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P5+1 Reach Nuclear Deal With Iran

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 14 2015, @06:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the success dept.

takyon writes:

According to the White House:

After many months [Ed: years?] of principled diplomacy, the P5+1 -- the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany -- along with the European Union, have achieved a long-term comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran that will verifiably prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and ensure that Iran's nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful going forward.

Reported at BBC, NYT, Reuters, and everywhere else. President Obama spoke about the deal for 15 minutes this morning.

The deal has been praised by Syrian President Bashar Assad and slammed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Text of the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JNCF on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:07PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:07PM (#209041) Journal

    From the agreement, after establishing that Iran is going to be building a nuclear power plant that uses heavy water:

    There will be no additional heavy water reactors or accumulation of heavy water in Iran for 15 years. All excess heavy water will be made available for export to the international market.

    Anybody know why this is in the agreement? Are the anti-Iran parties just worried about them making tritium, or are there other reasons to prevent Iran from stocking up on heavy water? I could see tritium control being reason enough, and I could also see it being used as a pretext to limit Iran's nuclear power production for economic reasons. Just wondering if I'm missing another obvious angle on it.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by zeigerpuppy on Tuesday July 14 2015, @08:49PM

    by zeigerpuppy (1298) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @08:49PM (#209084)

    Heavy water reactors can be very efficiently used for breeding plutonium from U238
    https://fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/heavy.htm [fas.org]

    This is also probably to keep Iran dependent on imported fuel.
    They'll thus be a half member of the nuclear club but not able to play with the big boys.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Tuesday July 14 2015, @09:12PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @09:12PM (#209100) Journal

      Ah, didn't know that. Thankyou.