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Posted by WillD on Wed Jul 1 21:27:10 2015, in response to Re: Good news: Iran nuclear deadline extended, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 1 14:34:15 2015. How do you prevent a satellite in orbit from seeing if your reactor is producing power or not? The thermal bloom from a gigawatt sized plant is going to be very noticeable, even through thick clouds. Using a modern reactor, such as the Russian VVER they've built at Bushehr, to produce plutonium is going to require installing a new fuel load, running the reactor for a few weeks, then shutting the reactor down, months before it ordinarily would require refueling. No inspections required. If the plant goes cold 50 some-odd days after it was started back up, they're up to something and we should be allowed to bomb the crap out of the plant.Or we could let them build the Arak reactor, which is purpose-built to produce plutonium while on-line, much like the US B-reactor at Hanford and the Russian RBMK of Chernobyl fame. Either way, we're not going to take military action against Iran, the conservatives in this country would never allow it. So it's not a matter of Iran getting more nuclear reactors, it's a matter of what reactors they'll get. At this point all we can do is call their bluff and insist they build reactors we can easily monitor without having to step foot on the plant floor rather than their own plutonium producer design. |
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