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Arak was an important step, yes but it seems that giving up on the small amount of Plutonium
That small amount (10kg) if separated would be enough for 1-2 nuclear bombs a year. That’s not something to sneeze at.
Compare that to how many IR-1 or IR-2M centrifuges have to spin and how much raw uranium has to be injected in order to get the equivalent 90+% enriched weapons grade uranium for a comparable amount of nuclear weapons.
Selling Arak for reactor technology was the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Eventually once the nuclear stand off was resolved Iran could task Russia or another country to assist with developing a reactor.
Instead, it gave up a valuable dual path approach to atomic bomb.
Once a machine like IR-9 becomes operational, dozens of bombs can be produced annually.
But whats important: Enrichment can't be detected or tracked if done in the right way.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia are going after enrichment as well. it would have been highly unlikely in 2015 for Iran to agree to dismantling its enrichment capability.
Arak was a foolish gamble. The dual pathway was given up way too easy. If Anything Iran should have agreed to remove the reactor core and put it in safe storage for at least 10 years before destroying it.
Pouring concrete day 1? Amateur move. Made it easier for US to rip up the deal down the road.
So was concrete poured into the calandria vessel or the pit and surrounding pipe network as seen in that picture with everyone standing around pit full of concrete?Thats what they did, the reactor vessel is still intact, concrete was only poured into the surrounding piping, which is reversible with some time.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia must fist learn much about centrifuges and then manage to import the necessary materials to build them. Difficult job.
So was concrete poured into the calandria vessel or the pit and surrounding pipe network as seen in that picture with everyone standing around pit full of concrete?
When they run the cold water test this year, will that mean that the damage has been reversed?
So was concrete poured into the calandria vessel or the pit and surrounding pipe network as seen in that picture with everyone standing around pit full of concrete?
When they run the cold water test this year, will that mean that the damage has been reversed?
Salehi claims he “fooled” the west and they didn’t actually pour concrete into the reactor.
It’s a lie. Reactor is useless now. @PeeD is wrongNuclear Chief Says Iran Hid Information About Heavy Water Reactor
Iran nuclear chief said in an interview he had lied about destroying heavy water reactor during nuclear agreement.www.google.com
Salehi said Iran had extra pressure tubes ,that would be installed in calandria fuel channel, & were concealed by Iran back then ...they actually poured concrete not into the reactor but in pressure tubes ... and base on his claims calandria was kept and now stored extra pressure tubes have been installed in it...Salehi claims he “fooled” the west and they didn’t actually pour concrete into the reactor.
Nuclear Chief Says Iran Hid Information About Heavy Water Reactor
Iran nuclear chief said in an interview he had lied about destroying heavy water reactor during nuclear agreement.www.google.com
It’s a lie. Reactor is useless now. @PeeD is wrong
I believe The cold test is with the “new” reactor that doesn’t produce plutonium. Could be wrong.
We had much more pre-JCPOA.
almost 10 years later. Where is IR-6? IR-8?
At best Iran is at 4-5 SWU with IR-2M and IR-4.
It needs to be at 10+ SWU per centrifuge (and more like 20-25 SWU) to reach its goal of 250,000 SWU and 1M in the long run.
You are the one who suggested to negotiate with Trump. The only one in this forum who suggested that.
Result would be no nuclear activity, no regional power, no missiles beyond 300 km.