Images Show Iran Heavy-Water Plant Nearly Done-ISIS

VIENNA (Reuters) - New satellite images show a heavy water plant in Iran, intended to supply a research reactor that could eventually produce plutonium for one atomic bomb a year, is nearly complete, a U.S. think-tank said on Friday.

The photos of the plant in Arak, 150 miles south of Tehran, were taken in February by the U.S. commercial satellite firms DigitalGlobe and Space Imaging and provided to Reuters by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a U.S. think-tank.

"Adjacent to the reactor construction site (in Arak) is the heavy water production plant, which is almost completed and is anticipated to supply the necessary heavy water for the heavy water reactor," ISIS said in an analysis of the imagery.

While there is nothing illegal about the plant, the news that it is nearly done will likely deepen U.S. suspicions that Iran wants heavy-water technology to get plutonium for bombs.

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Or maybe the Iraqi ones? Who knows? When it's Digital Globe and ISIS, nobody knows!

...of Iraqi troops massing along the Saudi border. Next thing we'll hear is tearful testimony of Ayatollahs tossing Iraqi babies out of incubators -- or, worse, Iranian plans to build rubber-band-driven balsa-wood-and-bubble-gum model airplanes that will fly under radar into the United States to spread anthrax over Kansas!!

...ponder what the next move will be.

...allow the US to spend the next 20 years cleaning up the mess.

Here's what I propose...if Israel starts a was with Iran, they can also have the responsibility for finishing it.

When are they going to show us the pictures of all of the missiles pointed toward the US, and all of the mobile biochem labs? How about a few pictures of babies being taken out of incubators?

If I were Iran faced with a massive threatening presence occupying the neighboring country, I would develop whatever weapons I could, as quickly as possible.

the world believed him.

Today when the bush gang hold up photos -- few sane people believe him.

God . . . how far the US has slipped down the toilet in a few decades.

the Noweigians!

When they aren't too busy throwing babies out of incubators, and playing bayonet catch with nuns.