Word: uraniumã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Iran possesses the knowledge and capability to enrich enough uranium to make one or two bombs a year, and it already has 2,200 pounds of low-enriched uranium??enough for one bomb upon further enrichment. The international community lacks sufficient oversight to be sure the Iranians are not operating a covert weapons program at this very moment and has no assurances that they will not resume their official weapons program at any time...
...used directly for weapons, fissile material is, to some extent, fungible. As Henry Sokolski, the director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, said, “We are going to be sending, or allowing others to send, fresh fuel to India—including yellowcake and lightly-enriched uranium??that will free up Indian domestic sources of fuel to be solely dedicated to making many more bombs than they would otherwise be able to make...
...fossil fuels: Iran is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s second largest oil producer (it holds ten percent of the world’s proven oil reserves) and the world’s second largest natural gas reserve. Yet Iran has extremely limited deposits of uranium??producing energy via nuclear means makes far less financial sense than producing it by conventional means...
...Iraq had amassed roughly 200 tons of natural uranium??often called “yellowcake” and used in making plutonium—and its delegations had been touring nuclear facilities in several European countries, including Sweden, France, Italy and West Germany. Amazingly, certain Italian officials were also training Iraqi scientists in the use of plutonium-separation technology. In addition, Hussein had threatened to cut off oil exports to Portugal unless its government furnished Iraq with uranium...
| 1 |