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| Iran Claims New Nuclear Breakthrough |
| 2005-08-30 |
| Iran announced Monday it has made another breakthrough in its controversial nuclear programme by successfully using biotechnology to extract purer uranium from its mines. A report on state television said researchers from Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, after six years of research, had mastered the technique of employing microbes to purify uranium ore in mines prior to mining. It said "using biotechnology substantially decreases the cost, increases optimisation and prevents environmental contamination" in the process that leads to the production of yellowcake, or concentrated uranium oxide. The report, quoting a senior researcher, said the microbes were "successfully used in experimental stages" in central Iran's uranium mines. "This bacteria is very valuable" and makes the production of yellowcake "100 to 200 times cheaper", he said... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Actually, such "mining" bacteria have been around now for at least 10 years. They are some of the most carefully guarded proprietary bacteria around, worth many millions of dollars to the mining companies that have developed and own them. I would not be surprised that the Iranians have developed a strain capable of attacking iron sulfer compounds (sulfate? sulfite? sulfide?) |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-30 17:18 |
| #7 How do they do that by only reading the Quran. Either they are not only reading the Quran (shame on them heathens), or they are lying (they are allowed to lie to infidels), or Allah don't like us, and likes them. But then again, Allah keeps doing things for them that make us kill them. Maybe he does'nt like them. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-08-30 16:53 |
| #6 Iranian Biotech? They are so full of $hit I can smell it in San Diego. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-08-30 16:50 |
| #5 Me, I sleep so much easier at night knowing the EU3 are on the case. |
| Posted by: Spot 2005-08-30 16:31 |
| #4 Joe Wilson said there's nuthin' to it. |
| Posted by: Doolittle 2005-08-30 15:26 |
| #3 Speaking for myself, the only time I want to read the words "Iran" and "Breakthrough" in the same sentence is when I read that USAF bunker busters have landed on target. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2005-08-30 15:23 |
| #2 Part of Iranian psyops on the EUniks and others. They want concentrated U235 because a uranium bomb means prestige and respect, in the twisted eyes and minds of the MMs. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-08-30 15:22 |
| #1 But the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation and Al Qaida also wanted the US and Britain to understand that the yellowcake is for peaceful purposes only. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-08-30 14:06 |