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Iranian Nuclear Accident?
This might be old news, but did anything more come of this?
- byrneseyeview 17y agoI wonder how many of these rumors they hear, and how unlikely it is that they'd find corroborating evidence.
- amichail 17y agoIsn't this an underground facility? Radiation released if any was probably contained?
- ars 17y agoWhen you say radiation do you mean radioactive matter, or actual radiation (like gamma rays)? Because there is nothing to contain if it was gamma rays since they dissipate (like light). If it was neutrons then it can make other things radioactive, but again, there is nothing to contain. Contain sort of implies an explosion. But nuclear accident does not necessarily mean an explosion.
- ars 17y agoMy guess is a criticality accident. They are very hard to avoid without [institutional] experience. I've been expecting one for quite a while.
- baguasquirrel 17y agoTrue... but even supposing that it were to happen, it may not have been a big deal, in the grand scheme of things. It happened twice to the US A-Bomb program and life went on. General Leslie was not forced down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr.
- kingkawn 17y agoInflaming outside pressure on Iran regarding its nuclear program via anonymous leaks at this time will result in internal pressure against the still flourishing opposition movement.
- alins 17y ago1. Aghazadeh resigned as he had supported Mousavi in the presidential elections and had had enough of Ahamdinejad. He was replaced by the much better qualified, and very well respected Ali Akbar Salehi (MIT PhD): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Salehi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Salehi 2. Natanz is under full IAEA supervision (cameras, sampling devices, etc) and subject to frequent IAEA visits. If there was any type of an accident or radiation release, you would have heard it by now, or you will see it in the next IAEA report on Iran's nuclear activities.