[RISU]

Brazilians .. among my favorite people. But you have to watch em. Remember, it was a Brazilian scientist who suggested sending a rocket to the SUN "at night", so it wouldn't melt!

[TC Rider]

Brazil's National Commission of Nuclear Energy still maintains that any nuclear material sold by Brazil to Iraq during that time was powdered uranium dioxide, a raw material used for nuclear reactor fuel.

"That material -- which is not the same as the material known as 'yellow cake' (uranium freshly mined from the ground that cannot be used for nuclear weapons) -- was not smuggled," said a statement sent to United Press International.

My BS detector is going off. Uranium Dioxide is the first of several intermediate steps in processing Uranium from yellowcake or uranium ore. It's referred to as a reduction form since it will extract potent uranium metal from bulky ore. Still not suitable for weapons, but easier to transport.

I am not a physicist or chemist, but have been to United Nuclear's mine at Atlantic City.

Here's a link that will curl your hair

This link details the process to convert Uranium Dioxide to UF6 which can be enriched.

To bad our lame media won't do this research.

[Tunehead54]

And France and Russia sold relatively small amounts -- 50 kilograms -- of highly enriched, weapons-ready uranium to Iraq during the same period.

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I thought you needed less than a pound to make a 5KT Atomic Bomb? So maybe he can make 10 nukes? Aside - is this Albright any relation to Madame Halfbright? Sounds like her twin ...

[Robert_Paulson2]

This weekend's news leak.... I am guessing.

Iraq HAS the fissionable materials... AFTER a week of Tom Daschle vasilation and "soft on terror" panderings to the leftists...

[piasa]

fyi