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Iran Wants to Import Tons of Uranium. Opponents of the Nuclear Deal Want ..Trump ..to Say No
The Weekly Standard ^
| 04/21/2017
| Jenna Lifhits
Posted on 04/21/2017 10:50:28 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
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To: clearcarbon
If North Korea is any clue, it’s going to be testing some bombs. Strategic patience my a- ! Thanks Obama.
To: Cubs Fan
Well, if it weren’t for them being raving islamic ***holes, it would be because you would prefer to use your petroleum reserves for lubricants, feedstocks and motor fuels or sell it to others for refining into same.
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posted on
04/22/2017 9:16:41 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: ForYourChildren
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
Joseph Stalin
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posted on
04/22/2017 9:41:25 AM PDT
by
AmusedBystander
(The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
To: ForYourChildren
I vote we send them some depleted uranium.
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posted on
04/23/2017 1:54:24 AM PDT
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
To: ForYourChildren
Thank goodness the Brits blocked it last time.
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posted on
04/23/2017 5:35:15 AM PDT
by
KittyKares
(Drain the Swamp)
To: Jimmy The Snake
U236 is not naturally occurring. It is created by U235 absorbing a neutron. This means the uranium being enriched had to been exposed to a neutron flux of some type - and most likely a reactor. The IAEA table for U236 neutron cross section is 5 barns for radiative capture which is more than 100 times less than the fission cross section for U235. See
http://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-fuel/uranium/uranium-236/.
I'm actually very familiar with centrifuge and other types of Uranium enrichment.
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05/10/2017 7:09:56 PM PDT
by
103198
(It's the metadata stupid...)
To: 103198
Nice link - thanks.
So U236 are the U235 atoms that absorbed the Neutron and did not split and go boom. So U236 being present is evidence that fission had been going on most likely in a reactor.
To: Jimmy The Snake
Exactly...
When a neutron hits a U235 atom, a number of things can happen. The most productive is fission. But U236 production can occur too with about a 18% probability, if I remember correctly. That's what makes the Iranian Uranium feed to their centrifuges a little odd.
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05/12/2017 7:00:54 PM PDT
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103198
(It's the metadata stupid...)
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