Explosion at Iran’s Fordo uranium enrichment site. Is this report true?

So far, I have not been able to find corroborating information on this. Please check out the comments below this item – some good points to alert us to the possibility that this is a hoax. And note the video below the blogs – reminder of the effect of the radio program “War of the Worlds” – which panicked people many decades ago. – C.M.

Report: Explosion Destroys Key Iran Nuclear Site http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/122646/report-explosion-destroys-key-iran-nuclear-site A source is reporting much of the underground Fordo site has been hit By Adam Chandler|January 25, 2013 A few major sites that linked to WND story have removed it. I take that as a pretty good indication that this story cannot be confirmed.

According to World News Daily, a massive explosion is said to have destroyed most of Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordo.

An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.

The previously secret nuclear site has become a center for Iran’s nuclear activity because of the 2,700 centrifuges enriching uranium to the 20-percent level. A further enrichment to weapons grade would take only weeks, experts say.

The explosion is said to have taken place on Monday. The nuclear site is a high profile target given that it’s completely underground and recently reached nuclear capacity. Just earlier today, it was reported that the Iran could quadruple enrichment at the Fordo site.

While I am extremely skeptical of this report’s veracity until I hear more, this is potentially a massive development. More to come.

January 26, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, safety

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yeah the original source when it first came out was a blog.. no real media and no rsoe, no bloggers commenting from iran… no reports of radionuclides in sorroundig countries that were supplied with state oft the art radiation monitoring trucks..

classic dis info! imo
straight from the isreali bloggers/military stables..
catch out unsuspecting bloggers to effect credibility..
you are wise beyond your years christine..
i doff my cap in your general direction..
theres no pulling the wool over your eyes boss!
i am humbled!!
🙂

Comment by arclight2011 | January 26, 2013 | Reply
- oh and great headline
  great critical thinking..
  wonder if we could do a headline
  “N korea attacks deep underground iranian base to blame isreal and the usa!! with chinese and Mali child soldires help !!”
  now that would be an interesting storyline? 🙂
  
  Comment by arclight2011 | January 26, 2013 | Reply
  - other believable headlines
    
    Iran abducted by ufos
    iran adopts second ammendment of the usa constitution
    isreal has “love in” with iran
    mali child soldiers hide in iran and accidentaly cause a meltdown while watching the simpsons
    western mining companies (especially paladin) sell iran dodgy uranium
    director of paladin has meltdown in iran 🙂 (my favourite)
    and finally
    
    stupid story deflects real stories giving evidence of ongoing and past contamination in Japan!! Huge cover up, loads of children effected! now go back to sleep..!!
    ??
    disinfo!! imo
    
    Comment by arclight2011 | January 26, 2013
- Thank you Arclight “Wise beyond my years” – what a load of twaddle! Never mind. Flattery will get you everywhere!
  
  On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:19 PM, nuclear-news
  
  Comment by Christina MacPherson | January 27, 2013 | Reply
  - 🙂
    
    Comment by arclight2011 | January 27, 2013
mind you, it could be true though?? :0

Comment by arclight2011 | January 26, 2013 | Reply
Detecting a test of a nuclear weapon has become so effective and reliable that no nation could expect to get away with secretly exploding a device having military significance
By Paul G. Richards and Won-Young Kim
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=advances-in-monitoring-nuclear

MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES: HOW THEY WORK
Seismic monitoring
Hydroacoustic monitoring
Infrasound monitoring
Radionuclide monitoring

http://www.ctbto.org/verification-regime/

No nothing there! LOL!

mind you from the CTBT website

CTBTO’s Vorian Maryssael (front row, 4th from left), Director of the International Monitoring System Division and Natalie Brely (on her right), Chief of the Monitoring Facilities Support Section, recently opened the Global Seismological Observation Training Course in Japan. Both gave lectures on the CTBT and its verification regime to participants from six different countries. The courses are organized since 1995 by Japan’s International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE), in cooperation with the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
For more information on Japan’s cooperation with the CTBTO, see: http://bit.ly/WwgIY0

hehe! maybe there was a nuke incident in iran then?? 🙂

Comment by arclight2011 | January 26, 2013 | Reply
Iran: 3 arrests for Fordo sabotage http://www.debka.com/article/22364/Exclusive-Iran-arrests-3-Fordo-sabotage-suspects-who-entered-from-Azerbaijan – that story is For Sale

Comment by No War Now | January 26, 2013 | Reply
- hi no war now
  here is no iranian or azerbaijan links to suppport that story?
  suspicious !
  
  Comment by arclight2011 | January 27, 2013 | Reply
the same sources that have leaked info on the sabotage to iranian nuclear infrastructure has contacted WND and now RSOE (who do not show fukushima on their warning map) have posted a tentative warming.. with no update for the last 24 hours..

WARNING! This is information absolute not confirmed!) An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime. The previously secret nuclear site has become a center for Iran’s nuclear activity because of the 2,700 centrifuges enriching uranium to the 20-percent level. A further enrichment to weapons grade would take only weeks, experts say. The level of enrichment has been a major concern to Israeli officials, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly has warned about the 20-percent enriched stockpile. The explosion occurred Monday, the day before Israeli elections weakened Netanyahu’s political control. Iran, to avoid alarm, had converted part of the stockpile to fuel plates for use in the Tehran Research Reactor. However, days after the recent failed talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iranian officials announced the enrichment process will not stop even “for a moment.”

The regime’s uranium enrichment process takes place at two known sites: the Natanz facility with more than 10,000 centrifuges and Fordow with more than 2,700. The regime currently has enough low-grade (3.5 percent) uranium stockpiled for six nuclear bombs if further enriched. However, more time is needed for conversion of the low-grade uranium than what would be needed for a stockpile at 20 percent. It takes 225 kilograms of enriched uranium at the 20-percent level to further enrich to the 90-percent level for one nuclear bomb. According to a source in the security forces protecting Fordow, an explosion on Monday at 11:30 a.m. Tehran time rocked the site, which is buried deep under a mountain and immune not only to airstrikes but to most bunker-buster bombs. The report of the blast came via Hamidreza Zakeri, formerly with the Islamic regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and National Security, The blast shook facilities within a radius of three miles. Security forces have enforced a no-traffic radius of 15 miles, and the Tehran-Qom highway was shut down for several hours after the blast, the source said. As of Wednesday afternoon, rescue workers had failed to reach the trapped personnel.

The site, about 300 feet under a mountain, had two elevators which now are out of commission. One elevator descended about 240 feet and was used to reach centrifuge chambers. The other went to the bottom to carry heavy equipment and transfer uranium hexafluoride. One emergency staircase reaches the bottom of the site and another one was not complete. The source said the emergency exit southwest of the site is unreachable. The regime believes the blast was sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised as equipment or in the uranium hexafluoride stock transferred to the site, the source said. The explosion occurred at the third centrifuge chambers, with the high-grade enriched uranium reserves below them. The information was passed on to U.S. officials but has not been verified or denied by the regime or other sources within the regime. Though the news of the explosion has not been independently verified, other sources previously have provided WND with information on plans for covert operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities as an option before going to war. The hope is to avoid a larger-scale conflict. Israel, the U.S. and other allies already have concluded the Islamic regime has crossed its red line in its quest for nuclear weapons, other sources have said.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EX-20130126-38002-IRN

found some supporting evidence though!! 😉

“This mass-hysteria was not my intention at all. I can’t believe how many idiots there are in America. I was shocked by the sheer number of people who actually believed it. I mean, I said that it was only a book, not only right before I started reading it, but also half-way through, and then again at end of it.
People need to read more sc-fi.”

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