Comments on: How Do You Fuel an Iranian Reactor? (Updated)

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:17:40 +0000

With a I.C.B.M. fuel rod?

By: Richard Gardner

Richard Gardner — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:06:48 +0000

Deja vue all over again. We had the same discussion here in 2006 where I thought it was racist to say the Iranians couldn't build a bomb in ten years when white Americans could do it in 3 years 70 years earlier. I have no doubt that Iran needs more energy. I think they need refineries and nuclear power plants. However their nuclear research is 99% in the direction of bombs, not power (OK, could be 98% - my point being that their emphasis is highly enriched Uranium and Plutonium which isn't needed in a power plant).

By: Andre Kenji

Andre Kenji — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:40:47 +0000

They are doing this precisely for the same reason that Brazil and Argentina produced their Nuclear Programs: nationalist reasons.

By: tom p

tom p — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:43:54 +0000

sometimes... my english goes to hell (and it is my first language).

As a charter member of the "axis of evil" they seen what happened to the other 2

should have read, "they have seen" and

for the plain and simple reason that the Mullahs don't them.

"that the Mullahs don't ignore them." Hope you all enjoyed my flubs twice as much as I did...

By: mike

mike — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:30:39 +0000

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran... We all know why they want uranium - the question is what to do about it. If no one else does it, you know Israel will.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:30:38 +0000

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran... We all know why they want uranium - the question is what to do about it. If no one else does it, you know Israel will.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:25:27 +0000

If you do not read the Army War College stuff regularly let me recommend the following from the Autumn Parameters.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/08autumn/elhefnawy.htm

In it Nader Elhefnawy makes the case that nuclear power will eventually be needed everywhere. Even Light Water Reactors can, theoretically, be used to generate weapons grade material. I have some doubts, but at the very least, it makes dirty bombs possible.

Steve

By: tom p

tom p — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:49:51 +0000

A question: How old is their program? (I posted over at GE that the link for the report wasn't working)

There are other factors that we’re not aware of.

Well here's one: As a charter member of the "axis of evil" they seen what happened to the other 2: Iraq who didn't have them, and what has happened to N. Korea who may or may not. (NK flubbed their one test) Obviously the NK situation is a lot more complicated than just the "nuclear" factor but the parrallels should not be ignored, for the plain and simple reason that the Mullahs don't them.