Iran to start work on 20 per cent nuclear fuel

[TomClash]

Source: Financial Times

Iran to start work on 20 per cent nuclear fuel

By By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran and Quentin Peel in Munich

Published: February 7 2010 10:46 | Last updated: February 7 2010 15:29

Iran’s president on Sunday ordered the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation to start enriching uranium at higher grade, in a provocative move which could bring more penalties for the Islamic regime.

Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad did not clarify when exactly the enrichment at 20 per cent from the current 3.5 per cent level would begin or how quickly Iran was capable of doing so. Such a move would bring the country a step closer to producing uranium at 90 per cent purity - the level at which it could be used to make a nuclear weapon.

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This article is not about Sarah Palin.

[endless october]

1. let the Iranian people deal with Iran.

non-interventionism now.

[Pavulon]

2. Sanctions and pressure are a good response.

Iran should back out of the NPT if is is going to build a bomb.

[endless october]

3. sanctions only affect the citizens.

a lot of the citizens like us more than they do the Iranian government.

there are a lot of shitty regimes out there. intervening isn't feasible or productive in many cases.

the best thing we can do is become energy independent and stop buying oil from hostile regimes. this should be among our top national priorities. unfortunately, politicians are more interested in BS like cap and trade, which will do little or nothing to make us energy independent.

[twitomy]

4. If Iran would keep its shit inside Iran, I would agree with you.

But Iran with a nuke is not going to be tolerated by Isreal. So either the world stops Iran, or Isreal will. Simple as that.

[ShortnFiery]

5. If Israel acts, that country should know: It's all alone. eom

[twitomy]

6. If Isreal acts, its because

the international community did nothing to stop Iran; so in-fact they would already be alone.

[endless october]

7. the world can stop Iran by us not buying its oil.

you'd be surprised how many problems we can solve by producing all of our own energy.

we should start working on that.

[YankmeCrankme]

8. You war mongers never cease to amaze me. NT

[ronnie624]

10. A good portion of "the world",

has made it clear that they do not support attacks against Iran. Russia and especially China have made their stance on the issue unequivocal. If Israel/U.S. attack Iran, It will be against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the earth's population.

Of course anyone with any understanding of the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East since the discovery of oil there, understands that the driving motive behind U.S. policies with regard to Iran, is the elimination of a regional deterrent to a U.S. desire to control energy reserves.

[One_Life_To_Give]

9. Does any reactor use such a high grade fuel?

I thought reactors only used 3-5% enriched fuel.

Is there any reason to produce 20% in volume other than as a precursor to being able to make weapons grade?

[Psephos]

11. Light-water reactors (commercial power generation) use approx. 4% enriched fuel

20% is enriched enough to be usable in an atomic weapon, or in specialty military reactors (such as naval propulsion), and is called "weapons-usable."

80% is highly enriched, and is called "weapons-grade."

Iran has no civilian use for weapons-usable fuels. They aren't even bothering to lie about what they're doing anymore.