Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by ruined on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:38PM
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AP quoting Iranian officials reports no radiological contamination, which suggests the facilities weren't penetrated https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-war-updates#00000197-95a...
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Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by tptacek on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:44PM
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You wouldn't expect significant radiological contamination from bombing an HEU facility deep underground? This isn't like exposed reactor core material.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by siltcakes on Saturday June 21, 2025 @11:46PM
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This bombing was for show. The US did not use the required munitions to destroy these targets. Not even close.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by sebmellen on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:18AM
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12 of those bunker busters in succession? High chance the facilities really were destroyed.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by margalabargala on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:16AM
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They dropped 12 of the GBU-57s. What would you recommend?
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by firesteelrain on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:31AM
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There are limited ways to destroy Fordow. US is only country to possess them
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by cryptonector on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:36AM
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They do have reactors though, do they not? Hitting the spent fuel pools and/or the reactors would produce detectable radioactive contamination. The HEU? Not so much as its half-life is 700 million years, and the stuff is dense and will quickly settle down.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by adastra22 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:31AM
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Why would they have reactors? This is uranium enrichment, not plutonium production.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by cryptonector on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:03PM
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Why would they not have reactors? Plutonium bombs are more efficient than uranium bombs, so of course they should want to make some plutonium. Remember, they claim they need HEU for civilian reactors.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by adastra22 on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:38AM
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Plutonium bombs are massively more complex than a U-235 design.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by cryptonector on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:36PM
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For sure, but a) they have a civilian reactor program, which surely produces spent fuel, and if they run it with HEU then they probably have breeders, and they might think they can figure out how to make Pu bombs. After all, the W88 bomb design got leaked in the 90s, remember?
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by jandrewrogers on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:49AM
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That does not follow. It is not like it is an active reactor. There is no reason there should be significant radiological contamination.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by simonh on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:03AM
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The facility enriches Uranium hexafluoride gas.
Re:Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on...
by cryptonector on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:37AM
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With a half-life between 700 million years (for U-235) and 4 billion years (for U-238). And it's dense stuff that will immediately settle on the ground. You're not going to detect it from afar.