Not All Uranium

[BackAgain]

Iran developing nuclear weapons isn't the worst case scenario. Giving them to their terrorist proxies is.

Step 2 requires step 1, though.

So, it makes vastly more sense to prevent that required first step as an extra precaution to avoid step 2.

 

[BackAgain]

Russia used to have defensive nukes in the Ukraine, so then its radar grid is around the Ukraine and Russia together,

Defensive nukes? Would they fire them at incoming missiles?

with no defenses between Russia and the Ukraine.

Russia forgot how to build a "radar grid?

If the Ukraine were to join NATO, then the US could and would put first strike nukes on Russia's border that Russia could not detect until detonation.

What's so magic about 500 miles?

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Also, it’s not “the Ukraine.” It’s simply “Ukraine.”

So, you’re talking to a deliberately ignorant lummox.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Also, it’s not “the Ukraine.” It’s simply “Ukraine.”

So, you’re talking to a deliberately ignorant lummox.

But he has an MS in physics.

LOL!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Wrong.
If you use higher enrichment you do not need more U-235. You need less because fewer neutrons are being wasted and absorbed by useless U-238 atoms.

When you contain nuclear fuel you can never control the direction of the neutrons emitted. But if you remove the U-238, then fewer neutrons are wasted.

Less U-238 is more dangerous, but to deal with that, you make the fuel rods smaller and reduce the inherent density.

Containment dome size is based on the size of the fuel rods, moderator, etc.
So if you can reduce the size of the fuel by making it hotter, (more enriched), then the dome can be smaller as well.

Higher enrichment literally does NOT mean higher mass of fissile material.
The higher the enrichment, the less U-238, so the mass of fissile material is less.

Sure burn up is faster with higher enrichments, but that is why you can use smaller fuel rods and still get the same amount of heat. All new reactors are shrinking down and using higher enrichment fuel.

Can you clarify your position?

Does LEU burn up faster in a reactor, like you said in post #23, or does HEU burn up
faster, like you said in post #49?

 

[Leo123]

1. "Nuclear weapons are both complicated and very simple. Conventional explosives get energy from breaking chemical bonds between atoms. Nuclear bombs release the energy bound up inside individual atoms, a far bigger source of power. The difference in power is staggering. Fat Man, the bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, used fourteen pounds of plutonium to produce a blast with the energy produced by 42 million pounds of conventional explosive. The bomb killed 70,000 people immediately and tens of thousands more over the next generation. Yet by modern standards, the Fat Man bomb is puny.

2. Fortunately for humanity’s survival, most types of atoms can’t be used in nuclear weapons. The exceptions are plutonium and a certain kind of uranium, called U-235, so-called fissile materials.
. In its natural state, uranium ore consists of two different isotopes, U-235 and U-238. They look the same, a heavy dull yellow metal. But they have different atomic structures. U-235 can be used to make a bomb. U-238 can’t.

3. In its natural state, uranium is made up of 97 percent U-238, the useless kind, with just 3 percent U-235 mixed in. When the United States began the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons, its scientists had to find a way to separate the valuable U-235 from U-238. They found the answer in centrifuges, enclosed chambers that spin very fast, and enabled them to pull the lighter U-235 out of the U-238.
In theory, the centrifuge procedure is relatively straightforward. But as the Iranians had found out, bridging the gap between theory and reality could be difficult. Even under the best of circumstances, it required a small army of well-trained engineers and physicists. The Iranians had an added challenge. Because of the threat of the Israeli air force, they were working in labs buried seventy feet underground."
From the novel "The Ghost War," by Alex Berenson, p. 68-70
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4. "During testimony on Capitol Hill last week, U.S. Central Command General Erika Kurilla warned Iran's nuclear program had progressed significantly and into the zone of a three week sprint to 10 nuclear bombs.

"The IAEA uses 90% enrichment as the benchmark for weapons-grade uranium, and it considers 25 kg of 90% enriched uranium enough to construct a simple nuclear weapon. The IAEA estimates current Iranian stockpiles to include over 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium – almost double of what it was just six months ago," Kurilla testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee. This is mere steps from reaching the 90% threshold for weaponization. Should the Regime decide to sprint to a nuclear weapon, it is estimated that current stockpiles and the available centrifuges across several enrichment plants are sufficient to produce its first 25 kg of weapons-grade material in roughly one week and enough for up to ten nuclear weapons in three weeks."

UPDATE: A New Hint; ‘Not in the Mood to Negotiate’: Trump Heads to the Situation Room

Trump heads to the Situation Room, not in the mood to negotiate amid ongoing tensions with Iran.

townhall.com

5. Is, or isn't, a nuclear Iran a threat to the world?

Any country that chants 'death to America' is a threat to the world. In Iran's case, their nuclear bomb program was a direct threat. It's way past time we wiped it out.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Any country that chants 'death to America' is a threat to the world. In Iran's case, their nuclear bomb program was a direct threat. It's way past time we wiped it out.

....and their intercontinental ballistic missile program.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Wrong.
If you use higher enrichment you do not need more U-235. You need less because fewer neutrons are being wasted and absorbed by useless U-238 atoms.

When you contain nuclear fuel you can never control the direction of the neutrons emitted. But if you remove the U-238, then fewer neutrons are wasted.

Less U-238 is more dangerous, but to deal with that, you make the fuel rods smaller and reduce the inherent density.

Containment dome size is based on the size of the fuel rods, moderator, etc.
So if you can reduce the size of the fuel by making it hotter, (more enriched), then the dome can be smaller as well.

Higher enrichment literally does NOT mean higher mass of fissile material.
The higher the enrichment, the less U-238, so the mass of fissile material is less.

Sure burn up is faster with higher enrichments, but that is why you can use smaller fuel rods and still get the same amount of heat. All new reactors are shrinking down and using higher enrichment fuel.

Liar. Moron.

 

[toobfreak]

1. "Nuclear weapons are both complicated and very simple. Conventional explosives get energy from breaking chemical bonds between atoms. Nuclear bombs release the energy bound up inside individual atoms, a far bigger source of power.

To pick a nit, chemical explosives really release energy bound up in chemical reactions between molecules, not atoms, and energy release in a fissile blast is actually energy released from the strong forces holding the nuclei together.

2. In its natural state, uranium ore consists of two different isotopes, U-235 and U-238. They look the same, a heavy dull yellow metal. But they have different atomic structures. U-235 can be used to make a bomb. U-238 can’t.

Actually, 238 can be made into a fissile form of plutonium, but U-235 having three fewer neutrons, is much more easily split by neutron bombardment giving off yet more neutrons, making it highly fissile.

The IAEA uses 90% enrichment as the benchmark for weapons-grade uranium, and it considers 25 kg of 90% enriched uranium enough to construct a simple nuclear weapon.

The Iranians had 60% enriched which is already technically enough to make a bomb with, but not a good bomb, the thing is, the higher the enrichment, the less time it takes to enrich it farther.

 

[justoffal]

What do you suppose a nation with a surfeit of oil is planning to do with weaponized uranium?

That's simple.... They will use it to cure several million cases of prostate cancer by surgical insertion.

 

[PoliticalChic]

That's simple.... They will use it to cure several million cases of prostate cancer by surgical insertion.

They have a long history of removing, not the prostate......but the occiput.

Easy mistake to make......

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

1. "Nuclear weapons are both complicated and very simple. Conventional explosives get energy from breaking chemical bonds between atoms. Nuclear bombs release the energy bound up inside individual atoms, a far bigger source of power. The difference in power is staggering. Fat Man, the bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, used fourteen pounds of plutonium to produce a blast with the energy produced by 42 million pounds of conventional explosive. The bomb killed 70,000 people immediately and tens of thousands more over the next generation. Yet by modern standards, the Fat Man bomb is puny.

2. Fortunately for humanity’s survival, most types of atoms can’t be used in nuclear weapons. The exceptions are plutonium and a certain kind of uranium, called U-235, so-called fissile materials.
. In its natural state, uranium ore consists of two different isotopes, U-235 and U-238. They look the same, a heavy dull yellow metal. But they have different atomic structures. U-235 can be used to make a bomb. U-238 can’t.

3. In its natural state, uranium is made up of 97 percent U-238, the useless kind, with just 3 percent U-235 mixed in. When the United States began the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons, its scientists had to find a way to separate the valuable U-235 from U-238. They found the answer in centrifuges, enclosed chambers that spin very fast, and enabled them to pull the lighter U-235 out of the U-238.
In theory, the centrifuge procedure is relatively straightforward. But as the Iranians had found out, bridging the gap between theory and reality could be difficult. Even under the best of circumstances, it required a small army of well-trained engineers and physicists. The Iranians had an added challenge. Because of the threat of the Israeli air force, they were working in labs buried seventy feet underground."
From the novel "The Ghost War," by Alex Berenson, p. 68-70
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4. "During testimony on Capitol Hill last week, U.S. Central Command General Erika Kurilla warned Iran's nuclear program had progressed significantly and into the zone of a three week sprint to 10 nuclear bombs.

"The IAEA uses 90% enrichment as the benchmark for weapons-grade uranium, and it considers 25 kg of 90% enriched uranium enough to construct a simple nuclear weapon. The IAEA estimates current Iranian stockpiles to include over 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium – almost double of what it was just six months ago," Kurilla testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee. This is mere steps from reaching the 90% threshold for weaponization. Should the Regime decide to sprint to a nuclear weapon, it is estimated that current stockpiles and the available centrifuges across several enrichment plants are sufficient to produce its first 25 kg of weapons-grade material in roughly one week and enough for up to ten nuclear weapons in three weeks."

UPDATE: A New Hint; ‘Not in the Mood to Negotiate’: Trump Heads to the Situation Room

Trump heads to the Situation Room, not in the mood to negotiate amid ongoing tensions with Iran.

townhall.com

5. Is, or isn't, a nuclear Iran a threat to the world?

A nuclear Iran cannot be a threat because Iran would be destroyed if it ever used a nuclear weapon.

A nuclear armed Israel however is -today - a threat to the world, it alone can threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons, I have long expected that Israel will be the first to use a nuclear weapon in the future, the ideology of Jew supremacy and a divine right to seize land anywhere it chooses and exterminate or expel the occupants is precisely the level of insanity that could precipitate a nuclear strike.

If Israel did too, guess what? Nobody would do anything, not the US or UK or EU anyway. They'd do what they always express outrage but do nothing, complain and whine yet take no action.

The perverse neo-Zionist state of Israel is a threat to the human race, the sooner people wake up and accept this the better.

 

[PoliticalChic]

A nuclear Iran cannot be a threat because Iran would be destroyed if it ever used a nuclear weapon.

A nuclear armed Israel however is -today - a threat to the world, it alone can threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons, I have long expected that Israel will be the first to use a nuclear weapon in the future, the ideology of Jew supremacy and a divine right to seize land anywhere it chooses and exterminate or expel the occupants is precisely the level of insanity that could precipitate a nuclear strike.

If Israel did too, guess what? Nobody would do anything, not the US or UK or EU anyway. They'd do what they always express outrage but do nothing, complain and whine yet take no action.

The perverse neo-Zionist state of Israel is a threat to the human race, the sooner people wake up and accept this the better.

"A nuclear Iran cannot be a threat because Iran would be destroyed if it ever used a nuclear weapon."

What an ignorant post.

Clearly you are clueless about that cutlture, the 12th imam, and the desire for global conflagration.


Get back once you have an education.....

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

"A nuclear Iran cannot be a threat because Iran would be destroyed if it ever used a nuclear weapon."

What an ignorant post.

You don't think Iran would be decimated if it ever used a nuclear weapon against Israel? I didn't think that was hard for anyone to understand.

Clearly you are clueless about that cutlture, the 12th imam, and the desire for global conflagration.

This is the culture were over 10,000 Jews live safely today and have Synagogues today where they are not attacked by Zionist thugs? not beaten in the streets for refusing to participate in genocide?

Get back once you have an education.....

Back where? I live here.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Tehran Jewish Committee says Iran Jews live in 'complete security' | The Jerusalem Post

Annual report of Iran’s largest Jewish community outlines budget shortfalls, kashrut efforts, youth programs, and loyalty to Islamic Republic.

www.jpost.com

Here, PoliticalDickhead - here's some education for you.

Islam has had a long relationship with Jews, they revere the Hebrew scriptures and "the people of the book" it was the Germans who systematically exterminated six million Jews, it was Christian, not Muslims.

It was Christian Europe and Russia that had political parties with the word "Antisemitic" in their name, did you know that? It is you who needs to get an education, you know nothing about antisemitism, you just hate Arabs like all deranged neo-Zionist cult members.

Israel needs to tread very carefully, it is aligning itself with American and European fascism, that is how unhinged the neo-Zionists are, actually trying to make friends with cultures that created antisemitism rather than working with their semitic brothers.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Not a Muslim in sight.

Taken from:

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

encyclopedia.yivo.org

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Now PoliticalChic stop posting your evil hateful propaganda in the Science area, post elsewhere.

 

[PoliticalChic]

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Not a Muslim in sight.

Taken from:

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

encyclopedia.yivo.org

Well, you have proven to be as irrational and ignorant as the backward nation you choose to champion.


"Iran: Their foreign policy is aimed at world domination under the leadership of the 12th Imam.

The Hidden Imam, as he is also known by his followers, will only return after a period of cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed – what Christians call the Apocalypse –


“ The hidden Imam who is expected to return....
....beware of doubting, for to doubt the order of God, the Mighty, the Sublime, is apostasy (Kufr). Ibn Khaldun also states that “ When imprisoned with his mother in the house, he entered a sort of well or pit in the house that his family occupies at Samarrah, Iraq, and there he disappeared, but he is to come forth at the end of the age to fill the earth with justice”.
The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (Al-Mahdi-Sahibuz Zaman) (The hidden Imam who is expected to return)
12th Imam
12th Imam



"IRANIAN CLERIC EBAD MOHAMMADTABAR: WHEN THE HIDDEN IMAM ARRIVES, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL CONVERT TO ISLAM OR DIE; WE WILL CONFRONT, DEFEAT THE JEWS, ZIONISM
October 07, 2019
Iranian Cleric Ebad Mohammadtabar: When the Hidden Imam Arrives, The Whole World Will Convert to Islam or Die; We Will Confront, Defeat the Jews, Zionism


The maniacs look forward to a world conflagration.




These are the people that Hussein Obama insisted need be guaranteed a nuclear bomb.

Seems you, the same.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Well, you have proven to be as irrational and ignorant as the backward nation you choose to champion.


"Iran: Their foreign policy is aimed at world domination under the leadership of the 12th Imam.

The Hidden Imam, as he is also known by his followers, will only return after a period of cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed – what Christians call the Apocalypse –


“ The hidden Imam who is expected to return....
....beware of doubting, for to doubt the order of God, the Mighty, the Sublime, is apostasy (Kufr). Ibn Khaldun also states that “ When imprisoned with his mother in the house, he entered a sort of well or pit in the house that his family occupies at Samarrah, Iraq, and there he disappeared, but he is to come forth at the end of the age to fill the earth with justice”.
The Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (Al-Mahdi-Sahibuz Zaman) (The hidden Imam who is expected to return)
12th Imam
12th Imam



"IRANIAN CLERIC EBAD MOHAMMADTABAR: WHEN THE HIDDEN IMAM ARRIVES, THE WHOLE WORLD WILL CONVERT TO ISLAM OR DIE; WE WILL CONFRONT, DEFEAT THE JEWS, ZIONISM
October 07, 2019
Iranian Cleric Ebad Mohammadtabar: When the Hidden Imam Arrives, The Whole World Will Convert to Islam or Die; We Will Confront, Defeat the Jews, Zionism


The maniacs look forward to a world conflagration.




These are the people that Hussein Obama insisted need be guaranteed a nuclear bomb.

Seems you, the same.

How does that differ from Christian or Jewish eschatology? Some Christians expect a time of chaos and violence too, but you don't seem bothered by those, you just hate Persians because they are opposed to Israeli neo-Nazism as you too should be, you're a very silly girl.

 

[justoffal]

A nuclear Iran cannot be a threat because Iran would be destroyed if it ever used a nuclear weapon.

A nuclear armed Israel however is -today - a threat to the world, it alone can threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons, I have long expected that Israel will be the first to use a nuclear weapon in the future, the ideology of Jew supremacy and a divine right to seize land anywhere it chooses and exterminate or expel the occupants is precisely the level of insanity that could precipitate a nuclear strike.

If Israel did too, guess what? Nobody would do anything, not the US or UK or EU anyway. They'd do what they always express outrage but do nothing, complain and whine yet take no action.

The perverse neo-Zionist state of Israel is a threat to the human race, the sooner people wake up and accept this the better.

You are correct about Iran IMO.

Wrong on Israel I think.

Israel will either learn to live with it's neighbors
Or it will cease to exist..

Using nukes will do nothing at all for them except ensure their extinction.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You are correct about Iran IMO.

Wrong on Israel I think.

Israel will either learn to live with it's neighbors
Or it will cease to exist..

Using nukes will do nothing at all for them except ensure their extinction.

As I said the regime is insane, don't expect an insane regime to act sane - look at Hitler.