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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (326909)	2/21/2007 5:55:05 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576890

"I don't really think that you can blame their ability to produce fissile material on the failure to give them light water reactors." I didn't make that claim. "The graphite reactors remained intact and under their control, and could have been started up anytime they NK's wished" Correct. And because of that, why develop the technology to reprocess fuel rods? They would have run a high risk of failure. Much simpler to stick with the other reactors. "Also they had a parallel uranium enrichment program." The big loophole in the agreement. Which should have been fixed instead of essentially chucking the whole thing. Besides, getting the centrifuges to work in large enough cascades to produce weapons grade uranium is a non-trivial task. Given that their test was relatively a dud, it very well may be that their technology just isn't up to snuff.