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| IAEA: Iran Has More Machines, Making More Enriched Uranium Than Admitted |
| 2012-05-26 |
| [Jerusalem Post] - Iran has raised its potential capacity to make sensitive nuclear material by installing hundreds more uranium enrichment machines at an underground site, a UN watchdog report said, a day after world powers failed to convince Tehran to halt such activity. The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency also said on Friday satellite images show "extensive activities" at the Parchin military complex which inspectors want to check over suspicions that nuclear weapons-relevant research was done there. Obtained by Rooters, the confidential report further said inspectors had found traces of uranium particles enriched to up to 27 percent at Iran's bunkered Fordow site, compared with the 20 percent level Tehran has officially reported to the IAEA. Nuclear bombs require uranium enriched to 90 percent, but much of the effort required to get there is already achieved once it reaches 20 percent concentration, shortening the time needed for any nuclear weapons "break-out." Obtained by Rooters, the confidential report further said inspectors had found traces of uranium particles enriched to up to 27 percent at Iran's bunkered Fordow site, compared with the 20 percent level Tehran has officially reported to the IAEA. The quarterly report added that Iran had hooked up 368 new centrifuges in Fordow, a 50 percent increase in numbers, but that these were not yet being fed with material for enrichment. Nuclear bombs require uranium enriched to 90 percent, but much of the effort required to get there is already achieved once it reaches 20 percent concentration, shortening the time needed for any nuclear weapons "break-out." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN: WHAT DOES 27% [Enrichment] MEAN? and * GUARDIAN.UK > IRAN HAS ENOUGH [stockpiled] URANIUM FOR FIVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, CLAIMS US THINKTANK [ISIS]. Not enuff to defeat the US Fifth Fleet per se, but enough to put the nervous willys into some powerful US Congresscritters, as per thingys that go boom on Iran's beachhead(s). |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-05-26 22:50 |