35 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Vikings plundered my last tag line.)
To: Redcloak
Do you know how many steps are left for them to make a bomb?
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:01:57 AM PDT
by
DC Bound
To: Redcloak
Hello, Israel? Fire-up the F-16s and re-fueling tankers. I wonder if they have any B-52s?
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:04:13 AM PDT
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: Redcloak
This is all George Bush's fault, as any nuanced thinker knows.
Now, if John Kerry were in charge, he would have just given the Iranians the enriched fuel, and they would not need to take this dangerous, risky step.
(steely)
To: zarf
But, but Iran needs nuclear energy...they don't have any access to fossil fuels.
Pretty much true, though they do have a lot of oil and gas.
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posted on
10/06/2004 3:14:18 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Redcloak
Mousavian, who also heads the Foreign Policy Committee at Iran's powerful Supreme National Security Council, said the process was under full IAEA supervision. "Every stage of the process is under full IAEA supervision. The agency knows of every milligram of uranium converted," he said.
Considering Muslims and Europeans run the IAEA, I'm not at all reassured. After all, the IAEA "knew" of every milligram of uranium involved in North Korea before they got kicked out, and not only does Krazy Kim have nukes (or so he says), he and his minions fashoined the first couple BEFORE the IAEA got themselves kicked out.
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posted on
10/06/2004 4:05:02 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(It's OVER - 1 day, 2 hours, 38 minutes, 46 seconds for the FReepathon, a NEW RECORD!)
To: Redcloak
funny you should mention western consumer electronics... drive around tehran at all and you will see billboards for tvs and videos and mobile phones everywhere. you would be suprised how much stuff they have. much of iran is not like the dusty poor iraq we see on tv... well some of it IS like that, but much of it (especially north tehran) is tree lined, full of new peugots and the houses have big tvs and get european satellite from illegal roof dishes.
anyway, off-topic but your comment about consumer electronics made me think the picture people have of iran isnt quite what the reality is... and the reality is that they spend a lot of time in their homes (since most fun things are illegal) and the middle/upper classes spend a lot of money on these goods.
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posted on
10/06/2004 4:26:16 AM PDT
by
sweneop
To: aruanan
Pretty much true, though they do have a lot of oil and gasLet them burn fossilized camel dung.
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posted on
10/06/2004 4:48:22 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: Redcloak
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posted on
10/06/2004 4:51:48 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
To: Redcloak
Nothing to see here. Just Iran trying to reduce its dependency on Mid-East oil.
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posted on
10/06/2004 4:55:55 AM PDT
by
Rutles4Ever
("...upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.")
To: Redcloak
Within a couple of weeks, the storage facility housing the gas is probably going to have an "accident".
Big explosion. Lots of casualties.
Major bummer.
Try not to be real shocked.
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posted on
10/06/2004 5:54:40 AM PDT
by
A Real Dan Fan... NOT
(John F. Kerry. Man of the world, enemy of America.)
To: Redcloak
I can only make 'U 235' and 'U 238' on my 1973 typewriter.
"How'd you do that?" asks Dan Rather.
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posted on
10/06/2004 6:49:35 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Write-in Tom Tancredo for President/Jeff Flake VP 2004!)
To: zarf
They can use their mullahs for fossils..
To: Rutles4Ever
Thats really nice of them to make efforts to share 100% of their oil with everyone else! With nuclear technology in Iran, there's no reason why they can't GIVE the oil to charity! How nice of them!
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posted on
10/06/2004 7:35:09 AM PDT
by
ruiner
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