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ELI5 How come the US goes after people who can enrich Uranium? If I had a country and smart people to build one but was just build energies why does the US have to intervene ie Iran.? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good reason to be suspect but I don't know if it's enough to claim they are enriching to that level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

There isn’t really any reason to enrich to 60% if you aren’t going for weapons grade, 20% HALEU fuel is the highest breakeven I know of where the benefit to enrich to 20% can in certain reactors outweigh the cost of enrichment but even then 20% is considered uncommonly high for most power plants 60% is just another beast with a hugely added cost