Moniz: Test results back up assurances on Iran deal
Source: Politico
But Moniz, President Barack Obamas salesman-in-chief on the agreements 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 wouldnt 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 youre 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.
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The pro-war crowd had been frothing over this. Sorry, no war for you.