Iran's "newly refined" uranium hexafluoride may be Chinese import

Warpy

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Thu May-18-06 07:04 PM
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Iran's "newly refined" uranium hexafluoride may be Chinese import

Edited on Thu May-18-06 07:17 PM by Warpy

The message was simple. Iran's enrichment programme was under way and there would be no going back.

But Iran's technical capabilities may not be quite as advanced as they would have the world believe.

Western diplomatic sources have told the BBC that there is a very strong probability that the uranium hexafluoride gas used in these experiments was not made by the Iranians at all. ]

They say that it may well have come from a small stock of material sold to Iran by China back in 1991.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4995350.stm

Well, not that it matters. Stupid invaded Iraq on less "evidence."

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Deja Q

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Thu May-18-06 07:06 PM
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1. China, eh? Oh boy. Bush is really going to have a field day ahead.

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rzemanfl

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Thu May-18-06 07:08 PM
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2. Did they buy it at Wal-Mart? That's where all the Chinese stuff is.

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Spazito

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Thu May-18-06 07:08 PM
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4. LOL! n/t

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HiFructosePronSyrup

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Thu May-18-06 07:08 PM
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3. I mentioned this a few weeks ago.

Iran had the uranium, but they didn't have a clean source of fluorine. In order to get all that UF6, somebody must have sold them purified fluorine. I suspect China, Russia, or Halliburton.

But I doubt it was as early as 1991. Or they would have had UF6 a long time ago.

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