Israel's military warns people to evacuate the area around Iran's Arak heavy water reactor

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Trump says he'll decide whether US will directly attack Iran within 2 weeks

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will decide within two weeks on whether the U.S. military will get directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

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Bombing an operating nuclear reactor has a significant chance of causing a Chernobyl-scale event.

The world was warned that this would have to happen if they allowed Iran to start up the reactor. I guess maybe they should have listened to the warnings.

I confess that I do not know if Arak is currently operating, but I assume that it is.

 

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You don't have to blow up the core to disable it. Just damaging its cooling system may trigger internal fail-safe mechanisms to get it safely shut down.

 

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You don't have to blow up the core to disable it. Just damaging its cooling system may trigger internal fail-safe mechanisms to get it safely shut down.

Bombing the cooling system of an operating reactor = Chernobyl, IMO.

We'll know how bad it is soon enough. Israel just bombed it.

 

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Good news. The reactor was NOT active when it was bombed. No Chernobyl today.