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| Officials tell AP Iran has second enrichment plant |
| 2009-09-25 |
| Iran has revealed the existence of a secret uranium-enrichment plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday, a development that could heighten fears about Tehran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon and escalate its diplomatic confrontation with the West. Iran told the agency "that no nuclear material has been introduced into the facility," he said. I.e. There is a third and fourth U235 bomb enrichment plant. "In response, the IAEA has requested Iran to provide specific information and access to the facility as soon as possible." The officials said that Iran's letter contained no details about the location of the second facility, when — or if — it had started operations or the type and number of centrifuges it was running. But one of the officials, who had access to a review of Western intelligence on the issue, said it was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Tehran and was the site of 3,000 centrifuges that could be operational by next year. An August IAEA report said Iran had set up more than 8,000 centrifuges to churn out enriched uranium at its cavernous underground facility outside the southern city of Natanz. The report said that only about 4,600 centrifuges were fully active. |
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