Iran to unveil new uranium centrifuges, state TV says

[dipsydoodle]

Iran is to unveil a "new generation" of faster, more efficient uranium enrichment centrifuges, state television says.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to make an announcement on Iran's nuclear programme later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17041135

[madokie]

2. I hope that Iran does get the bomb so the rest of the world will maybe leave them alone

look at Israel, they have the bomb and they've threatened Iran numerous times. Look at the USA, we've threatened Iran several times. I don't for a second think that Iran will do anything stupid with the bomb if they do build one. I personally think they feel threatened by all the nukes around them, I know if I was them I would. By joining the nuclear club they may just find some peace. I hate to put it that way but thats how I see it. Imadinnerjacket is just nuts so no one should listen to him anyway concerning what Iran is doing or planning to do. Again IMHO

[cstanleytech]

3. I do not believe supporting nuclear proliferation such as you are advocating for

is the best course if peace is really the goal.

[RKP5637]

6. I don't have a high regard for the logic and peacefulness of mankind, I see the

proliferation of nukes as increasing the probability that mankind will F up by accident or intentionally.

[jakeXT]

9. We came close again after Fukushima

Russia faced major nuclear disaster in 2011: Report

MOSCOW — Russia came close to nuclear disaster in late December when a blaze engulfed a nuclear-powered submarine carrying atomic weapons, a leading Russian magazine reported, contradicting official assurances that it was not armed.

Russian officials said at the time that all nuclear weapons aboard the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine had been unloaded well before a fire engulfed the 167-metre (550 feet) vessel and there had been no risk of a radiation leak.

But the respected Vlast weekly magazine quoted several sources in the Russian navy as saying that throughout the fire on Dec. 29 the submarine was carrying 16 R-29 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each armed with four nuclear warheads.

"Russia, for a day, was on the brink of the biggest catastrophe since the time of Chernobyl," Vlast reported. The 1986 disaster in modern-day Ukraine is regarded as the world's worst nuclear accident.

...

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=6157152

[RKP5637]

10. I often think about all of the hazardous waste sites in this country. And I think

they're still debating where to dump our nuclear waste. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository canceled in 2009 ... "This leaves United States civilians without any long term storage site for high level radioactive waste."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository

[midnight armadillo]

12. Yucca Mountain was a disaster

It was the only site investigated because senators from other states had enough clout to keep their states out of contention. Storage of waste at Yucca would have ruined nearby groundwater for millenia, at best...and that's after the "mobile Chernobyl" to get it there.

We're better off putting our $ into breeder reactors and using that waste as fuel.

[EX500rider]

11. Except...

..then the Saudis and Egypt and the Gulf States will all go nuclear as well....they fear Iran more then Israel.
Not a good thing for more unstable countries to get the bomb.

[CAPHAVOC]

4. Bring all the troops home now.

Is my opinion. We need to rebuild and regroup here. Not Nation Build all over the world.

[cstanleytech]

8. Your opinion is noted, just to bad history doesnt support it.

Ah well.

[jpak]

5. Safe and peaceful nuclear power

yup

[DUIC]

7. Are they French, Russian, or Chinese centrifuges

That is the question I want to know. Who is helping supply Iran?