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Attack on Iran

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Ok. He'll be back under another guise I imagine.
Why? Assumption is the mother of all mess ups. I do not need to hide under any other alias. I can stand my own against any trolls

Spoooony is goooone, Karl.



We cracked the shits with him after assorted misdemeanours...

That is not true Babarian. Shame on you mate.

Just kidding Barbarella *wink *wink
 
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Anyways back to the task at hand.

Building nuclear plants these days is just a excuse to build nuclear weapons as they are not economical. The US build their last about 30 years ago and has received more than $77 billion dollars in federal subsidies. A estimated 60 percent of the total federal energy research and development funding between 1948 and 1998.

Over the same 50 years, $26 billion in Research & Development expenditures, or 23 percent, went to oil, coal, and natural gas; $12 billion, or 11 percent, to renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro, geothermal, and solar power; and $8 billion, or 7 percent, to energy efficiency.

Then add to 35 years of trying to cool the waste then the dumping to it and you got to wonder why some countries say it is cheaper. Cheaper yes to build a fission-fusion-fission bomb of a 100 Megatons from the depleted uranium you are left with.

To give you some insight 1 to 3 kilograms of plutonium can give you a simple fission bomb of 25 kilotons. One nuclear plant produce about 200kg's of it a year. There is no way to see if someone is using it to make a bomb because when the inspector turns his back I remove the fuel rods and get my depleted uranium.

For a good explanation what uranium is I quote the explanations from this article The Secret Life of the Atom

Most people know that energy is released when uranium atoms are split. But what many do not know is that hundreds of fiercely radioactive substances are created at the same time. These are the fragments of broken uranium atoms – the fission products – and they are millions of times more radioactive than the uranium from which they come. They make up the radioactive fallout that poisons the earth after a nuclear explosion. They are the radioactive waste materials that make irradiated fuel dangerous for millions of years. They are the residual heat generators that can melt the core of an
uncooled nuclear reactor and send clouds of radioactivity over vast regions. Knowing how these materials are created and how they behave helps us comprehend the nature of the problem, and
empowers us to act against the root cause. Nuclear fission is by no means a clean technology.

Uranium is the basic element from which nuclear explosives and reactor fuel are made. The nucleus of the uranium atom can be split to release energy in a self-sustaining reaction. Uranium for Bombs can be highly enriched (the Hiroshima bomb) or transformed into plutonium (the Nagasaki bomb). Most power reactors require some enrichment for their fuel. Uranium can also be used in its natural, unenriched state to fuel reactors like the Canadian CANDU reactor.

When uranium is dug out of the ground, it is a blend of uranium-235 (less than 1 percent) and uranium-238 (more than 99 percent). U-235 is the kind of uranium that fissions and releases energy, so to make bombs or reactor fuel, the concentration of U-235 has to be increased or “enriched”. This is done by removing much of the U-238. The left-over U-238 is called “depleted uranium” (DU). It has no significant civilian uses, but it does have several military uses.

Now when you look at the Nagasaki bomb that was dropped in 1945 you will see that it was a simple plutonium bomb of about 10 000 kilotons where over 35,000 and 40,000 people were killed thousands left to carry the scars and after effects.

To put that into context todays nuclear bombs are a 3 stage weapon (fission-fusion-fission). To trigger it is a small black ball which is the similar to the plutonium bomb used in Nagasaki. That is the first stage and its called fission. Thank God back then they used a fission bomb. Now thanks to nuclear fission the energy released split the atoms of plutonium. Tritium is often added to the centre of the plutonium core to aid the fission explosion so that a 100 million degrees temperature can be reached to start the chain reaction.

Second stage involves concentrated deuterium and tritium and lithium deuteride in the center column which reacts. deuterium and tritium are both heavy isotopes of hydrogen and that is the "H" part of the bomb. When the Hydrogen mix is heated at 100 million degrees it fuses the deuterium and tritium atoms together which releases a massive amount of energy.

The fusion reaction is so powerfull it can split fission atoms of uranium-238 aka depleted uranium. This stage doubles the power of it and this is where all the fall out comes from. To give you a simple example the Russians tested a bomb but without this stage and they recorded a 50 Megaton explosion the highest ever in the world. Now that bomb with the third stage added are designed to hit 100 Megatons! Nagasaki was about 10 to 20 000 kilotons.

H-bomb has no practical limit. You can make it as powerful as you want just by adding more deuterium/tritium to the second stage. 100 Megatons, 200 Megatons or how big you want it.

Now will you believe a country trying to use a non economical way to produce power which cost 3x more than other power generation methods where they say its for a peaceful and cheap way to produce power? With the enrichment they separate the U-235 and are left with depleted uranium which is used for nothing else but to make Nuclear weapons.

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This glass ball is the exact size of the plutonium core in
the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

That same country who supply Terrorist groups with weapons to attack Israel. Now all they can do is hand them a Nuclear bomb and ask them to bomb Israel and deny everything saying it was this group or this group. They are already supplying them with weapons what would stop them doing that? We are talking about 3kg of plutonium to make a Nagasaki bomb. 1 Nuclear plant produce about 200kg of it in a year and that is one using it in a slow process and not like in Iran where everything is on a military schedule.

If they want to make use of nuclear power why not buy uranuim from Canada or Russia like Argentina and a lot of the other countries do?

This is a very good article about the Nuclear Industry and the Myth of the Peaceful Atom
Slugs of depleted uranium could be used in a CANDU reactor for the same purpose. By inserting depleted uranium into a few selected fuel channels when no inspector is around, and then removing them again using the CANDU system of on-line refueling -- a large stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium could be accumulated without fear of detection.

In fact, this trick has already been attempted in a different context, and there is a Canadian connection to the story. When Israeli jets leveled Iraq's OSIRAK reactor near Baghdad in 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin justified his action on the grounds that the Iraqis were intending to produce plutonium for bombs by a method similar to the one just described. This allegation was supported by an IAEA inspector, who had resigned his job in order to provide public testimony to that effect.

Just about a year before the Israeli bombing raid, Eldorado Nuclear Limited was engaged in a bizarre transaction set up by the West Germans. After chemically refining some depleted uranium from Britain, Eldorado sent the material to a firm in the U.S. to be fabricated into metal rods and then returned to Port Hope, Ontario. American officials became extremely curious and began asking questions. What on earth did Eldorado want with depleted uranium? It soon emerged that the ultimate destination fro the material was Iraq. The deal was hastily squelched.

That is why they don't want to import it because it can be tracked just like Iraq was years back.
 
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