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This has been repeated so many times but the enriched uranium is far more vulnerable in transport.
by votepaunchy 1y ago
This has been repeated so many times but the enriched uranium is far more vulnerable in transport.
- barbazoo 1y ago> The report also found that much of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be put to use for a possible nuclear weapon was moved before the strikes and may have been moved to other secret nuclear sites maintained by Iran. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-nuclear-sites-report https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/iran-strikes-n...
- cwillu 1y agoMost modern goods are valuable and hard to replace because of their mechanical or chemical properties, and so blowing them up destroys the value. My understanding is that U-235 is not like that, blowing it up accomplishes very little when recovery consists of what they'd already be doing to clear the debris, plus some mechanical and chemical separation.