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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Iran’s Nuclear Bazaar China and Russia agree to help build five new reactors.

Iran’s Nuclear Bazaar

China and Russia agree to help build five new reactors.




Sokolski is quoted about how easy it would be to use plutonium from light water reactors to make a weapon.

“Civilian nuclear power isn’t illegal. Yet such reactors “can be copious producers of plutonium suitable for nuclear weapons,” notes Henry Sokolski of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. He adds that building a small clandestine reprocessing plant to extract the plutonium “is actually easier than putting up a centrifuge plant” such as those Iran has at Natanz and Fordo.”

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