[Dave346]

Um no. Bushehr has been downplayed publicly in order to defend the Russians who built it. Bushehr is capable of producing a quarter ton of plutonium per year, enough for 30 bombs. The other sites aren’t nearly as important.

[agere_contra]

Really? Frack, I didn’t know that.

Ah well, Bushehr really is ‘Uncle Target’ then.

[103198]

My point is the fissile Plutonium production will be limited by the core residence time. This will transmute portions of the Pu-239 into Pu-240 (and of course Pu-241 -> Pu-242) which is a neutron sink. A heavy water reactor or graphite reactor with a short core residence time would work. I don't think this plant will work to enable the Iranians to produce any weapons grade Plutonium - but lots of radioactive isotopes and ‘mixed’ Plutonium.