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Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program

Posted by Unknown on Monday September 23, 2013 @07:02PM from the no-silex-for-you dept.

New submitter I3MOUNTAINS writes "Omid Kokabee, a University of Texas graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than two years, received the American Physical Society's Andrei Sakharov human rights prize for refusing to collaborate on the country's nuclear program. In May, an Iranian court sentenced him to ten years in prison for 'communicating with a hostile government' and receiving 'illegal earnings.' The so-called 'illegal earnings' were the student loans he received while in Texas."

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So, how about... by Radagast · 2013-09-23 19:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

Any prizes for Mordechai Vanunu?

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Re:Questions by drkim · 2013-09-23 19:36 · Score: 5, Funny

The article says he was studying lasers and optics. This makes him an unlikely choice for a nuclear anything program.
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"Iran has been pursuing a kind of uranium enrichment called SILEX which uses carbon dioxide lasers, the same kind of lasers that Kokabee was using in his graduate studies."