To: Mitchell
Source is John Batchelor of WABC:
who got it from the Washington Post website,
but added that the aid consisted of gas centrifuges
to make plutonium.
He did not indicate where he obtained this information.
40 posted on
11/12/2002 10:41:50 PM PST by
Nogbad
To: Nogbad
John Batchelor has gotten scoops before, hasn't he? I never see him credited later though.
41 posted on
11/12/2002 10:52:13 PM PST by
Mitchell
To: Nogbad
gas centrifuges to make plutonium. Something about this doesn't ring true. Gas centrifuges are used for enriching uranium. I could be wrong, but I don't think centrifuges are used in plutonium separation. (If I remember right, plutonium is produced in nuclear reactors as a by-product of a nuclear reaction involving uranium, and the plutonium is then separated chemically.)
43 posted on
11/12/2002 11:02:24 PM PST by
Mitchell
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