Inside look at Iran's nuclear program

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Submitted by NotBornYesterday on Saturday May 03 2008, @08:41AM

NotBornYesterday writes "On April 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his country's secretive nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz for a photo op. What came out of this visit is a series of photos which have caused a fair amount of interest among western scientists. Shown in the photos are not only some of the inner workings of the plant and current generation of enrichment centrifuges, but also key components to newer generations of more effective centrifuges. Analysts are "intrigued" not only by the technical revelations in the pictures, but also because Iran's Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar accompanied Ahmadinejad through the facility. In the words of one analyst, "This is intel to die for.""

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This is just 1950's ideas. (Score:2)

by AHuxley (892839) writes:

Gernot Zippe worked in a few parts of the world.
Centrifuges go back to the 1950's.
If Brazil can build this for submarine propulsion,
so can any other part of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot_Zippe [wikipedia.org]
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/3070 [ieee.org]

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This is just 1950's ideas. (Score:2)