The Problem With Uranium

[TheMaroon]

*PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT CONDONING IRAN OR ANY MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY, I AM SIMPLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY WANT TO ENRICH URANIUM RIGHT AFTER AN OCCUPATION*

Recently the Islamic Republic of Iran has been fighting for it's right to enrich uranium so that they can open Nuclear Reactors for providing their people with clean energy. But this concerns fellow nations, as the only use for enriching uranium is to weaponize it. You do not need to enrich uranium in order to use it for nuclear power. So the way I see it is that if Iran wishes to enrich Uranium, they should do it under the supervision of a representative of the U.N. I see it like the felony regulations in America and Canada. If you have committed a major felony you are not able to own a fire arm. I know that the majority of the problems in the middle east did not originate from Iran, but there were still a few occurrences. Therefore there should be a cool down period before they are trusted to independently enrich uranium. I am not saying they should never be able to do that, but there should be a length of time before they are allowed to. Some people may think that if they are weaponizing they are only going to really use it on Israel and Jordan, but the reality is, they don't need nuclear weapons to eradicate the Israeli nation, they're just right next store, Israel could be gone in a week if they did it right. Nuclear weapons are more often than not intended to be a long arm for a military. So the only way to be absolutely sure is to have the UN or a third party be in charge of inspecting the nuclear power process in the Islamic Republic of Iran. I say these only in warning and possibility, I do hope that they can use nuclear energy soon, it will be a blessing for them.

Hope to hear the criticism soon

Sincerely, with good intention
TheMaroon

[Q]

First off: Of course you need enriched uranium in order to use it in power plants. Natural uranium has too few uranium-235 isotopes (less than 1%) to work. So, you need to enrich the 235 isotopes to something like 5% for that to work. Weapons grade uranium is then enriched to 90% or more uranium-235. More info on Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power). The Iranian regime furthermore is not inching towards nuclear weapons, but seems to head for nuclear capability. This is not just a semantical difference as in the latter case Iran has no nuclear weapons, just the capability to produce them in a relatively short timespan, should it be needed. Of course, for the imperialist order this is already going way too far.

A call for the UN to supervise the Iranian nuclear programme would be a very bad idea. The UN is not a neutral instrument after all, but an instrument of the world's imperialists. I think the position of HOPI (http://hopoi.org/?page_id=574) (Hands Off the People of Iran) makes most sense here: No to imperialist intervention, no to the theocratic regime. Most often this (and similar) discussion(s) is framed in the same wrong dichotomy: Either you're siding with the regime (the "anti-imperialists") or you're defending imperialist intervention (groups like the AWL). Even on the left it seems not common sensical to actually stand on the position of the independent interests of the working class, both (in this case) in Iran and globally.

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I say: give everyone fully operational breeder reactors!!!:laugh:

We will have more fissile material in the end!:grin: (and less pollution and more power!!)

And besides, we can recycle nuclear waste, so the more nuclear reactors the better, for everyone!

[ckaihatsu]

Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes


Thorium-based nuclear power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power