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To: BenLurkin; Freedom4US

Iran has only had working P-1 centrifuges for enrichment. Crude but eventually effective.

Iran’s problem is that their fuel is heavily contaminated with molybdenum. Moly atoms are almost the same “size” as uranium and plug up the centrifuge tubes, destroying them.

So what Iran has been doing all this time is refining out the Moly to get pure uranium fuel that can be quickly enriched to weapons grade, 85%+.

So the weight of the enriched fuel stays close to the limits, but it is much purer as time goes on.

If they can ever get a P-2 working, they could produce enough for a small atomic bomb at least every 30 days from a device the size of a refrigerator drawing very little power, virtually undetectable.


14 posted on 07/02/2019 10:05:14 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

How many centrifuges does North Korea have?


15 posted on 07/02/2019 10:12:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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