Doesn't Iran need to be enriching uranium at over 90% to make a bomb instead of 3%?

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Any Nuclear bomb experts in here?

Just looking at the basic information on uranium enrichment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Grades

Wouln't it seem that Iran....(officially confirmed by the IAEA) running uranium reactors at 3% has no means of making a nuclear warhead?

If this is the case....how insanely demented is it that the US and Israel want to bomb this country asap?

just wondering..

mca47

They may be at 3% now, but that doesn't take into the fact that they are working on and obtaining the very means and supplies for larger scale enrichment.
That is why most people/experts say that they are likely still anywhere from 2-5 years away from having the potential for a bomb.

Why the Bush administration is gun-ho on acting tough to Iran now, is unknown to me.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

mca47 wrote:

They may be at 3% now, but that doesn't take into the fact that they are working on and obtaining the very means and supplies for larger scale enrichment.
That is why most people/experts say that they are likely still anywhere from 2-5 years away from having the potential for a bomb.

Why the Bush administration is gun-ho on acting tough to Iran now, is unknown to me.

For plutonium....I imagine uranium is the same:

"It is difficult to produce weapons-grade plutonium with a light water reactor because the reactor must be shut down frequently to replace the nuclear fuel rods, so weapons-grade plutonium is generally produced in small, specialized military reactors. However, a test of a nuclear weapon that used reactor-grade plutonium was successfully detonated, although the yield was relatively low."

My take is that you need to build specialized enrichment facilities to make weapons grade, and that regular power generation at 3% is not going to produce a nuclear weapon.

So basically Iran would have to start building secret and specialized bomb making reactors.

Why didn't Iran just build a specialized weapons grade reactor in private then?

It's not adding up...

DriftingByTheStorm

mca47 wrote:

Why the Bush administration is gun-ho on acting tough to Iran now, is unknown to me.

Dollar Supremecy is at stake.

Also the war economy needs a boost.

although, honestly, at this point, it is a bit of a self defeating strategy.
"funding" the war economy is inflation,
and inflation is destroying the dollar.

so,
destroying the dollar to save the dollar?

i guess we could gain their market share of oil.
that would definately help!