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| Iran president says ready for nuclear talks |
| 2009-04-09 |
| The single point of negotiations: How quickly will Obama disarm the USA. Iran's president said Thursday his country is open to talks offered by the U.S. and other countries over its nuclear program. But he insisted the talks must be based on respect for Iran's rights, suggesting the West should not try to force Tehran to stop uranium enrichment. Hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comments during celebrations for Iran's Nuclear Day, in which a number of advances in Iran's nuclear program were announced. Among them, officials said the number of centrifuges at Iran's uranium enrichment facility had increased to 7,000 — up from 6,000 announced in February — and that a new, more advanced type of centrifuge had been tested. Ahmadinejad also announced the opening of a new plant for developing uranium fuel for a planned hard-water reactor. ... Ahmadinejad said the new centrifuge has been tested, and has several times more capacity more than the P-1 centrifuges currently used at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran. Neither gave details on the new centrifuge or said when it might be brought into use. Ahmadinejad also said the country has inaugurated a new facility producing uranium fuel for a heavy-water nuclear reactor that is under construction in the town of Arak and is expected to be completed in 2009 or 2010. Heavy-water reactors use a different process than light-water ones, but has its own nuclear proliferation concerns. The West fears that Iran could eventually reprocess spent fuel from the heavy-water reactor to produce plutonium for a warhead. Iran has been building the 40-megawatt hard(heavy)-water reactor in the central town of Arak for the past four years. Hard-water reactors do not need enriched uranium for fuel, and can instead use more easily produced uranium oxide ore, fashioned into pellets. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 Most likely they have reached the stage they wanted to ie nuclear bomb capability so talks are easier now!!!! |
| Posted by: Paul2 2009-04-09 12:26 |