Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Putting Parchin to Rest

Putting Parchin to Rest

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano and his top deputy last month finally paid a personal visit to a building at the sprawling Parchin military factory complex in Iran that they have suspected of housing unspecified nuclear-related experiments. Amano later reported that, in addition to some signs of recent renovation work, the building had “no equipment” inside it.
Missing was a 700-ton block of steel-reinforced concrete, about the size of a two-story house, surrounding an approximately 200-ton steel vessel—bigger than a London double-decker bus and 15 times heavier. This missing equipment had been thought to be for experiments to develop nuclear weapons. According to one carefully researched study, it would have looked something like this:


http://lobelog.com/putting-parchin-to-rest/#more-31315

No comments:

Post a Comment