Posted on 01/11/2016 2:44:33 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Iran has removed the core of its heavy-water nuclear reactor in Arak and filled it with cement, the BBC reported on Monday, citing Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency.
The fate of the reactor was one of the sticking points in nuclear negotiations between Iran and the six world powers, which reached a deal in July of last year.
Under the terms of the deal, Iran agreed the heavy-water reactor would be reconfigured so it was not capable of yielding material for a nuclear weapon.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesperson for Iran's atomic energy agency, told the Etemad newspaper on Monday Iran "has met its commitments under the July nuclear agreement earlier than expected".
"Implementation of JCPOA will finish in the next seven days," he said.
Satellite images from several years ago showed that the Arak plant was operational, raising fears that it is trying to produce plutonium for a nuclear bomb. Iran invited inspectors to visit the plant a year later, shortly after an interim agreement was signed with world powers.
Removing the core of the heavy water reactor to produce less plutonium is a crucial step...
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1. Where is the core now?
2. If this is all based on what Iran says, how can it be verified?
3. Has it been verified?
And we believe this WHY?
What do you mean we, kimosavee? John Kerry believes this and is doubtless beside himself with joy.
I bet he wet himself.
Well, it was reported by Farce after all.
It seems to me that this procedure would have started some time ago, long before the Iran deal.
But then my nuclear engineering creds do not exist so maybe someone who has them can advise.
The Iranian inspector has confirmed that the reactor has been deactivated. What further proof do you require?
Where is the sarc tag?.....lol
With No. 1 or No. 3?
Then they are making weapons grade material somewhere else.
This is just show, if it’s true to begin with.
But did he say “honest injun?”
What could possibly go wrong?
John Hanoi Kerry believed that he was in Cambodia for Christmas.
It reached a high enough level of plutonium, so they took it out to enrich it.
I don’t think Plutonium needs enrichment. It is ipso fatso weapons grade.
it’s da bomb...
That should be the first question posed to the traitor and SoS at his next news conference.
“Under the terms of the deal, Iran agreed...”
Why do I have a hard time believing any of that crap?
A portion of the uranium in a reactor core turns into plutonium. It has to be at a high enough level to make isolation practical. Also, about 25 lbs is needed to make a bomb.
I guess the Iranians calculated the reactor core had cooked enough plutonium to be usable.
Indeed, the fuel rods they removed contain the plutonium. Filling the containment vessel with concrete is a meaning less gesture. Where they removed the core to is the question.
Removing the core means they are in the final stages of bomb construction.
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