Some of you may be regular readers of Managing the Atom’s Iran News—a daily e-mail compilation of news stories related to Iran and the nuclear fuel cycle. We’ve moved the service online, supplemented by a weekly e-mail summary. http://www.managing-the-atom.org/ The site focuses on providing short news summaries and the odd opinion piece. The whole thing …
Thank You James Nagelberg
by | 2006-04-19 | 4 Comments
I received the following note in the mail yesterday, from reader and friend James Nagelberg. The note accompanied a box containing a sweet Y-12 mug (shown at right) packed in crumpled paper. For those of you who don’t know: The Y‑12 National Security Complex is a premier manufacturing facility dedicated to making our nation and …
More Fun With SWU
by | 2006-04-18 | 5 Comments
The other day, I observed that US public statements imply that Iran’s centrifuges operate closer to 2 kg SWU/year than 3. That is a little lower than previous public estimates by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein (The Centrifuge Connection, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 60:2, March/April 2004, 61-66) but within the range generally suggested for …
Collected Thoughts On Iranian LEU
by | 2006-04-15 | 31 Comments
The Jedi-rejects, prancing about with lightsabers, are actually Iranian artistes holding aloft tubes of what purports to be 3.5 percent low enriched uranium (LEU), which Iranian President Ahmadinejad cites as evidence “Iran has joined the nuclear countries of the world” (full text below). A few administrative notes. Paul and I will be blogging at TPM …
