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Pretty sure that many governments around the world have pretty advanced monitoring equipment capable of tracking the movements of nuclear material. Just sayin’
by daft_pink 1y ago
Pretty sure that many governments around the world have pretty advanced monitoring equipment capable of tracking the movements of nuclear material. Just sayin’.
I’m sure they aren’t telegraphing capabilities, but aren’t monitoring devices trained on iran nuclear sites that have been in place for decades.
The intelligence value alone of knowing where materials are going would be so valuable that this has to be in place.
- ceejayoz 1y agoTrump canceled the deal that included monitoring. The Iranians, as you’d expect, disabled those in response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_...
- phreeza 1y agoWhat kind of monitoring are you thinking? Uranium is primarily an alpha emitter, and as such very easy to shield. I don't think it could be tracked from a distance.
- ceejayoz 1y agoWe had cameras and other devices installed under the old nuclear deal. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/iran-removing-27-un-cameras-monitoring-nuclear-activity-possible-fatal-rcna32780 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/iran-remo... > It appeared Iran intended to remove the bulk of the cameras and other monitoring gear installed as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, according to Grossi. Without cameras in place, Iran could divert centrifuges used for uranium enrichment to other unknown locations, he said.
- cameldrv 1y agoMaybe antineutrinos. There has been a fair bit of work on detectors in the past couple of decades.
- perihelions 1y agoThose are for detecting nuclear reactor antineutrinos, to monitor plutonium-producing reactors associated with weapons programs. Not a pile of uranium sitting around doing nothing. e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11434-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11434-z
- IAmGraydon 1y agoI don't think you understand how small 400 kilos of U235 is. It's a cube about 11 inches on each side. That would be very difficult to track, specially in a shielded container.
- 15155 1y agoSurveillance UAVs exist, loiter indefinitely, and Israel has declared air superiority from the beginning.
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