Still read the article as it has more detailed and nuanced information about nuclear reactors, spent fuel rods, and nuclear reactor oversight. It will quiet the fears instilled by the present neo-conservative calls to war.
McClatchy: Iran begins fueling nuclear reactor — and that's good news
Moreover, under a 2007 accord negotiated by the Bush administration, the spent fuel rods will go back to Russia after they've cooled to prevent Iran from harvesting them for plutonium, the other essential component of nuclear weapons.
"There are 25 tons of fuel rods that would be discharged every year," the White House official said. "You can't pick them up and put them in your pocket."
He and other experts said there's no evidence that Iran has the knowledge, ability or the facility needed to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods, which would first have to sit in water for as many as four years before they're cool enough to handle.
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Ok, so Iran gets the bomb , what will it do with it?
I guess it depends on which degree of crazy they do possess. The enemy is Israel, USA, not sure who else, probably Britain. The target would be Israel and the USA I would imagine. If they bombed Israel, both Israel and the USA would annihilate Iran. They must know this.
Right, exactly! They might be crazy but the ? is how suicidal are they? If for example they fired an EMP weapon ( Electro-magnetic warhead) over us and wiped out our economy how do they think we'd react? They gotta know we'd destroy their country. Countries acquire nukes so they have a deterrence not so they can use them.
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