by Dave Kimble at
www.peakoil.org.au on 26 April 2008
This is the layout of a nuclear reactor
core.
( Note the North Korean design influence with the
cores arranged in rows. )
Except that the diagram carries the label "NRC
Plant Information Document"
that is, this is a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
picture of the Three Mile Island reactor core.
So suggestions that the image below shows North Korean
design influence is nonsense.
frame grab from ABC TV News, 25 April 2008
And have a more careful look at the wall in the background
of the image, especially on the right-hand side.
We should be looking at the inside of a blast-proof containment chamber wall.
These are typically built in a spherical shape for strength.
Does the wall change direction or what
?
And at mid-height, where did that ledge come from
?
It looks like this photo has been
doctored.
And it certainly doesn't look like it was taken
inside a reactor containment chamber.
Judging by the stains on the wall, this area has been open to the elements for a while.
And yet there is hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of steel-work just sitting there,
with no piping or wiring or lights on the walls, no cranes or heavy lifting rigs, nothing.
Huh ?
In the first sentence of its latest
explanation, the US says:
"Until
September 6, 2007, the Syrian regime was building a covert nuclear reactor in
its eastern desert capable of producing plutonium."
ALL REACTORS produce Plutonium, so why say "capable of producing
plutonium".
You can almost hear the incidental music change to
minor key.
The statement
also says "Carefully hidden from
view, the reactor was not configured for such [peaceful]
purposes. "
But the reactor was far from hidden.
Nothing can be hidden in these days of satellite
imagery. This wasn't even underground.
And the way you configure a reactor to produce more
Plutonium than otherwise
is to use a richer fuel - either by enriching the
U-235:U-238 ratio or by increasing the amount of Plutonium in mixed oxide
fuels,
and then to run it at a high
temperature and "burn-up rate".
None of this can be applied to a half-built
concrete shell.
As usual we are not being told the truth by the US and Israel. The timing of the announcement
comes as the US leaks that Israel is offering to give up the Golan for peace with Syria.
If they really wanted those talks to succeed, then they would have kept quiet about this,
instead of beating it up as much as possible.
Dave Kimble
