Iran's Arak Plutonium Reactor - easy for Israel to demolish and it just might

AmericanThinker ^ | January 7, 2014 | By S. Fred Singer

[dennisw]

Israel is not a party to the just signed Geneva Agreement, which includes the United States, Russia, China, UK, France, and Germany; she may decide to bomb the Arak reactor and thereby eliminate one certain route for Iran to gain a nuclear weapon. Recall that India's 1974 nuclear test explosion used Pu-239 made in the CIRUS "research" reactor, which had been constructed in the 1950s with US-Canadian assistance.

Israel has a lot of experience in destroying such reactors. In 1981 they bombed Osiris, a similar reactor under construction with French help in Iraq. In September 2007, in Operation "Mivtza Bustan" (Orchard), Israel destroyed a plutonium reactor at al-Kibar, Syria, being built with North Korean assistance, and and financed by Iran. There is no evidence of US participation in either operation -- though it did align with Western strategic objectives on nuclear non-proliferation.

In the case of Iran, much has been written about its enrichment of uranium in underground facilities that are well protected. Iran employs centrifuges, although there are other methods that can be used and work well. But Iran has also been constructing a nuclear reactor near Arak, capable of producing weapons-grade Pu-239, sufficient for about one bomb per year.

Arak is located about halfway between Isfahan and Tehran, somewhat to the west and close to the Iraqi border. The reactor installation is above ground, fairly extensive, and has been photographed many times.

According to the White House press release, Iran has agreed to stop its construction of the reactor -- although Iran does not share this interpretation. Negotiations are continuing to settle this dispute. It should be noted that the Geneva Agreement permits Iran to continue uranium enrichment to low levels, essentially negating six separate UN Security Council resolutions that demand Iran stop all enrichment activities.

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[Eleutheria5]

It would be a fool’s errand. Can’t airstrike every place, because enrichment or plutonium production would continue elsewhere. Can’t really airstrike any place due to US interference. A ground invasion would take more man power than Israel has, and would not be supported by US, EU, or anyone else. We must seriously mess with their computers, or something. Copy structure of Obama’s brain, and turn it into a fatal virus for Iranian IT, worse than Michelangelo.