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How many nuclear power plants do they have in Iraq exactly? I don't think there are very many. With 50 tons of yellowcake I think its a bit naive to think it was obtained for any reason other than enrichment and weaponization. This of course doesn't mean there was an active program but it certainly shows that Saddam had the desire.

Either way, the article doesn't really contain any major new info other then that it has all been removed, it was pretty clear he had yellowcake based on the info we had already. The only reason that people should be really surprised by this is if they bought into the idea that Saddam was never trying to get nukes. Its pretty obvious that he was at some point.

None to my knowledge. They had an expiermental one but i think it was shut down by Israeli bombings

Since they aren't aloud to enrich uranium and if they did have a power plant would of only been allowed to use Russian Uranium in it's reactors it really only could be used for weapons purposes when enriched.

Just like their biological weapons programs they were researching and doing little else, waiting for the right time to build stockpiles.

OMG .. so its true , the reason for the US top attack wasnt oil afther all :O Man , now president Bush is my hero :P

I don't understand why they would be so concerned with keeping this stuff away from iran for example.  If anybody desired the substance enough they could extract it from seawater.  There is approximatly 3mg of uranium in every cubic meter of seawater on the planet.  You can extract heavy metals from water with bundles of clothes made out of synthetic fibers such as nylon which have had hemiaminal functional groups attached to them.

hemiaminal group

It just costs 15+ times as much as it does to dig the uranium out of the ground.

Well we've known they've had that yellow cake uranium way before the war started.

That much has never been in doubt.