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Originally Posted by Jebediah
(Sidenote: nuclear power is different since you don't have to launch a plant and they designed not to blow up)
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What the powers that be don't like to discuss. Depleted uranium removed from power plants (and stored in mass quantities at all nuclear power plants) is about equal to uranium used in Hiroshima. It's still bomb grade material.
Uranium used in power plants uses maybe 2% of the fuel inside that material. It is why Yucca Flats is so necessary and why Yucca Flats is so problematic. That 'used' material contains too much energy concentration.
Years ago, if you did not know that Iran was collecting and enriching uranium for bombs, then you also believed the president's lies about WMDs. There was not, for one minute, anyone (in positions of relevance these past years) that did not know this. But saying it would be politically incorrect - albeit the honest answer. So everyone pretended that Iran was claiming they were only building nuclear reactors for energy. The honest answer - Iran was all but saying they wanted and needed to build a bomb.
The unspoken reality that everyone involved knew - Iran needs a nuclear bomb. Their intent was clearly undisputed when Kaddafi blew the whistle on a nuclear proliferation network and its most central figure - Dr Khan of Pakistan. Pakistan being the number one nation proliferating nuclear weapons. So America turned a blind eye - and instead blames N Korea and Iran. The administration hopes you don't learn such realities. Again, we are defining the honesty of our president.
Pakistan being number one is but another fact that the 'powers that be' will not publicly discuss because it is politically incorrect - albeit the honest answer. Iran must build a nuclear bomb. Pakistan is the major supplier of nuclear proliferation. Even used nuclear material from nuclear power plants is sufficiently enriched to make a nuclear bomb. None will be bluntly and honestly admitted by international negotiators - who instead want to be politically correct. You are expected to be sufficiently informed enough to have known these facts.