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  #3491250 15-May-2026 15:18
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alexx:

 

But the 60% figure allows them to test their enrichment capabilities, while claiming that there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons enrichment program.

 

 

This is big mile high letters,

 

While you're not at bomb grade,  it shows you can get there, you just keep putting the stuff back through the centrifuges...

 

The only reason to get that high is to stick into a navel reactor (which remain as a closed sealed unit for 20+ years) or to build a bomb....

 

You never need it that high for commercial power as the production process makes the power too expensive... 

 

 

 

Although speaking of Naval Nuclear reactors , its does now appear that one of the closing acts of the Biden regime was to sink a Russian vessel with two reactors potentially heading to be installed in North Korean submarines .... (with no uranium core thou) 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/12/world/a-russian-ship-sank-in-mysterious-circumstances-it-may-have-been-carrying-nuclear-reactors-to-north-korea

 

 




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  #3491310 15-May-2026 22:05
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alexx: You are right that 60% enriched uranium is not suitable for a bomb. Regarding the submarines, there are several sources that show the US submarines using 97% enriched uranium in their submarines (97.3% in some sources). This includes some UK submarines with US sourced reactors and would include the new Australian nuclear-powered submarines that are planned under the AUKUS agreement, if those are ever delivered.

Yeah exactly. It is commonly said "there is no civilian use for 60%" falsely implying it is for a "bomb" while completely failing to say it is commonly used by military naval reactors for propulsion.

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  #3491311 15-May-2026 22:09
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More enriched uranium around is not usually a good thing. Yet, at the same time it is the sovereign right of each country to enrich uranium to any level if they so wish. Certainly, countries may agree not to enrich uranium. As an example, Iran agreed to halt enrichment at 3.67% under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by the Obama administration. Trump running for election in 2016 made promises to lobby groups that he would make a much better deal and subsequently withdrew from that agreement in 2018.



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  #3491379 16-May-2026 09:30
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gzt: More enriched uranium around is not usually a good thing. Yet, at the same time it is the sovereign right of each country to enrich uranium to any level if they so wish. Certainly, countries may agree not to enrich uranium. As an example, Iran agreed to halt enrichment at 3.67% under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by the Obama administration. Trump running for election in 2016 made promises to lobby groups that he would make a much better deal and subsequently withdrew from that agreement in 2018.

 

 

 

Yeah if I didn't know any better I might think that the world's greatest stable genius made a rare unforced error.





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  #3491516 16-May-2026 14:30
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Trump's leaverage exposed as being tiny and inadequite. 

 

Unfortunately for the world.
Trump will just see the rapid expansion of his wealth from insider trading etc as winning.
A King defines his own standard of what is an error, a mad King even moreso.
Making the world pay while he gets richer, he might think he is 'king of the world'.

 

MAGA Evangelical Pope's lies are infallible.

 

He just don't care, there ain't no feeling there.
https://www.nzonscreen.com/all-music-videos/but-you-dont-care-1979/

 

Oh and Trumps Transport Secretary is now pushing SMR's for Nuclear powered commercial shipping as a solution. 
Not that USA has any chance of a competitive commercial shipbuilding industry.
Just graft for himself as 'tithe' for subsidies to Techbro friends.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-s-nuclear-powered-shipping-initiative-wants-small-modular-reactors-on-commercial-vessels-to-cut-dependence-on-strait-of-hormuz-fuel/ar-AA23iwgJ


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  #3491524 16-May-2026 15:07
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Cargo shipping is 2-3% of the world's carbon emissions.

Unfortunately, almost absolutely anything nuclear that American industry does with the we assistance of regulatory lobbyists to make it cheaper becomes a nightmare in waiting. They still don't know what they will do with the waste they do have.

However, if they want to do something like that I'd suggest they have a relatively neutral and environmentally friendly country like Norway write and maintain the regulations for the manufacture and operation of those devices.

 
 
 
 

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  #3493817 19-May-2026 16:33
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Ships, does not matter who makes them.
Just have more things that can go wrong, weather etc and don't always sink nicely over deep ocean trench.
Plus with numbers of commercial ships (Hormuz was 100plus tankers a day).
That's a lot more dice you are rolling on weird accidents.

 

French by the way use regular low level nuclear fuel for their nuclear submarines.
Lower cost and doable with civil nuclear compatibility and in this case a lesson for others. :-) 
Though if you already have a large stockpile of HEU from cold war I suppose HEU is essentially free for US tho.

 

For Iran the HEU is an albatross, and trading the HEU for sanctions removal is a deal for advancement and prosperity for Iranian people.
They have proved drones aplenty and some ballistics can defend the brutal theocracy; cos you can use them.

 

Meanwhile Iran conflict unlikely to be resolved while its such an enriching grift and rug-pull for Trump family and associates.
Just announce a delay of an attack you may not have scheduled anyway and it 'false profits' all the way.

 

Its like a child who just discovered light switches. A light switch that fills piggy bank on each flip.


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  #3493865 19-May-2026 19:34
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and trading the HEU for sanctions removal is a deal for advancement and prosperity for Iranian people.

Trump's aims and priorities for the conflict he started will be completely different.

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  #3494688 22-May-2026 11:45
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Fresh attacks on Iran might be imminent...

 

Casualty of war: Trump says he might miss son Don Jr’s wedding over Iran

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/casualty-of-war-trump-says-he-might-miss-son-don-jrs-wedding-over-iran/3S4CAXAKIRAABMFGTKJIFO5ZEQ/


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  #3494691 22-May-2026 11:55
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To be fair I reckon Trump would miss Don Jr's wedding over a free cheeseburger.





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  #3494694 22-May-2026 12:10
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geek3001:

 

 Trump says...

 

 

Every this after this point in the statement should be ignored, 

 

So far the US has  "totally won" and the strait of Hormuz will "open up naturally"... but then he wants "NATO and China" to open it... while blockading Iran..

 

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  #3494707 22-May-2026 13:29
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Iran claims it transited 26 vessels through the strait in the last day:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/20/iran-says-it-coordinated-crossing-of-26-vessels-out-of-strait-of-hormuz

It comes after Xi's meeting with Iran and Xi's meeting with Trump. Iran stated it is happy to transit vessels for any nation not attacking Iran. That is the usual story for merchant shipping in war. 26 is a good start. No doubt the increased transits annoyed the heck out of Trump and completely ruined his day.

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  #3494712 22-May-2026 13:58
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gzt: Iran claims it transited 26 vessels through the strait in the last day:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/20/iran-says-it-coordinated-crossing-of-26-vessels-out-of-strait-of-hormuz

It comes after Xi's meeting with Iran and Xi's meeting with Trump. Iran stated it is happy to transit vessels for any nation not attacking Iran. That is the usual story for merchant shipping in war. 26 is a good start. No doubt the increased transits annoyed the heck out of Trump and completely ruined his day.

 

it included a couple of VLCCs, one heading to Korea with 2 million barrels on board,  a couple to China

 

(Although there is heavily speculation the Korean transit is a payoff, after a drone attack (likely trigger happy IRGC) on the Korean cargo vessel "NAMU" ) 

 

https://maritime-executive.com/article/chinese-and-korean-vlccs-clear-hormuz-as-iran-claims-to-increase-traffic

 

 


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  #3494719 22-May-2026 15:01
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Suspect that Japan is like others paying the toll to get some ships out barring any sensible concept of a solution from USA?

 

Second Japan-linked oil tanker passes Hormuz strait
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16564146?msockid=0337f757885f671b2dd1e45589416621

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The Japanese government has been in direct contact with Iran regarding the ‌vessel's passage, including via its embassy in Tehran, Japan's foreign ministry said in a ​statement. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had a phone call with Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian last month.

 

The government will continue its diplomatic efforts and coordination to get ⁠the remaining 39 Japan-related vessels out of the Gulf, the ministry added.

 

The latest passage through the Strait follows one in late April by the ⁠Idemitsu Maru, carrying Saudi oil and managed by a unit of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan.
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  #3494723 22-May-2026 15:04
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ezbee:

 


Suspect that Japan is like others paying the toll to get some ships out barring any sensible concept of a solution from USA?

 

Second Japan-linked oil tanker passes Hormuz strait
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16564146?msockid=0337f757885f671b2dd1e45589416621

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The Japanese government has been in direct contact with Iran regarding the ‌vessel's passage, including via its embassy in Tehran, Japan's foreign ministry said in a ​statement. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had a phone call with Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian last month.

 

The government will continue its diplomatic efforts and coordination to get ⁠the remaining 39 Japan-related vessels out of the Gulf, the ministry added.

 

The latest passage through the Strait follows one in late April by the ⁠Idemitsu Maru, carrying Saudi oil and managed by a unit of Japanese refiner Idemitsu Kosan.
""

 

 

 

 

Every ship that gets out because a government made arrangements with Iran strengthens Iran and weakens the US, both in terms of direct influence (i.e. the US couldn't get the ship out, Iran allowed it out) and also in terms of weakening the petrodollar because you can bet they didn't pay Iran in USD.





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