What are the risks of bombing a nuclear site?

American warfare aircraft bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, at the same place, Israeli planes targeted the ongoing war with Iran.

One of the goals was Fordo, a uranium enrichment plant hidden in a remote mountains that is important for Iran’s atomic ambitions.

Major nuclear facilities were also killed in Natanz and Isfahan.

It is not yet clear how much damage was done to the facilities, although the United Nations nuclear guard says that there was no “increase” in off-site radiation levels.

But what do we know about sites, and what are the risk of attacking nuclear features?

IAEA described the Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear amenities as “deepened”.

Last week, its Director General Rafael Gossi stated that military growth “enhances the possibility of a radiological release with serious consequences for people and environment”.

Uranium enrichment sites are used to manufacture a special type of uranium – or isotopes -.

“When you dig up uranium out of the ground, it comes in two forms: 99.3% uranium -238- and 0.7%, or 150 has an atom, uranium -235, and it is what you need to work in your nuclear reactor,” Surrey Universities and UK National Physical Learker’s Professor Paidi Ragan.

The process of nuclear enhancement originally means an increase in the amount of uranium -235.

This is done by taking uranium in the form of its gas and spinning in machines called centrifuge, said.

And because uranium -238 is heavier than the required uranium -235, there are two different as they spin. It is repeated repeatedly to promote enrichment.

Nuclear power stations usually require about 3–5% of this rich uranium to generate a controlled nuclear reaction that releases energy.

But when the objective is to make nuclear weapons, a much higher ratio of uranium -235 is required – about 90%.

Essentially, uranium is more enriched, when all those atoms are divided, the energy burst is large.

IAEA stated that Iran’s uranium had reached approximately 60% of the enrichment – so on the way to a nuclear weapon being focused enough.

But firing a rocket in a properly stocked stockpiles of rich uranium will not be “nuclear phenomena” similar to disasters in nuclear power plants in Fukushima or Chernobol.

Professor Jim Smith of the University Portsmouth University said, “Extremely rich uranium is almost three times more radioactive than non-rich uranium. But in fact, on the scale of things, neither of them are not particularly densely radiative.

“We are more concerned about what fragmentation products are called – things that divide uranium into a reactor or bomb – things like radioactive ceesium, radioactive strontium, radioactive iodine. They are more of an environmental contamination problem.”

But because there is no nuclear response to the enrichment sites – and a blast from a bomb will not trigger one – these dangerous radioactive “fission products” will not be present, he said.

Instead, uranium can be spread locally by an explosion.

IAEA said that the reported after the US attacks “there was no increase in off-site radiation levels”. Last week, when Israel hit Natanz facility, the IAEA found radioactive contamination on the site, but said that the level of radioactivity remained unchanged outside and at the normal level.

“With uranium … radiation doesn’t really travel far away,” Professor Clair Corkhill says, Chairman in Minerals and Radio -Waste Management at Bristol University.

But for people close to the site, health risks can be, he said.

“In terms of poisoning for the human body, you definitely do not want to breathe in uranium particles and you don’t want to swallow them either,” he said.

“This is because uranium particles can be recorded in cells, either inside your lungs or your abdomen, and gradually, radioactively decay, and this will cause damage.”

Also, radioactivity, chemical risk can also be a problem for anyone nearby.

“If an event had happened and to release the centrifuge uranium hexfalloride, a scientist of Bangore University, a scientist Professor Professor, Simon Midilberg, said that it would be a really serious chemical phenomenon, which is within centrifuge.”

“If this uranium hexfluoride comes in contact with moisture in the air, it is really quite corrosive and dirty because it can make it very, very strong acids,” he said.

“But this is not going to have environmental impact beyond the very, very local region.”

IAEA said its incident and emergency center was working around the clock. The United Nations agency said it would provide further assessment on the situation in Iran as more information became available.