Saturday, January 24, 2009

Iran, running out of Uranium!

So, the London Times wonders whether the Uranium is for electricity grids or missiles ... The London Times for Pete's sake! ..."War-on-Iran" lounges must be putting up signs of "going out of business", .... in the London Times, here

"...Iran’s stock of yellow cake, acquired from South Africa in the 1970s under the Shah’s original civil nuclear power programme, has almost run out. Iran is developing its own uranium mines, but does not have enough ore to support a sustained nuclear programme. Any move by the Iranians to buy stocks of uranium from other countries could be interpreted two ways: either as an investment for what they claim is a genuine civil nuclear power programme or as an insurance policy for a future successful weapons project...."

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