So, like, I have a little rhetorical advice for Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured at left). The IAEA has refused your country’s request for technical cooperation—the TC of the title—to improve safety at the IR-40 heavy water reactor under construction near Arak. I understand that you’re angry and, more importantly, that as Iran’s representative to the …
Two horses + commandos = Russian HEU
by | 2006-11-22 | 6 Comments
The Atlantic Monthly has a long article in the December 2006 issue on How to Get a Nuclear Bomb. [Sorry, it’s subscription only past the first page, so I am putting in some good quotes from later in the article.] It seems at first glance very similar to Jeffrey’s Terror Farm article in Foreign Policy …
Technical Cooperation for Arak
by | 2006-11-22 | No Comments
Manging the Atom Quote of the Day: “A 12-inch hunting knife also could be used to spread jam on your toast in the morning.” Former director of nonproliferation at the State Department Robert J. Einhorn “conceded that the Arak reactor could have peaceful uses, though implausibly so.” Regular readers know that I’ve been somewhat annoyed …
Pu: Still Ages Like Sophia Loren
by | 2006-11-21 | 2 Comments
In January and March 2006, I blogged about stories by James Sterngold inthe San Francisco Chronicle suggesting plutonium, much like Sophia Loren, ages extremely well—remaining quite, um, fissile for at least 60 years. A new study from Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore finds plutonium ages much better than Ms. Loren, remaining viable fissile material for …
