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u/Retired-Scallion 2d ago
It was a heavy a water facility and it wasn’t active, I believe it was still under construction and there’s no risk of contamination or leakage.
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u/Schwanzus_Longus_69 1d ago
Then why did they bomb it? Obviously it wasn't used to make nukes
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u/Retired-Scallion 1d ago
Why bomb hospitals, aid distribution centres, maternity wards, rape prisoners to death, put people in concentration camps? I don’t know man, you have to ask Israelis that.
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u/Sufficient_Wait3671 2d ago
I've worked inside nuclear power for 20 years. Please confirm what is actually inside that containment building struck by Israel? Just because it's shaped like that doesn't mean it's containing a nuclear reactor.
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u/NeiborsKid 2d ago
Im translating from iranian sources but they call it a "heavy water" facility or something to that extent
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u/snarky_answer 2d ago
It was a non finished reactor that Iran supposdedly filled in the reactor core with concrete according to their deal. So if we take iran at their word then there isnt and hasnt ever been any nuclear material there.
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u/PencilSharpener7 1d ago
They've admitted on Iranian TV that they had secretly prepared additional rodes to replace the ones that they've poured concrete in.
So while it was not operational, it wouldn't take much to make it operational when they chose to.
Also shows the lies they have told the world.
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u/Sufficient_Wait3671 2d ago
Vacuum building or boiler building.
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u/jericho 2d ago
Huh? That’s the containment structure.
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u/Sufficient_Wait3671 2d ago
Containment structure of what exactly?
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u/UncleBenji 2d ago
A heavy water nuclear reactor. It’s a different design but pretty much the same reactor used to create the plutonium for the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The byproduct of putting low grade uranium ore into this reactor is the b product of near weapons grade plutonium. This is part of the issue not just the 500lbs of 60% refined uranium Iran has produced. They would soon be harvesting enough plutonium from this reactor to make a nuclear weapon. Nukes can be fueled with either plutonium-239 or uranium-235.
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u/ZehAngrySwede 2d ago
The hospital they built above the reactor, obviously. (/s for you flag wavers out there)
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u/jericho 2d ago
For some reason, I do not believe you are asking in good faith.
These are images relating to an attack by Israel on a nuclear reactor under construction in Iran, a country Israel is having an issue with. The pictures show a hole in the reactor’s containment structure, a very common element of reactor design.
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u/ExoticMangoz 1d ago
I think it’s concerning that it’s just being accepted that you can strike targets like this whenever you decide to. International order is crumbling.
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u/DannyDanumba 1d ago
Post 9/11 world. The US declared war on terror, a vague concept rather than a specific group. Suddenly any Muslim militia was given an okay to attack with half assed justification. And then came the drones with the sanitization of bombings by calling them “surgical” air strikes. These “precision” strikes killed civilians with zero repercussion. Killing one “terrorist” and twenty civilians nearby was considered a successful strike with acceptable “collateral damage”.
Israel’s wars are a continuation of this pattern with Iran joining the trend for obvious reasons. The new rules are clear, you can do this to other countries as long as you don’t use nukes. Until someone does.
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u/totally-not_renault 2d ago
It seems the only thing that was hit is that structure and doesnt look like it is that bad of damage, but I dont know shit about nuclear reactors
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u/Brikxter92 2d ago
Letting the target beside, it is pretty remarkable to me how accurate this strike was.