From what I can tell, there is really no problem with them producing enriched uranium. It is the production of highly enriched uranium that we have to worry about in the short term and the possible production of plutonium from the enriched uranium.

bnelson44 on November 24, 2007 at 3:15 PM

There is a problem. If you can make fuel for a reactor and build one then you can make Pu(239). Pu(239) can then be processed, and turned into a weapon. You do not need HEU(235) to make Pu(239).

So if your neighbor is stockpiling gasoline, and doesn’t own a car, would you worry?

DANEgerus on November 24, 2007 at 5:06 PM

I would go with; If your neighbor is stockpiling fertilizer and doesn’t own a farm, Yes I would worry!!!

Iran: We are making our own nuclear fuel now.
You got a problem with that?

No. But when we toss a lighted match into one of your fuel tanks, we hope you wouldn’t have a problem with that.
See what happens when we dialogue? Right Obama?

The rest of the world will make some noise and do absolutely nothing.

What have they ever done? ZERO, except to arm our enemies.

So if your neighbor is stockpiling gasoline, and doesn’t own a car, would you worry?

DANEgerus on November 24, 2007 at 5:06 PM

Wouldn’t a better analogy be “if your neighbor is stockpiling ammunition, and he doesn’t own a weapon, would you worry?”

Personally, I would be wondering what he was planning on doing with that ammunition.

Iran is 381 years days from making a nuclear bomb.

Fixed that temporal slip.

Relax?

1) It was good target practice
2) it showed all the camel jockey countries surrounding it that it can do what it wants, when it wants to whom it wants before they ever know what hit them.

Therefore mission accomplished.

Iran has no other nuclear reactors.
Iran is not buying any generators or stringing transmission lines past the Russian supplied anti-aircraft installations.

Iran does not have the technical ability to ‘clad’ the nuclear “fuel” they enrich to make it useful as “fuel” in the nuclear plants… they don’t have.

So if your neighbor is stockpiling gasoline, and doesn’t own a car, would you worry?

I wonder what the UN says now?

Zorro on November 24, 2007 at 3:39 PM

Just the other day, they were saying that they had no idea what was going on in Iran.

VIENNA (AFP) — The UN atomic watchdog said Thursday it was in the dark about Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, as its 35-member board seemed divided on how to get Tehran to shed more light on its activities.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “has so far not been able to verify some important aspects of Iran’s nuclear programme,” its director general Mohamed ElBaradei told a board meeting here.

He specifically cited key questions related to the scope and nature of Iran’s centrifuge enrichment activities, “as well as those relevant to alleged studies and other activities that could have military applications”.

As a result, the UN watchdog was “unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities,” ElBaradei complained.

Yet, despite the history of the utter incompetence and corruption of the UN, the policy of the Left and the Democrats is to contain our enemies using the UN. Brilliant.

Relax

corona on November 24, 2007 at 3:29 PM

WHAT THE ISRAELIS BOMBED IN SYRIA: Not a reactor, but something worse?

Doves — virtually all of whom have opposed the Petraeus strategy in Iraq — usually argue that even if Iran is developing nuclear weapons and destabilizing its neighbors, it can be contained and deterred. Maybe. It depends how much the leadership craves martyrdom. But if the mullahs can be contained and deterred, does it not seem likely that the successful resurrection of the Iraqi army — only possible because of the American “surge” — will be an essential part of that strategy?

Also, I find it interesting that when Iran’s government started sabre-rattling about nuclear weapons, the Left and the Democrat Party were all very critical of the Bush Administration, stating that we should have gone after Iran, not Iraq after Afghanistan. However, now that we are thinking of holding Iran accountable, they are all backing down and saying we shouldn’t DARE think of attacking Iran.

Just goes to show that the Left does not take positions on foreign policy on principle, but rather due to partisan politics. Pretty pathetic.

Plus, I bet they never thought that going into Afghanistan and Iraq were setting the stage for pressuring Iran by surrounding it. Ironically, our war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been determined to work as containment without war against Iran. Granted, this didn’t really work, since Iran didn’t act like Libya and get scared by the show of America’s military might. Granted, Libya caved prior to the Democrat Party, the Left and the mass media all giving aid and comfort to our enemies in opposing our war efforts and making sure all our enemies knew they would not allow America to hold them to account.

Since EU is OK with the IAEA, the UN will probably say: “see they are enriching uranium for a reactor and not making highly enriched uranium for a bomb.”

It may be time to try out one or two of those expensive Trident D5′s fitted out with bunker busters…

EVENTS OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT

http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/events.htm