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Nuclear Fuel How-To
ATMosby writes "The BBC has an article that pretty much sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons." From the article: "Uranium is the basic raw material of both civilian and military nuclear programmes. It is extracted from either open-cast pits or by underground mining. Although uranium occurs naturally all over the world, only a small fraction is found in concentrated ores. When certain atoms of uranium are split in a chain reaction, energy is released. This process is called nuclear fission."
Your disgusting.
His disgusting what?
Grow up and get some respect.
Um...I think you meant to say show some respect...
If you have a problem with this country save up and by a one-way ticket to somewhere else.
No. I think I'll stay here in MY country and work for change. I'm sure you and the rest of your neo-conservative fascist mouth-breathing ilk would love it if people with ideologies slightly different from yours just ran away, but sorry...we're not going to make it that easy for you.
To sum up, you are a moron.
Log off before you hurt yourself.
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And only in America are there those that believe that Saddam's government didn't have the refining capabilities to work with the uranium. At the very least, he was persuing the material to experiment with, with the full intention of proceding towards modern weaponry.
Lest we forget, his government was 90% of the way to completing a French-built nuclear reactor (before it was severely damaged in 1981). The French abandoned the project in 1984; Iraq rebuilt the plant without outside assistance in 1988. After invading Kuwait, in late 1990 Iraq began converting the plant to produce weapons grade plutonium. The plant was leveled by Desert Storm air attacks in Feb 1991.
It is idiotic to believe that Iraq technology remained static for 10 years, and it is rather naive to believe that with that length of time to aquire material with the illbegotten oil-for-food revenue, that he didn't already have the equipment within his country to refine whatever uranium he was able to import. But this is America, where we allow people to believe whatever they want to believe...