There is some uranium in Saudi Arabia, but not much really. And pretty much everyone except Canada and Australia imports uranium, so why worry?mekrob wrote:How large are the reserves of uranium in the Persian Gulf? Or would they be required to import their U?
Or they have figured out that electricity from nuclear is cheaper than electricity from oil and gas, and that they would make more money burning less hydrocarbons needlessly at home and exporting more...Armageddon wrote:either they are running out of oil or are trying to make nukes, or both. I vote for both.
mekrob wrote:How large are the reserves of uranium in the Persian Gulf? Or would they be required to import their U?
Starvid wrote:There is some uranium in Saudi Arabia, but not much really. And pretty much everyone except Canada and Australia imports uranium, so why worry?mekrob wrote:How large are the reserves of uranium in the Persian Gulf? Or would they be required to import their U?
Plantagenet wrote:The Sunni and Shia struggle for dominance in the Moslem world has gone on for 600 years and continues today.
When they only had swords they fought with swords.
When they got guns they used guns.
Now they've got bombs and they are using bombs to massacre the other side.
Soon Iran will have nukes.
Zardoz wrote:Arabs make plans for nuclear powerAs Iran races ahead with an illicit uranium enrichment effort,
RdSnt wrote:Iran is self-sufficient in uranium. It has one of the largest reserves.
Unfortunately it is contaminated with molybdenum. It's one of those teeny-tiny, insignificant details that the media and BushCo. wish to have everyone overlook.
The contamination makes purifying the u-hexafloride to weapons grade exponentially more difficult than it normal is.
It's so difficult that no-one mines uranium that is contaminated, because no one will buy it.Starvid wrote:There is some uranium in Saudi Arabia, but not much really. And pretty much everyone except Canada and Australia imports uranium, so why worry?mekrob wrote:How large are the reserves of uranium in the Persian Gulf? Or would they be required to import their U?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
RdSnt wrote:That at some point they will have the capability to refine to weapons grade levels is a given. Everyone with nuclear technology has that option.
Iran is refining to 3%, and they need to ramp up to thousands of centrifuges to be able to produce practical amounts of reactor fuel.
Weapons grade is 80%+, is exponentially harder to achieve and requires 10's of thousands of centrifuges. Simply to assemble the infrastructure, never mind the expertise and knowledge, is going to take years.
It's simple math and engineering.
That Iran likely wants nuclear weapons I would say is also a given. In their position I would as well.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
And what is the percentage of refinement needed to make a workable dirty bomb?
mekrob wrote:I'm sick of people trying to excuse any violence in the Middle East, Africa, or other 'Third World' countries by implying that it's in their genes
shortonoil wrote:May I ask, who would they use a dirty bomb on? Dirty bombs, in spite of the huge amount of demonetization they have been given by the press to promote the War on Terror, are essentially not very effective in a war scenario; small aerial and ground disbursement and limited lethalness. Definitely not a fighting weapon compared to other alternatives.
The typical "dirty bomb" scenario involves a terror attack within an urban center where civilians work and live.
shortonoil wrote:Plantagenet said:The typical "dirty bomb" scenario involves a terror attack within an urban center where civilians work and live.
I will reiterate, whom would Iran attack with such a weapon.
Cyrus wrote:KevO wrote:billip, this is posted on nearly every thread. what does it all mean?
Billp is Bill Payne. Probably.
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