Does Barack Hussein Obama even care?
VIENNA
– Iran is ready to sharply expand its uranium enrichment in an
underground site after installing all the centrifuges it was built for, a
UN nuclear report showed on Friday, a development likely to fuel
Western alarm over Tehran’s nuclear aims.
The Islamic state has put in place nearly 2,800 centrifuges that the
Fordow enrichment site, buried deep inside a mountain, was designed for
and could soon double the number of them operating to almost 1,400,
according to the confidential International Atomic Energy Agency report
obtained by Reuters.
Tehran has produced about 233 kg (512 pounds) of higher-grade
enriched uranium since 2010, an increase of 43 kg since August this
year, according to the report issued in Vienna.
The Iranians have used 96 kg of the uranium refined to 20 percent of
fissile purity for conversion into fuel for its medical research reactor
in Tehran, the report said.
Such conversions make it harder for the material to be processed into
90 percent, or bomb-grade, enriched uranium and could be a step by
Tehran meant in part to counter Western suspicions of a covert atomic
bomb program.
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