Visualizing What Iran's 'Missing' Uranium Would Look Like

[Lord Tammerlain]

Where I live there's one gas station, about 60 miles of pavement and maybe 360 miles of logging roads. I always carry a jerry can but haven't needed it yet.
Hard to carry a bucket of volts though. Could a portable generator charge a vehicle battery, even if it takes awhile? Not full charge, just enough to get home.

It can, they can charge with 120 V but very slowly

240 v dramatically reduces charge time, 480 V even more.

Heck flat towing can charge an ev

 

[Girlpower]

Then he left the G7 summit early.

If you couldn’t read the writing on the wall, it’s because you wanted to be blind and ignore it.

Iran read it - and then we have satellite images of a parade of trucks leaving a nuclear site

Cool, are they going to build a bomb somewhere else now?

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

We did find mass stockpiles of gas in Iraq, which, according to the UN, are WMD's.

We came across whole piles of artillery shells with Sarin gas in them so I don't know what you are talking about.

You mean old rusted shells forgotten about from the Iran Iraq war, that if fired would be more of a risk to the artillery crew than anyone else:

Trust me, I looked into all the moronic claims of Iraq wmd possession and they were all bogus.

Heck one claim was a soap making facility was making wmd

 

[BirdinHand]

Cool, are they going to build a bomb somewhere else now?

Where is the uranium? How much damage to their nuclear facilities did we actually do? What was/wasn’t destroyed?

More, on the next episode of “as this shit show turns”

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

You should probably tell that to Newsweek, who believes they have enough material for 10 nuclear weapons.

No that is true, the amount of uranium if enriched to 90% could be used to make 10 nuclear weapons:

Issue being Iran did not have any uranium enriched to 90%

 

[Girlpower]

Where is the uranium? How much damage to their nuclear facilities did we actually do? What was/wasn’t destroyed?

More, on the next episode of “as this shit show turns”

Who knows.

We obviously put a dent in it though.

Anyone eating 15,000 pound bombs is gonna get a little hurt lol.

 

[Michael Cole]

It's hilarious how the left claims that Iran never wanted to build a nuclear weapon.

No, that was Trump's DNI.

You must have leftitis.

If they never wanted to then why do they have any enriched uranium at all?

Seriously, do they think that Iran just decided to start enriching it because Trump ended a deal that said they couldn't enrich it?

It's beyond laughable.

 

[Grand Mal]

Cool, are they going to build a bomb somewhere else now?

If they didn't know it was coming they wouldn't be able to, would they.
Those trucks? There's only two things that could have brought them there- incompetence or duplicity.
Look up 'Peenemunde'. WW2, the British bombed the facility where the Germans did their rocket tech and heavy-water research. Werner Von Braun was there at the time.
If the British had telegraphed that attack and the Germans had evacuated the facility, history might have unfolded differently.
Like history might unfold different now because Iran had notice the attack was coming and got their equipment out. But at least Trump got to look all grim and threatening on social media

 

[Noodlegawd]

No that is true, the amount of uranium if enriched to 90% could be used to make 10 nuclear weapons:

Issue being Iran did not have any uranium enriched to 90%

They said it was enriched to 60%, which is a step away from 90%, and I'm pretty sure not necessary for any legitimate use other than getting to weapons-grade.

 

[Girlpower]

If they didn't know it was coming they wouldn't be able to, would they.
Those trucks? There's only two things that could have brought them there- incompetence or duplicity.
Look up 'Peenemunde'. WW2, the British bombed the facility where the Germans did their rocket tech and heavy-water research. Werner Von Braun was there at the time.
If the British had telegraphed that attack and the Germans had evacuated the facility, history might have unfolded differently.
Like history might unfold different now because Iran had notice the attack was coming and got their equipment out. But at least Trump got to look all grim and threatening on social media

Germany didn't invest in Heavy Water research which is why they invaded Norway to get theirs.

 

[Tettsuo]

5 foot 6 inche bed plus or minus a couple inches
Quite smooth and quite riding but range is limited to approximately 250 miles without towing. My 2015 f150 has 700 miles of range, but is not as quite or smooth riding

I'm surprised the range is so low. The Rivian has over 400 miles of range.

I've been big on EVs since I got my 2015 e-Golf to commute to work. Terrible range, but fantastic in every other metric. I can't imagine owning any other ICE car again. I've been interested in the Lightning as an alternative to the Rivian, but it's looking like the Rivian may just be a better vehicle.

 

[Tettsuo]

Looks good. That long cab cuts down on the box length though, doesn't it? I've got an '04 cab-and-a-half, with the fold-up seat in the back.
Lightning's electric, isn't it? I've been dithering on that subject but I'd need to hit the lottery to buy new. I refuse to take out a loan for anything- the value of my vehicles goes up and down according to how much gas is in the tank.

Yeah, the Lightning is a full EV pickup.

 

[ElChupacabra]

So why did Obama insist they needed inspectors to watch over them then?

Because agreements work when there are compliance steps to ensure they're being met. I'm sure whatever negotiated deal that will eventually get sorted out with Iran will be something similar.

Was he racist?

Nope. It had nothing to do with race.

 

[Grand Mal]

Germany didn't invest in Heavy Water research which is why they invaded Norway to get theirs.

Fine.
Got anything to say about the subject of the post you quoted?

 

[What if...?]

I'm reminded of Dave Chappelle's yellow cake gag

“Don’t drop that sh**!”

 

[vanceen]

Visualizing Iran's 'missing' uranium: Everything we know

Nuclear experts believe Iran relocated more than 400 kg of highly enriched uranium—enough for 10 nuclear weapons—to a secret location. Here's what that would look like.

www.newsweek.com

Where is Iran's highly enriched uranium? Enough for 10 nuclear weapons is not accounted for by anyone.

Trucks lined up and waiting for their cargo at Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Fordow on June 19 before the US bombing.....

If the Iranian uranium is really 60% enriched, as reported, it would make zero bombs. 90% enrichment is required.

 

[vanceen]

No that is true, the amount of uranium if enriched to 90% could be used to make 10 nuclear weapons:

Issue being Iran did not have any uranium enriched to 90%

Worth bearing in mind that there is no "non-bomb" reason to enrich uranium beyond 3.5%. Enrichment to 60% would be expensive and difficult, and would have no purpose apart from weapons (90% enrichment).

 

[vanceen]

Germany didn't invest in Heavy Water research which is why they invaded Norway to get theirs.

Sort of. They were convinced that deuterium oxide (heavy water) was essential as a moderator in making a reactor, which was necessary to study the reactivity profile of uranium to allow for bomb construction. So they did carry out work with heavy water in Germany. They just didn't make it there.

Allied scientists figured out that graphite, which the Germans concluded was unsuitable, worked fine if it was pure enough.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

Worth bearing in mind that there is no "non-bomb" reason to enrich uranium beyond 3.5%. Enrichment to 60% would be expensive and difficult, and would have no purpose apart from weapons (90% enrichment).

60% uranium is used to produce medical isotopes

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

I'm surprised the range is so low. The Rivian has over 400 miles of range.

I've been big on EVs since I got my 2015 e-Golf to commute to work. Terrible range, but fantastic in every other metric. I can't imagine owning any other ICE car again. I've been interested in the Lightning as an alternative to the Rivian, but it's looking like the Rivian may just be a better vehicle.

The lightning batteries are an older design, and the platform is just a modified f150.

The rivian is a clean sheet ev design from the ground up

 

[uptower]

“Don’t drop that sh**!”

Pray to God you don't drop that s***...

 

[Metric Mouse]

Off topic... what do you think of the Lightning?

I saw one in person recently. Good looking truck. Owner said he loves it, great storage, great power, super fast, and charges easy at home.

Towing kills the range they said, but as a second commuter vehicle for hauling kids and groceries and moving the occasional boat or camper around, it sounds geat.

 

[Metric Mouse]

Not sure what the process involves but I keep reading references to 'centrifuges'. I guess the idea is to get set up again elsewhere.

Centerfuges are the very specific, specially designed, carefully calibrated, delicate, expensive machines that separate the uranium 235 molecules from the uranium 238 molecules - they can literally be wrecked by turning them on just slightly wrong or spinning them a little too fast; and all they do is spin.

Also no one will sell more to Iran, so wrecking a few by moving them or bombing them or sabotaging them will hobble their enrichment program- ala the Stuxnet attack.

Likely Isreal and the US are tracking where these are moved to, for future attacks.

 

[Tettsuo]

I saw one in person recently. Good looking truck. Owner said he loves it, great storage, great power, super fast, and charges easy at home.

Towing kills the range they said, but as a second commuter vehicle for hauling kids and groceries and moving the occasional boat or camper around, it sounds geat.

EVs really are great for in-town stuff. Plus, we have the added bonus of low maintenance and low cost to refuel. Just plug it in at night and pay next to nothing to recharge for the morning. If we have to do any long trips, it's the wife's ICE car.

 

[vanceen]

60% uranium is used to produce medical isotopes

That's obviously why they made twenty tonnes of it.

EDIT: If so, there is indeed a non-bomb application, I'll grant you.