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As previous posting, I pointed out :
1. USA ever transfered a reactor using HEU to Vietnam since 1963.
2. Vietnam surely own HEU and having experience of operating reactor of HEU during decades
3. Vietnam keep their right to enrich uranium in any agreement to others.
4. With fully support of rich experient countries in nuclear technology, Vietnam could harvest and process and enrich uranium right in Vietnam territory using domestic or imported materials ( agreed as 123 agreement )
So Vietnam could have HEU if they want.
Tell me Vietnam is a nuclear state or not.
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Below is how HEU using.
Types of Fissile Material Main Uses
(Nuclear weapons uses in italics)
Highly Enriched
Uranium (HEU) many research reactors, U.S., British, and Russian naval propulsion reactors, nuclear weapons, military plutonium and tritium production reactors
Plutonium
nuclear weapons
Enriching uranium is both technically difficult and expensive,as it requires separating isotopes that have very similar chemical and physical properties. The enrichment process is thus the main barrier to producing uranium suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
Low-enriched uranium (LEU) contains between 0.7 percent and 20 percent uranium-235, and highly enriched uranium (HEU) contains 20 percent or more uranium-235. LEU is not directly usable for weapons. HEU produced for weapons ("weapon-grade" uranium) is typically enriched to 90 percent uranium-235 or greater, but all HEU can be used to make nuclear weapons. The difficulty and expense of the enrichment process has an important consequence: HEU can be diluted with natural uranium to produce LEU, effectively eliminating the risk that it could be used to make a nuclear weapon if stolen by terrorists.
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Remember, there's only 9-12kg of HEU could make an atomic bomb in minimum.
Officially, Vietnam returned 16 kgs of HEU to Russia.
And uranium mines inside Vietnam have the capacity of hundreds thousand ton of uranium ores.
1. USA ever transfered a reactor using HEU to Vietnam since 1963.
2. Vietnam surely own HEU and having experience of operating reactor of HEU during decades
3. Vietnam keep their right to enrich uranium in any agreement to others.
4. With fully support of rich experient countries in nuclear technology, Vietnam could harvest and process and enrich uranium right in Vietnam territory using domestic or imported materials ( agreed as 123 agreement )
So Vietnam could have HEU if they want.
Tell me Vietnam is a nuclear state or not.
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Below is how HEU using.
Types of Fissile Material Main Uses
(Nuclear weapons uses in italics)
Highly Enriched
Uranium (HEU) many research reactors, U.S., British, and Russian naval propulsion reactors, nuclear weapons, military plutonium and tritium production reactors
Plutonium
nuclear weapons
Enriching uranium is both technically difficult and expensive,as it requires separating isotopes that have very similar chemical and physical properties. The enrichment process is thus the main barrier to producing uranium suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
Low-enriched uranium (LEU) contains between 0.7 percent and 20 percent uranium-235, and highly enriched uranium (HEU) contains 20 percent or more uranium-235. LEU is not directly usable for weapons. HEU produced for weapons ("weapon-grade" uranium) is typically enriched to 90 percent uranium-235 or greater, but all HEU can be used to make nuclear weapons. The difficulty and expense of the enrichment process has an important consequence: HEU can be diluted with natural uranium to produce LEU, effectively eliminating the risk that it could be used to make a nuclear weapon if stolen by terrorists.
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Remember, there's only 9-12kg of HEU could make an atomic bomb in minimum.
Officially, Vietnam returned 16 kgs of HEU to Russia.
And uranium mines inside Vietnam have the capacity of hundreds thousand ton of uranium ores.
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