Report: Massive Explosion Reported At Suspected Iran Nuclear Site
An Anonymous commenter poses the entirely reasonable question:
If the Iranian Nuclear Program is for Peaceful purposes only, why do they have a Explosives Producing Factory" in the facility?
Breitbart:
An explosion at or near a suspected nuclear facility near Tehran is being reported by Iran’s state news agency IRNA. The facility is described as an ‘explosives producing factory’ in eastern Tehran on Sunday evening.
An opposition website claims the blast occurred near the Parchin military site, south-east of the capital, but there is no confirmation. The Parchin site, denied to international inspectors until reported by opposition groups, is thought to be a key component of Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons program. Inspectors from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been denied access to the top secret facility since 2005.
Those familiar with Iran’s nuclear program have long believed Iran’s nuclear scientists have been conducting top secret experiments involving "high-explosive shaped charges with an inert core of depleted uranium" to test the characteristics of an implosion style nuclear device. An opposition group, The National Council of Resistance provided documentation to international inspectors that it claimed showed that Iran was developing a highly sophisticated network of underground tunnels at the Parchin site in order to advance its nuclear research away from prying eyes.
Quoting a comment posted on this topic:
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.
I have worked in MANY nuclear plants, in and out of the US.
This report has a strange line in it. About a fire in an “explosives production unit”.
Let’s see, “Our nuclear plants are for peaceful purposes”.
And yet they have “explosives production units” in them.
Fortunate for us, not everybody is asleep at the wheel ...
ReplyDeleteIsrael says Iran used Parchin military site for testing nuclear detonation technology
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Israel said on Wednesday that Iran has used its Parchin military base as the site for secret tests of technology that could be used only for detonating a nuclear weapon.A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani - the architect of Tehran's nuclear diplomacy - was to address the U.N. General Assembly, said the implosion tests at Parchin involved neutron sources that would include nuclear material.
"It is important to emphasise that these kinds of tests can have no 'dual use' explanation, since the only possible purpose of such internal neutron sources is to ignite the nuclear chain reaction in nuclear weapons," the Israeli statement said.
"Dual use" technology, materials or know-how can be applied to producing either civilian nuclear energy or nuclear bombs.