Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Iran’s little problem

I have figured out a way to solve Iran’s little problem with the Moly in their UF4. It isn’t all that efficient, but it scales up easily, and technologically it is about as hard as oil refining. So, if cost is no object, any country could have ultra pure U 235/238 for enrichment. I haven’t been able to find anything on the net about purifying uranium tetrafluoride this way, so either it is classified or hasn’t been done (or I didn't look hard enough.) On the off chance I have discovered something new I won’t go into detail, but I checked the tables and there is no chemical or physical reason it wouldn’t work. (It might not be all that safe, but really who’s counting?) The nice thing is I haven't given anything away, since this is wayyyyy out of the box thinking.

I would wish Iran luck in finding a solution, but even if it is the nice thing to say, I don’t mean it. So, instead I say I hope they unbalance their centrifuges, or at least deeply score the bearings and ruin the spindles. If anyone wants to know how it works, well tough, I’m not telling. It is one thing to say it can be done by a method that is novel; it is another to help hostile nations, ruled my mad men, develop nuclear technology. Just ask Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

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