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The assumption here is that only 60% enriched uranium will be used. How do you use 60% uranium? You mix it in with natural uranium to obtain the proper degree of enrichment for the reactor design.
Do you favor a pre-emptive bombing of North Korea because they hate us and have plenty of nukes? If not, why not?
Iran does not have a nuke yet
”What commercial reactor needs hundreds of Kgs of 60%+ enriched U-235 to function?
Is Iran on the vanguard of efficiency or just working through it's first few domestic nuclear plant?
Is Iran the size and scope of US Industry that it needs to dispose of highly enriched uranium? Why bother in the first place?”
A country that’s been embargoed for 45 years might not expect a ready supply of foreign-sourced 4% uranium. Hence the 100 kg stockpile of 60%.
To be facile, if I expected an orange juice shortage, I’d stockpile oj concentrate.

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A country that’s been embargoed for 45 years might not expect a ready supply of foreign-sourced 4% uranium. Hence the 100 kg stockpile of 60%.
To be facile, if I expected an orange juice shortage, I’d stockpile oj concentrate.
Can the Big and Little Satans disappear the world's 5th largest oil reserve from beneath the surface of Iran?
Reactors aren’t easy to start and stop. I imagine they’d rather not run out of fuel for those, and prepared with enriched U accordingly. Sure, they could rely on fossil fuels. But that’s another topic of Iran wanting to seem technologically developed. Like their obsession with fighter jets and other symbolic displays of modernity.

When I want to build a peaceful nuclear energy program, I always build it deep below the surface where it requires 30,000-pound bunker busters to access it, while pledging to die rather than surrender it.
When a large country with clean energy offers me some fuel and tech so I don't have to do it all myself, I reject it. Just cause I like to spend lots of money as a mid-tier entity.
Because you see, I'm really passionate about clean energy.
It's strange but I can't remember any summer since the 1960's when there wasn't some shit going on in the Middle East.
It's too bad we're directly involving ourselves in it.
I wish they could make four assholes "magically disappear"; Putin, Xi, Kim, Khomeini.

Here’s the thing: the enriched uranium apparently wasn’t at the three bombed sites. “The stockpile was believed to have been mainly at Isfahan,” the Journal reported. “But it could have been moved.” Iran moved it beforehand —confirming advance notice— but leaving something to negotiate over.
Which brings us to this curious line from VP Vance on ABC’s This Week: “We are going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel, and that’s one of the things we’re going to have conversations with the Iranians about.”
Vance pointed out that, following the strikes, Iran no longer has the ability to rapidly weaponize the fuel. “And that was really the goal here,” he said. Critics cried he was moving the goalposts! But … was he? What if he’s telling the truth? What if this is all going according to a backroom agreement?
Let’s try a little thought experiment. Picture the tense U.S.-Iran talks before Saturday’s strikes. Suppose Iran agreed to permanently shut down the three enrichment sites. “Okay,” the U.S. negotiators say, “but we need to bomb them.” Then, “fine,” say the mullahs, “just give us a couple days to rent some U-Hauls and pack up the centrifuges.”
Even temporary rubble over those labs buys everyone breathing room and cools the radioactive fever. Now the big question is: what happens to the uranium? Funny you should ask. Yesterday, Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. The meeting’s agenda is “consultations on how to proceed,” the Journal said, without explaining further.
Proceed… with what, exactly? It’s possible they are discussing terms for Russian custody of Iran’s enriched uranium— a job the Russians have previously volunteered for. Obviously, I don’t know. I’m just a lawyer. We’ll know soon enough whether my theory holds plutonium.
we nuked Japan twice, what restraint?




Patrick says
Violence works!
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Sub-optimally, we did it, since there is nothing that can really carry bombs big enough in the IDF inventory.
Khameni vanished and neither he or his delegates were no shows the last negotiation offer by Trump in the past hours.
Should have taken the deal! It was the best deal.
Got rid of Iran's nuclear bomb development program (60% enriched uranium in the 100s of pounds can be for nothing BUT nuclear weapons)
Now it's time for peace - Peace through Strength. Not endlessly crossed redlines or negotiations to nowhere like Obama-Biden.