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"SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Iran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, the U.N. nuclear
agency said Friday — a development that puts Tehran within months of being able to make the core of a nuclear warhead.
The finding also calls into question a tentative new U.S. plan meant to induce Tehran to compromise on its nuclear program by offering a rollback of
crippling new anti-Iran sanctions if Tehran cuts back on enriching uranium to 20 percent.
In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran was ready within days to ramp up its production of 20 percent enriched uranium at its
plant at Fordo using 700 more centrifuges.
That would double Iran's present output and cut in half the time it would take to acquire enough of the substance needed to make a nuclear weapon,
reducing it to just over three months.
Iran says it has no interest in making nuclear arms, just nuclear power for its citizens, but the United States and other nations believe otherwise.
Iran has refused to give up enrichment despite international sanctions and offers of reactor fuel from abroad and for years has stalemated an IAEA
probe of suspicions that it worked secretly on developing such arms."
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#Iran enriched a further 43kg of 20% uranium but fed no more into conversion. Stockpile is now 135 kg, says #IAEA #Israel red line = 240 kg
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Iran increases nuclear enrichment capacity, report says
Iran has finished installing centrifuges at a fortified underground facility and can sharply increase production of enriched uranium to a purity that
can be quickly improved to weapons grade, the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency said Friday in a report likely to stir new concern.
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UN nuclear agency: Iran poised to expand nuke work<
17/11/2012 6:02AM
The U.N nuclear agency says Iran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, _ that puts Tehran
within months of being able to make the core of a nuclear warhead.
The finding also calls into question a tentative new U.S. plan meant to induce Tehran to compromise on its nuclear program by offering a rollback of
crippling new anti-Iran sanctions if Tehran cuts back on enriching uranium to 20 percent. In its report, the International Atomic Energy Agency said
Iran was ready within days to ramp up its production of 20 percent enriched uranium at its plant at Fordo using 700 more centrifuges.
That would double Iran's present output and cut in half the time it would take to acquire enough of the substance needed to make a nuclear weapon,
reducing it to just over three months. Iran says it has no interest in making nuclear arms, just nuclear power for its citizens, but the United States
and other nations believe otherwise.
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Iran ready to double uranium enrichment at Fordo - IAEA
Satellite image provided by GeoEye in September 2009 showing facility under construction inside a mountain some 20 miles (32km) north-east of Qom,
Iran In January, Iran said it had begun uranium enrichment at the heavily fortified Fordo facility
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Iran nuclear crisis
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Ongoing stand-off
UK mulls options
Iran is ready to double the output at its underground uranium enrichment facility, the UN nuclear watchdog says.
A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said there were 2,784 centrifuges at Fordo, and that Iran could soon double the
number operating from 700 to 1,400.
The development is likely to fuel Western suspicions that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
The government in Tehran insists the nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
Talks this year about the uranium enrichment programme between Iran and the so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - have made
little progress.
Bushehr fuel 'removed'
Iran's progress at Fordo was disclosed in a leaked report based on the findings of the IAEA's inspectors, who visit the facility regularly.
While the uranium enrichment plant is not yet fully operational - with only about 700 of the 3,000 centrifuges the facility is designed in use -
experts say it could be within months.
The IAEA report said four new cascades of 174 centrifuges each "having been subjected to vacuum testing, were ready for feeding" with uranium
hexafluoride (UF6) gas.
Once the new cascades were in operation, monthly production of 20%-enriched (medium-enriched) uranium would be about 25kg (55lb) per month, compared
with 15kg at present, one official said.
The facility at Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, is designed to contain 16 cascades
producing medium-enriched uranium, which experts say could be enriched to about 90%, or weapons-grade, in a relatively short time.
The IAEA also revealed in its report that Iran had produced about 233kg (512lb) of higher-grade enriched uranium since 2010, an increase of 43kg since
August.
Earlier this year, the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) used 96kg of its supply of 20%-enriched uranium for conversion into fuel for its
medical research reactor in Tehran. Experts say it would be difficult to turn the fuel into weapons-grade uranium.
Nuclear fuel had also been removed from the core of the nuclear reactor at Bushehr without a reason being given by Iran, the IAEA added.
The report also said that "extensive activities" at the Parchin military site had seriously undermined an investigation into indications that
experiments related to nuclear weapons might have been carried out there. Iran is suspected of attempting to removing evidence.
Iran has denied that there are any nuclear-related activities at Parchin.
The IAEA's report concluded that the agency was "unable... to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities".
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