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Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no... by FuriouslyAdrift on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @05:35PM (#44371331)
Overpressure... as the Russians taught to the Afghani's, a small explosion in an enclosed space does massive damage to both soft and hard materials.

You don't have to blow something up to destroy it.

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Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no... by ethbr1 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @04:06PM (#44381346)
Centrifuges and driving equipment, sure.

But U-235 doesn't stop being U-235 because you pressurized or heated it up.

Best case, instead of a pile of enriched uranium, you now have a highly concentrated mine.

Sure, you'd have to separate it again, but getting U-235 away from dirt and rock is a lot easier than separating it from other uranium isotopes.

Even if it was stored as volatile UF6, what, you've converted it to UO2F2 / U3O8?

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Re:Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did no... by FuriouslyAdrift on Thursday June 26, 2025 @04:33PM (#44391027)
They can buy enriched uranium from at least 2 sources...

The expertise and equipment to develop and maintain a nuclear arsenal at scale is vastly more important.

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