Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no...
by votepaunchy on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @05:07PM
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This has been repeated so many times but the enriched uranium is far more vulnerable in transport.
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Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no...
by barbazoo on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @06:55PM
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> The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-n...
Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no...
by cwillu on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:37AM
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Most modern goods are valuable and hard to replace because of their mechanical or chemical properties, and so blowing them up destroys the value.
My understanding is that U-235 is not like that, blowing it up accomplishes very little when recovery consists of what they'd already be doing to clear the debris, plus some mechanical and chemical separation.