The P5+1 Ministers Has Worked Out an Interim Nuclear Agreement
with Iran
The agreement includes the following:
1) Iran
must stop all enrichment over 5%
2) Iran
must dilute and stop all plutonium production
3) Iran
must allow international inspectors to verify compliance
4) All centrifuges not operating must be stalled
5) The P5+1 powers wil1 unfreeze 6-7 billion of Iran assets
for 6 months
It is important to note that the agreement is an interim agreement.
During the 6 months period, the P5+1 ministers will be working toward a permanent
agreement. President Obama said that if Iran does not abide by the
agreement, they will impose harsher sanctions and possibly military strikes. Benjamin
Netanyahu, the prime Minister of Israel
and his lobbyist on Capital Hill claim that it is the worst agreement
they have ever seen.
Netanyahu represent most of the far right-wing forces in the
Likud Party. They don’t want any kind of deal with the Iranians.
Netanyahu want to keep the focus on Iran so that he can continue to steal an occupy Palestinian Land Israel ’s interest to trade land for
peace. Netanyahu has responded by building more settlements on the occupied
lands.
Netanyahu claim that some of the Arabic Countries like Saudi Arabia do
not support the nuclear agreement. The Saudi’s has expressed some concerns
about the deal but has not out right rejected it. Leaders of the Brooklyn and Wilson Institutes
points out that a lot of their disagreements with Iran
have nothing to do with the nuclear Agreement; Saudi
Arabia is Sunni and Iran is Shiite. The ethnic rivalries
between these two countries go back hundreds of years. Saudi Arabian is very nervous about any close
relationship between Iran
and the US because it might destabilize
the Middle East .
If Netanyahu is so concerned about Nuclear Arms in the
Middle East, why doesn’t he work to keep Nuclear Arms out of the Middle East period? Israel has been stockpiling nuclear
weapons for years and has refused to join the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.
Four UN member states have never signed the treaty: India , Israel ,
Pakistan and South Sudan . Washington
keeps quiet about Israel
because they don’t want to upset their ally.
Taken From Wikipedia:
Plutonium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with the symbol Pu andatomic number 94.
It is an actinide metal of silvery-gray appearance that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull
coating when oxidized. The element normally exhibits
six allotropes and four oxidation states.
It reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen, silicon and hydrogen. When exposed to
moist air, it forms oxides and hydrides that expand the sample up to 70% in
volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that can spontaneously
ignite. It is radioactive and can accumulate in the bones. These properties
make the handling of plutonium dangerous.
Plutonium is the
heaviest primordial element by virtue of its most stable isotope,plutonium-244,
whose half-life of about 80 million years is just
long enough for the element to be found in trace quantities in nature. Plutonium
is mostly a byproduct of nuclear
reactions in reactors
where some of the neutrons released by the fission process convert uranium-238 nuclei
into plutonium.
Both plutonium-239 and plutonium-241 are fissile, meaning that they
can sustain a nuclear chain reaction, leading to
applications in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Plutonium-240 exhibits a high rate of spontaneous fission, raising the neutron flux of any sample containing it. The
presence of plutonium-240 limits a plutonium sample's usability for weapons or
its quality as reactor fuel, and the percentage of plutonium-240 determines its grade (weapons
grade, fuel grade, or reactor grade).
Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years and
emits alpha particles.
It is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators,
which are used to power some spacecraft. Plutonium isotopes are expensive and inconvenient
to separate, so particular isotopes are usually manufactured in specialized
reactors.
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