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6/17/2025, 6:51:27 PM
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Refining uranium is a very expensive, energy consuming and difficult process.
You can get the isotope out of the raw mineral a few ways but the easiest is to put it in a giant super sonic centrifuge and spin the materials to separate them on an atomic scale. The exact way to do this down to the engineering is still kind of an international secret, so while everyone's scientists know the method, the knowledge to get it correct is not public knowledge.
You're trying to extract the tiny fractions of a percentage of pure uranium 235 isotope from the raw uranium compound. It's easy to fuck up. It's difficult to buy and it's expensive as fuck. The giant facilities it takes to do the refining are very easy and obvious to spot if you're looking for them, the cost is astronomical, the machinery has to be made from scratch because nobody sells industrial gaseous centrifuge systems for refining uranium isotope specifically.
It's a giant pain in the dick for any country to do.
Let alone do in secret.
And then once you've got this isotope, you need a separate rocket program or a bomber program and all the engineering bullshit that comes with that.
Iran hasn't done it because it's a giant undertaking that most countries couldn't do if they wanted to, and most of the ones that could don't even think it's worth it because of the international condemnation that comes with it.
Also a nuclear program in the 21st century doesn't have any financial benefit other than defensive capability. You use nukes to back up the threats of retribution and retaliation you make against people who threaten you.
Churchill and Truman famously got the Soviet Union to leave Greece after world war 2 by threatening them with atomic bombs (a technology they lacked at the time), but that's really one of the very few instances I've seen it used to gain something like that.
Refining uranium is a very expensive, energy consuming and difficult process.
You can get the isotope out of the raw mineral a few ways but the easiest is to put it in a giant super sonic centrifuge and spin the materials to separate them on an atomic scale. The exact way to do this down to the engineering is still kind of an international secret, so while everyone's scientists know the method, the knowledge to get it correct is not public knowledge.
You're trying to extract the tiny fractions of a percentage of pure uranium 235 isotope from the raw uranium compound. It's easy to fuck up. It's difficult to buy and it's expensive as fuck. The giant facilities it takes to do the refining are very easy and obvious to spot if you're looking for them, the cost is astronomical, the machinery has to be made from scratch because nobody sells industrial gaseous centrifuge systems for refining uranium isotope specifically.
It's a giant pain in the dick for any country to do.
Let alone do in secret.
And then once you've got this isotope, you need a separate rocket program or a bomber program and all the engineering bullshit that comes with that.
Iran hasn't done it because it's a giant undertaking that most countries couldn't do if they wanted to, and most of the ones that could don't even think it's worth it because of the international condemnation that comes with it.
Also a nuclear program in the 21st century doesn't have any financial benefit other than defensive capability. You use nukes to back up the threats of retribution and retaliation you make against people who threaten you.
Churchill and Truman famously got the Soviet Union to leave Greece after world war 2 by threatening them with atomic bombs (a technology they lacked at the time), but that's really one of the very few instances I've seen it used to gain something like that.
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