Trump says he bombed Iran

[cherokeetroy]

The United States ?? of Israel, have a little Star of David ✡️ replacing the stars on your flag, cool

There's a few here who love to toss out the "anti-American", "traitor" labels 

I think this is an excellent way to flush out the real anti-American anti-Constitutionalists

https://x.com/realStockes/status/2060757...17301?s=20

[DBCowboy]

There's a few here who love to toss out the "anti-American", "traitor" labels 

I think this is an excellent way to flush out the real anti-American anti-Constitutionalists

https://x.com/realStockes/status/2060757...17301?s=20

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but for you to consider someone patriotic and Pro-American, you have to hate Trump and the joos?

[cherokeetroy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for you to consider someone patriotic and Pro-American, you have to hate Trump and the joos?

Got one

[DBCowboy]

Got one

at least one

[IDELB2006]

So Trump goes to China, then a few days later Trump pauses an arms delivery to Taiwan. Out of respect for China.

All the while Trump knows China gave Iran the weapons that shot down the f-15.

The F-15 fighter that was shot down over southwestern Iran last month and set off a dangerous rescue mission was probably struck by a Chinese-made shoulder-launched missile, three people with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.
 
In the early days of the conflict, China also may have provided Iran with a long-range early-warning radar that spots stealth aircraft that are meant to evade detection, according to one of the people and a U.S. official with knowledge of the matter.
U.S. officials are still investigating the circumstances around the shootdown of the American F-15E Strike Eagle in April, the sources said. It was the first time in decades that a U.S. fighter was downed by enemy fire.

Trump is more worried about showing China respect than he is about protecting American military.

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[DBCowboy]

So Trump goes to China, then a few days later Trump pauses an arms delivery to Taiwan. Out of respect for China.

All the while Trump knows China gave Iran the weapons that shot down the f-15.

Trump is more worried about showing China respect than he is about protecting American military.

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Maybe Trump is a Chinese spy and never was a Russian spy.

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[govshill2]

So Trump goes to China, then a few days later Trump pauses an arms delivery to Taiwan. Out of respect for China.

All the while Trump knows China gave Iran the weapons that shot down the f-15.

Trump is more worried about showing China respect than he is about protecting American military.

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That must mean The Russian Drone attack on Hungary is a prelude to a full scale attack and invasion of Europe.  But how soon?    The Patterns are set!!            

[EXETER]

Everything that can be done at 20% enrichment, can be done faster, with greater efficiency at 60%. And, I can assure you that there are existing 'non-weapons' configurations that take advantage of that fact. So it's utter nonsense to suggest that there are only 2 other purposes for 60% enriched uranium other than weapons.

I worked on neutron beam research, and in our spare time, we used the reactor to n-dope silicon blanks for chip fab. You seem to have left that fairly common practice entirely off your very short list.

And those 'submarine reactors' are just one of the many uses of smaller more efficient Breeder type reactors.

Fast Breeder Reactors generate more power, with less fuel, and less atomic waste. In fact, they convert 'normally unusable U238' to Pu239 fuel. They can also be smaller and even portable (that's the 'submarine reactor' bit). Fast breeder reactors require HEU primary fuel, usually in the form of MOX, rather than the volatile and highly reactive uranium hexafluoride (which is more useful for gas diffusion enrichment than for storage, or reactors, or producing isotopes etc).

Breeder reactor - Wikipedia

And neither you, nor I, know exactly what tech Iran was using, but I'm sure that all the monitoring agencies, the ones that said they found no evidence of Iran trying to make atomic weapons, had a good idea.

Also, it is far more efficient to store 440 kg of metallic uranium, in 23 liters of small portable containers, than in 127.8 liters of uranium hexafluoride. Considering that all the containers, regardless of the form of the uranium, also have to be significantly shielded.


Israel and the US are attacking them anyway. And the "Five Eyes community" (including US ODCI) is in disagreement with Trump/Israel's current assessment.


An easier task, if the uranium is metallic rather than uranium hexafluoride.


I think that Trump's tearing up of the JCPOA in 2018 and Israel's various bombing runs might have made Iran try to assure the safety of its actinide stocks, well before the latest attack.


Fuel rods are usually long tubes filled with pellets of the ceramic uranium dioxide, or a mix of uranium dioxide and plutonium dioxide (MOX).


A "chan" reaction? Like when someone says something dumb on 4chan and everyone goes wild?



But more seriously, reactions inside a nuclear reactor can be moderated by inserting control rods that block the neutron paths between the fuel rods.

A reactor built to run with less active fuel, with the control rods mostly removed, could easily run on HEU much the same with further inserted control rods. It is entirely dependent upon the specific engineering of the reactor.

Similarly, HEU pellets could be separated from each other by interstitial damping spacers inside the fuel rod such that the total radiation would be similar to an 'LEU pellet only' filled fuel rod.


Yes. Remember those 'submarine' reactors? Small, portable even. Designed to require HEU. And they actually breed fuel.


Unless, of course, they are actually built for it, or the control rods were sufficient, or if they increased the pellet spacing of HEU in the fuel rod.

1) Sure, 60% enriched uranium is more reactive than 20%.  So what? If a nation’s nuclear program is aimed solely at non-weapons, commercial uses, then its decisions will be based simply on what is most cost effective for those uses, and 60% enrichment doesn’t pass that test.  As an example, Iran got into the production of Technetium 99 for medical diagnostics, because the economic sanctions against them prevents them from purchasing it on the open market.  But their entire country needs only about 1000 doses of the stuff per year, which equates to about 1 gram, total.  You don’t invest in the infrastructure to produce a thousand pounds  of 60% enriched uranium to support a commercial need of 1 gram per year.  Canada, as the counterexample is now a major international supplier of Technetium 99, and they have no centrifuge isotope separation program at all.

2) I didn’t discuss using neutron beams from reactors for purposes like n-doping because Iran only has 5 research reactors in the country, and only one of them is designed to use HEU at enrichment over 20%.  Their Miniature Neutron Source Reactor at Isfahan uses 900 grams of HEU of 90% enrichment, which is supplied by China, and not produced locally. So, having 60% enriched uranium is not justified by that purpose.

3) There are two main benefits for using HEU in reactors. The first is that it results in a much smaller reactor core, because the neutrons bouncing around in the core have to travel much shorter paths to encounter another fissile U235 nucleus.  The second is that you get a much higher burnup of the nuclear fuel over time. That’s why the Navy uses them in submarines and aircraft carriers—they don’t take up much space and they don’t have to be refueled for 20 or 30 years at a time.  But, except for one experimental reactor in the 1950s, US Navy reactors are not fast spectrum reactors.
 
Your discussion about breeder reactors is incorrect and irrelevant.  Incorrect because a breeder reactor does not have to be a fast spectrum reactor nor does it have to use enriched uranium to breed plutonium.  The Manhattan Project reactors at Hanford, Washington were the world’s first large scale breeder reactors and were thermal spectrum reactors running on metallic uranium and light water.  Irrelevant because prior to the JCPOA in 2015, Iran was developing the Arak Heavy Water Reactor with Russian help. It was originally designed to use natural uranium and breed plutonium. As part of the 2015 JCPOA agreement, Iran took the original core out of the containment vessel, rendered it unusable, and replaced it with a core that minimized plutonium production.  Iran does not have the technology for a plutonium breeding program in place.

4) It’s not more efficient to store enriched uranium as metal if your ultimate goal is to upgrade from 60% to weapons grade 90%. If the end use of the 60% enriched uranium was for commercial or research applications, then it would probably have been converted to either metal or metal oxides as soon as it got to that level.  If the end goal was to be able to quickly go from 60% to 90%, then it is most efficient to just store it as uranium hexafluoride. Otherwise, you would have to re-process it with fluorine gas before you could put it back in the centrifuges. That's why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists study is significant--it implies that Iran's 60% enrichment level was not for commercial or research purposes.

5) Your comments about modifying an existing reactor designed to run on low enriched fuel to run on high enriched fuel by simply changing fuel rod spacing and changing control rods are naive. You obviously don’t have a complete understanding of  how to design reactors.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

That must mean The Russian Drone attack on Hungary Romania is a prelude to a full scale attack and invasion of Europe.  But how soon?    The Patterns are set!!             

And Russia has replenished their ground invasion force since when?  Didn’t they lose 90% of their tanks? They can do asymmetric crap like Iran only with way scarier warheads. Which could be catastrophic. 
 
Why do we WANT RUSSIA ATTACKING Romania? 

Unless you work for the Kremlin, its kinda weird to be gleefully posting about Putin testing if Article V still matters. 

"Yay, the military alliance that prevented the 3rd world war for 8 decades, is being shown to not matter anymore since USA is pivoting away from those horrible EU countries that let in migrants!"

[DBCowboy]

And Russia has replenished their ground invasion force since when?  Didn’t they lose 90% of their tanks? They can do asymmetric crap like Iran only with way scarier warheads. Which could be catastrophic. 
 
Why do we WANT RUSSIA ATTACKING Romania? 

Unless you work for the Kremlin, its kinda weird to be gleefully posting about Putin testing if Article V still matters. 

"Yay, the military alliance that prevented the 3rd world war for 8 decades, is being shown to not matter anymore since USA is pivoting away from those horrible EU countries that let in migrants!"

The EU should put up or shut up.