Iranian officials announced the installation of a series of improved IR-6 uranium centrifuges, which are estimated to be 10 times as efficient as the IR-1 centrifuges that were really in place. This led to a lot of bad math and panicky reporting in media outlets about Iran’s uranium enrichment.
At the core of this was a quote from Iranian officials that they can process roughly 5 kg per day now. That is to say, they can insert 5 kg of unenriched uranium into the machines and turn it into the smaller amount of low-enriched uranium.
But because this is Iran, and uranium, the media quickly extrapolated this into Iran producing 5 kg of enriched uranium per day. They claimed that the level reported two months ago was 450 g, and Iran’s claim of 10 times efficiency and some rounding got them sold on this 5 kg idea.
In reality, enrichment means that only a small fraction of the unenriched uranium input can be output at a higher level. Without knowing the exact nature of Iran’s yellowcake uranium, these calculations are not readily available for figuring out exact production, but taking Iran’s word for it that they are inputting 5 kg per day, their output is almost certainly closer to the 450 g output from months ago than it is to the 5 kg output the press is reporting.
Easy fix. The US recognizes the JCPOA and abides by it.
Not so “easy”:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-islamic-law-strict-severe-inhuman-punishment
Ok so Iran is equally as brutal as many of our allies…..whats that got to do with JCPOA or “ease” of re-entering it?
Iran is fomenting chaos in
Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Red Sea commerce and
Saudi Arabian refineries.
The JCPOA is a charade.
As opposed to US fomenting terrorism all through the middle East. Rules for thee but not for me…
Pleez, crushing a manically-homicidal ISIS uprising who planned, executed, and inspired terror attacks against the US and allies
is self-defense.
Aligning yourself in support of ISIS and Iran, says it all.
God, you are an idiot.
You mean an ISIS US aided in the hopes of overthrowing Assad to make up for the empowering of Iran by lying US into overthrowing Iraq?
I don’t support Iran or ISIS I just don’t by hypocritical bullcrap peddled by “realists” like yourself.
Your kind has brought more terror, destruction and death than all the jihadists in the world combined.
First sentence, yes, 0bama/Hillery/McCain/Graham, all guilty as h3ll.
But then,
those pesky “moderates” went rogue turning into ISIS.
They also bear responsibility and therefore destruction.
The rest of your comment isn’t worth a reply.
Completely irrelevant. But good try, neocon.
It’s relevant because you support it.
I support the nuke deal. Iran’s human rights abuses don’t have anything to do with the nuke deal. But like all good neocons, you keep that narrative going.
The nuke deal is a fraud,
the abuses are real and
imposed against their own citizens,
and their through proxies, in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.
They are the one’s trashing “human rights”.
But like all good programmed millennials, “you keep that narrative going”.
“The nuke deal is a fraud”
True, at least insofar as it was predicated on a nuclear weapons program that the Iranians don’t seem to have actually had.
EVERYTHING you say is a neocon talking point. You repeat the same sh*t over and over no matter what you are replying to. Just more neocon talking points.
And you must have the attention span of a 4 year old. I was born in 1955 moron. Something I’ve mentioned several times during our many “discussions”.
Wow, the first pajama boy!
A pretext for war no longer has to be believable or make sense. Any old BS will do. It’s been that way at least since 9/11. With Trump looking at looming impeachment and his rock-solid base of Christian Zionists, roughly one third of the voting American electorate, expecting him to be the “anointed one” who brings on the apocalypse, and the Likudniks in Israel desperate for some distraction to keep Netanyahu out of prison, war with Iran would be the perfect solution to their immediate problems.
The fact that it will sink the world’s economy like the Titanic and risks nuclear war with Russia and China only makes it a more attractive option. They all have a hard-on for Armageddon, and that’s right down the road from Syria. Bring it on, Donald!
I just finished reading the PressTV article, and in this case it’s pretty clear that the yahoos at Yahoo are right this time and it’s Ditz who is misinterpreting. The Iranians aren’t just talking about these new centrifuges, but total production after adding these and reactivation thousands of others the last 2 months.