Moniz: Test results back up assurances on Iran deal

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Source: Politico

But Moniz, President Barack Obama’s salesman-in-chief on the agreement’s technical aspects, says Energy Department specialists conducted experiments to gauge how hard it would be to detect the radioactive residue left behind. The result, he said, was that three weeks wouldn’t be enough time for Iran to be sure it had covered its tracks — by a large margin.

“It is essentially impossible, certainly with confidence, to believe that you’re going to do this kind of work with nuclear materials and be confident at having it cleaned it up,” Moniz, who helped negotiate the agreement alongside Secretary of State John Kerry, said in an interview with POLITICO before meeting with lawmakers about the pact. He said the experiments involved “very limited quantities” of uranium, and that DOE “unsuccessfully probed the limits of trying to clean it up.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/moniz-test-results-back-up-assurances-on-iran-deal-120507.html

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The pro-war crowd had been frothing over this. Sorry, no war for you.

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1. thanks for staying on this, geek.

We have to keep fighting the BombIran crowd - they have tons of cash to dominate the debate into the election year.