By popular demand, I am telling everyone that ISIS posted the IAEA report: Lots of things causing heartburn, but everyone is pointing to this paragraph noting some HEU particles on some waste containers: 17. The depleted uranium targets which had been irradiated in the course of the plutonium experiments are stored in containers located at …
Heavy Water Plant Not Nuclear Reactor
by | 2006-08-28 | 27 Comments
I was annoyed that most of the major news outlets incorrectly described Iran’s heavy water plant (which cannot make plutonium) as a nuclear “reactor” (which can). I was thinking that an excellent blog post would point out that a heavy water plant separates separates heavy water from regular water by distillation, electrolysis or various chemical …
TCB on The Fleitz of Fancy
by | 2006-08-27 | 4 Comments
I was contemplating a post on the House Select Committee on Intelligence’s extremely odd report, Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States, which Dafna Linzer reports was written by Fred Fleitz Yes, that Fred Fleitz. Anyway, Gary Sick has distributed a for atttribution commentary to the Gulf/2000 listserv that …
Special Fissionable Materials
by | 2006-08-25 | 4 Comments
Only very rarely do I receive e-mail that makes me say: “Wow, that is an obscure question.” Eric Hundman from CDI e-mailed me to ask whether the term “special fissionable materials”—which appears in the NPT—had a specific definition. I dimly recalled something about the Zangger Committee, the 1970s, pet rocks and bell bottoms. I pointed …
