I’ve written before about the dangerous consequences of an Israeli raid on Iran’s nascent nuclear program.  That danger just got a bit more clear and present now that it was reported that Iran now controls the entire cycle for producing nuclear fuel.  It seems they’ve opened of a new facility to produce uranium fuel pellets.
Officially the development is presented as simply producing uranium oxide pellets for a planned 40-megawatt heavy-water nuclear reactor near the town of Arak, in central Iran.
Since Israel is convinced Iranian production of nuclear fuel pellets masks a nuclear weapons program they are now even more likely to launch a first strike against the facilities in order to slow or derail the program.
But bad as that might seem, this is not the problem.  The real problem is the huge amount of radioactive dust and debris that such a strike would throw up into the atmosphere and high altitude wind currents which can carry this dangerous material around the world.
If you haven’t already bought a Geiger counter, now might be a good time.  Radioactive particulate that enters the jet stream, can circumnavigate the globe in less than 48 hours and if ingested, can lead to life threatening illness and disability.
Could we see Obama’s first true international crisis as early as July?  With the world as it is nowadays and a young inexperienced President, anything can happen!