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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iran 'begins advanced enrichment'

Iran has begun enriching uranium to a purity level of 20 per cent to produce a higher grade of nuclear fuel, state-owned television has reported.

"Today we started to make 20 per cent enriched nuclear fuel ... in the presence of IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors at Natanz," an unnamed official told Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam channel on Tuesday.

Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, had said on Monday that Tehran had informed the UN atomic agency that it would begin enriching the fuel for its Tehran research reactor which produces medical isotopes.

That announcement was met with calls from the United States and its allies for Iran to face "strong sanctions" over its nuclear programme



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 02:13:07 PM EST
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What does 20% enrichment get you ? It's surely way too impure for a bomb.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 06:19:21 PM EST
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What does 20% enrichment get you?

If you can go from 4% to 20% you can go from 20% to 60%. And if you can go from 20% to 60% you can go from 60% to 90%.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 06:34:01 PM EST
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Can you? is it that simple?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 08:49:11 PM EST
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I mean it is just a matter of adding more centrifugues to the machine, right?

If you can go from 1 to 5 centrifugues, what prevents you from going to 25 centrifugues (say)?

Now I wait for Pierre or Francois a Paris to correct my ignorant guess...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 02:14:05 AM EST
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