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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (13724)2/27/2003 4:30:24 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Enriching the Uranium to near 100% purity is the problem

It's not the purity that is the problem. Bombs require the specific isotope (235). The kind of uranium that Saddam could get from france may be pure, but generally consists of no more than 5% U235 (meaning that Saddam had only about 1.25 kg of the necessary isotope and only if he had a large diffusion plant available). If he tried to add to it from natural sources he would only get about .7% of U235 from 100% pure uranium source. A bomb requires greater than 90% consentration of U235.

TP



To: Hawkmoon who wrote (13724)2/27/2003 8:02:46 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
And Iraq hasn't told where that 25kg of highly enriched uranium (yellow cake enriched to 93% and 80% respectively) which France sold him back in the early 1980's is now, has it?

Now that sounds like a violation of 1441 to me.

Nice post.


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