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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

ELI5 How come the US goes after people who can enrich Uranium? If I had a country and smart people to build one but was just build energies why does the US have to intervene ie Iran.?

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ELI5 How come the US goes after people who can enrich Uranium? If I had a country and smart people to build one but was just build energies why does the US have to intervene ie Iran.?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago
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    https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/6/19/what-is-irans-fordow-nuclear-facility-and-could-us-weapons-destroy-it

    This was the article talking about IAEA finding particles at over 83%

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      Good reason to be suspect but I don’t know if it’s enough to claim they are enriching to that level.

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        There isn’t really any reason to enrich to 60% if you aren’t going for weapons grade, 20% HALEU fuel is the highest breakeven I know of where the benefit to enrich to 20% can in certain reactors outweigh the cost of enrichment but even then 20% is considered uncommonly high for most power plants 60% is just another beast with a hugely added cost

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