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Iran achieves uranium enrichment near 5 per cent
2006-05-03
TEHERAN - Iran has managed to enrich uranium up to 4.8 per cent purity, the head of the countryÂ’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Tuesday, as envoys of the main world powers met in Paris to discuss how to halt the sensitive nuclear fuel work.

“The latest level of enrichment carried out in Iran has been 4.8 per cent,” Gholam Reza Aghazadeh told the ISNA student news agency. “Enrichment of more than five per cent is not on Iran’s agenda and this level suffices for making nuclear fuel.”
Until they decide to make a bomb, which they decided about ... ten years ago.
Aghazadeh reiterated that Iran plans to upgrade its enrichment facilities. “Construction work and preparation of centrifuge machines are being done to create a 3,000-centrifuge cascade,” he said. At present Iran is using a cascade of 164 centrifuges installed at a pilot plant in Natanz.
Posted by:Steve White

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