How can Iran’s enriched uranium be destroyed?

[Horatius]

@md-2000

Or they could mine more. They obviously got the original material from somewhere; and I agree, the leftovers must be somewhere, even if in a discard pile.

They have at least two uranium mines in Iran:

Nuclear program of Iran | Secret expansion and weaponization efforts (1990s–2002)

And that’s the fundamental problem with the notion of Iran “Never” being able to make a bomb. So long as they have access to a native source of uranium, they have what it takes to make a bomb. Maybe they stop trying for a few years or a few decades, but there’s no way to say for sure that they’ll never develop a bomb.

Even the solutions of diluting the enriched uranium just postpones the development of the bomb. We know how to enrich it, and the Iranians have shown they are capable of it if they want it badly enough, and that knowledge can’t be destroyed.

[LSLGuy]

Great explanations all. One micro-nitpick:

@beowulff

Or - you could feed low-enriched Uranium into a giant mass spectrometer, called a Caultron.

That’s a typo. It’s a Calutron - Wikipedia. Which typo doesn’t matter until somebody tries to look it up.