North Korea is reported to have exported 45 tons of uranium to Iran via Syria.
Japan's Kyodo News reports citing diplomatic sources that North Korea sent 45 tons of yellowcake uranium to Syria in 2007.
The uranium which is enough to make several nuclear bombs was then transferred to Iran last summer.
Soon after the report a US non-proliferation expert Leonard Spector voiced concerns that North Korea and Iran will likely cooperate to avoid UN sanctions which would seriously undermine internationa

Modern yellowcake typically contains 70 to 90 percent triuranium octoxide (U3O8) by weight. Other oxides such as uranium dioxide (UO2) and uranium trioxide (UO3) exist.

Yellowcake is used in the preparation of uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, for which it is smelted into purified UO2 for use in fuel rods for pressurized heavy-water reactors and other systems that use natural unenriched uranium.

Purified uranium metal (not the uranium oxide) can also be enriched in the isotope U-235. In this process, the uranium is combined with fluorine to form uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). Next, that undergoes isotope separation through the process of gaseous diffusion, or in a gas centrifuge. This produces either: A. Somewhat enriched uranium containing about four percent U-235 that is suitable for use in large civilian electric-power reactors, or B. Highly-enriched uranium containing 90% or more U-235 that is suitable for use in compact nuclear reactors - usually used to power naval warships and submarines, or in nuclear weapons.

Yellowcake is produced by all countries in which uranium ore is mined.

Even when not processed into nuclear weapons, it was dangerous in its own right, being radioactive. It could also be used in other methods of spreading radiation short of full nuclear bombs. The AP story explained the logistical nightmare of simply transporting it. It also cited the fear of it falling into the hands of insurgents. That is how dangerous it was when we were in control of it.

Saddam could have had an active program without having anything in production or deliverable at all. A weapon program is not a weapon; it is a program -- it means the potential for future weapons. This distinction seems to get lost way too often.

Iran may be close to exhausting its supply of uranium oxide, or yellowcake, raising questions about the commercial viability of its nuclear program, a new study said Wednesday.

Based on a November 2008 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the analysts estimate that Iran has consumed nearly three quarters of the 600 tons of yellowcake it acquired from South Africa in the 1970s during the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

Boy do I enjoy non-hypocrisy and equality!

Ahmad Vahidi, nominated Thursday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to serve as Iran's defense minister, is a suspected international terrorist sought by Interpol in connection with a deadly 1994 attack on a Jewish community center in Argentina.

Spector stressed that a North Korea-Iran nuclear nexus could gravely undermine international nonproliferation efforts, saying that the North Korean yellowcake transfer could be only the first of many such shipments.

"As North Korea itself has been attempting to enrich uranium using the same technology as Iran, Tehran could return the favor by assisting Pyongyang make this program a success," he wrote.

"After having flagrantly violated relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions by continuing their respective nuclear operations, it now appears that North Korea and Iran may have begun to assist each other to bypass the Council's demands."

Originally posted by Grayelf2009
Well looks like it could be a really hot summer. Just in case someone wants some Potassium Iodide tablets ,here ya go>> Nuke Me

Originally posted by Grayelf2009
Well looks like it could be a really hot summer. Just in case someone wants some Potassium Iodide tablets ,here ya go>> Nuke Me

Originally posted by CanadianDream420

Originally posted by Grayelf2009
Well looks like it could be a really hot summer. Just in case someone wants some Potassium Iodide tablets ,here ya go>> Nuke Me

I lived near a Nuclear Plant in New Brunswick Canada, along the border... [they all are ]

Those idodine tablets would be as effective as an airbag, if you drove off a 5000 foot cliff.

Originally posted by minkey53

Originally posted by Grayelf2009
Well looks like it could be a really hot summer. Just in case someone wants some Potassium Iodide tablets ,here ya go>> Nuke Me

I have friends in the Military and shall we say Government.

Let's also say that as if last week, I was given a load of these for myself and my family and told to take them straight away. We started taking them this last Monday and I am watching the news in anticipation of something kicking off very soon.

We will probably wake up to it one morning soon on the news about a MASSIVE overnight strike on Iran???

I have also today just filled up our cars with petrol as the price will go silly when it all starts and I have about one months of supplies (food and water) in my garage just like my um, friends / contacts have!!