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To: combjelly who wrote (305722)	10/9/2006 2:05:02 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574364

There are two ways to obtain fissile material. One is enriching uranium through gas diffusion cetrifuges in cetrifuge farms. It takes years, a huge investment in infrastructure and a LOT of yellowcake. It's how we made the material for our first bomb. en.wikipedia.org Once you have nuclear reactors, you can use the already highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel to start from. Under the Clinton plan, we had the UN making sure this didn't occur. They were monitoring the spent fuel in the storage ponds. The Koreans were "cheating", sort of, by enrighing uranium by the first method. But it would have been many years beyond now before they had a bomb. The Koreans never agreed to not enrich uranium - they promised not to reprocess nuclear fuel - which ending with the Bushies. You can thank the Bushies for the amazing "progress" of the N. Koreans..