China and Iran...

[SoonerProphet]

The point was the amount of enriched material, not weapons grade level, required to run a nuclear power plant requires more centrifuges not fewer. (Iran wants to use nuclear energy for power)

To enrich the smaller amount needed for weapons grade you need fewer centrifuges.


So fewer centrifuges wouldn't necessarily be much of a road block, IF the info in the link below is accurate.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact...bomb-not-powe/

Technically you could enrich to 90% with 500 centrifuges. It would take awhile but you could do it, even with Iran's dated machines.

Technically the old cia guy is correct, what he fails to mention or what the nitwit Chuck Rose fails to follow up is Russian supplies of uranium for the major reactor at Bushehr. The current reduction of centrifuges and all of the "modern" ones iran had is they key to the centrifuge debate.

[dwarthog]

Technically you could enrich to 90% with 500 centrifuges. It would take awhile but you could do it, even with Iran's dated machines.

Technically the old cia guy is correct, what he fails to mention or what the nitwit Chuck Rose fails to follow up is Russian supplies of uranium for the major reactor at Bushehr. The current reduction of centrifuges and all of the "modern" ones iran had is they key to the centrifuge debate.

I have to wonder how having "working" centrifuges, (I.E. not infected with stuxnet), I'm just guessing the international community will play nicer with an official agreement in place and not find ways to inhibit the centrifuges ability to work correctly, will enable the Iranian's to get a better feel for what can be done with an actual working centrifuge and how they will leverage that knowledge when at year 11 of the agreement they get to upgrade to current centrifuge technology.