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Monthly Archives: November 2011
If you look at the commentary on the IAEA’s latest Iran report, you can find pretty much anything you want. It appears that reading the report has been a low priority for both those who want to believe that Iran … Continue reading
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Another Mars rover, Curiosity, was launched on Saturday. It will be powered by a plutonium-238 heat-to-electricity generator. Jim Waymer, in Florida Today, wrote a comprehensive article about the plutonium in that source and its potential shortfall for future NASA missions. … Continue reading
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Juan Cole questions the accuracy of the IAEA report on Iran. “A key allegation in the IAEA report on Iranian nuclear activities has fallen apart,” he says. He bases this claim on an article by Gareth Porter, which supposedly shows … Continue reading
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Today’s International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran paints a clear picture that Iran has been assessing the possibility of building a nuclear weapon. The report contains an annex, more than half its pages, “Possible Military Dimensions to Iran’s Nuclear … Continue reading
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The following was a response to a discussion on the ANS social media list, about the priority that should be afforded to Generation IV designs including LFTR. The argument is one of priorities, and of what is needed for … Continue reading
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The xenon isotopes that result from fission have short half-lives: 9.2 hours for Xe-135 and 5.2 days for Xe-133. So if they show up, as they have at Fukushima reactor 2, that means that fission has been taking place. The … Continue reading
November 2011