Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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In the State of the Union Address, President Bush reiterated the claim, and I paraphrase, that 'Iran is enriching nuclear fuel which could be used in a nuclear weapon.'

There is a distinct difference between enriching uranium for use in a nuclear reactor and enriching uranium for use in a nuclear weapon.

Enriching uranium for a nuclear reactor is considered low level enrichment aka LEU.

Enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb is high level enrichment aka HEU.

The two types of enrichment are different and require different degrees of technological ability and facility, including material facility.

The ability to enrich uranium to a high level is vastly more complicated and advanced than low level enrichment. Its not the same as low level enrichment.

It is important to understand the distinction and not blend the two into one entity.

A pdf file on aspects of this topic is available at IEER. Look for the file titled "Uranium Enrichment: (2004) PDF 2MB Just Plain Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power
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4 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

What a bastard!! Its like he's just recycling the whole IRAQ scare project to get us into another war. What won't this demon do? As I said we'll be lucky to make the year without the shit hitting the fan again big time. OBL is still roaming around out here thanks to his pal and political ally Emperor BV$H and if as they say timimg is everything God only know what he has planned for this yr.? He certainly doesn't want to see us turning any corners and electing someone like Obama thats for sure. He wants us in the permanent "war against terra", how else can his and BV$H's goal of turning America into just another 2 bit authoritarian hell -hole happen? Those two are like a hand and a glove they need each other so expect BIG trouble ahead from both.

1:04 PM
Jim Sande said...

Yes, they talked about,'the war on terror' lasting for years and year to come. Permanent war economy is desirable, always has been.

Without an enemy there's no justification for all the war money, that's another reason why the Iraq war was and is so desirable.

Al Qaeda is in reality rather small. Back round 9-11 it was estimated at around 10,000 people. Not even a decent sized town's population. Most of the major captures of their chiefs has been conducted by police outfits, as in Pakistan. That was the purpose of the nuclear bomb threat, the mushroom cloud, it enhances and dramatizes Al Qaeda. It makes it appear as a massive threat, more lethal than communists etc etc. Its great propaganda and they pulled it off without a hitch.

3:58 PM
Glynn Kalara said...

The hapless weaklings the demoweasals just go along with all of it. I'm sick of them. We have no real opposition party in this country.

5:28 PM
Jim Sande said...

Exactly! If they object, then they are weak on defense. That's why the media is so destructive. A stupid nonsense sound bite like 'weak on defense' gets in there and people freak out. I say the media does no service because they conveniently provide no context and no history. So what happens is the sound bite becomes something that people project their very own meaning onto it. They don't know what it means, they add their own meaning.

7:49 PM

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