[silentknight]

What choice does Israel have now?

IF they start that plant then isn’t it game over? They can’t bomb a plant that is operating. Wouldn’t it cause a potential nuclear meltdown?

Is this the end? Game over?

Any comments from those who know more about this subject?

[maquiladora]

Israel attacked reactors in Iraq and Syria, each time just before the fuel arrived at the site.

This reactor is more of a longterm nuclear threat. It’s not related to the uranium enrichment program that could give Iran a nuke within months.

But even though it is a longterm danger, once the reactor is ‘hot’ then it becomes pretty much untouchable from then on.

[sefarkas]

Fuel is already on-site. The fuel bundles are more vunerable outside the containment building than inside. Fuel load would take a few days for that size reactor. Fuel is relatively clean until first chain reaction, i.e., no significant mass of fission products yet. Containment building is robust. Reactor vessel is several inches thick high quality steel. Once the fuel is in the reactor, it is effectively impervious to even the most awesome weapons. Recall the picture of Hiroshima and the gutted building near ground-zero? A modern nuclear power plant is much more substantial.