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| Highly enriched uranium found in Iran |
| 2006-09-01 |
| UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency told the U.N. Security Council its inspectors have found new traces of enriched uranium in Iran. The discovery marked the third instance that highly enriched uranium was found at an Iranian facility, but the IAEA said the nuclear fingerprint on the new discovery does not match that found on earlier samples, which the agency had concluded came from contaminated equipment from Pakistan, The New York Times reported Friday. The 6-page IAEA report did not identify where the uranium might have originated or whether it was connected to a secret nuclear program in Iran. The country has insisted that its nuclear program is aimed only at producing energy, a task that would use uranium enriched at much lower levels than that found by the IAEA inspectors. The report said that Iran was continuing to produce enriched uranium at low levels and on a small scale at its Natanz facility. The Security Council had set Thursday as a deadline for Iran to discontinue enrichment, and a failure to comply by the country could result in economic and political penalties. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #6 It's cold consolation that we might finally have obtained an isotopic fingerprint of refined Iranian fissile material. It's probably very easy to make a one-off batch to throw investigators off. Iran got busted for this quite a while ago. They claimed it was a little experiment, with the implication being they wouldn't need to do it again. So why are they doing it again? Oh, wait. That's already been answered I see . . . . |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-09-01 15:29 |
| #5 Popcorn! Yahoo another popcorn day. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-09-01 15:12 |
| #4 Highly enriched uranium, good for poppin popcorn no doubt |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-01 14:14 |
| #3 Darrell, if you've been reading any of my other related posts, then you must certainly know that Natanz is just one of many sites on my personal Christmas list. Does anyone here know if the IAEA was ever able to gather any sort of samples from North Korea before they were ejected? If so, then we would also be able to trace a proxy supply of fissile material from Kim. The end result being two countries glassed for the price of one. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 13:40 |
| #2 Don't assume that Natanz is the only place where they are operating centrifuges, and don't assume that home-based enrichment is their only source of bomb material. Kimmie has enough to sell some, especially to enemies of his enemies. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-09-01 13:34 |
| #1 Lies, all lies, every single d@mn thing the Iranians have ever told us. Natanz had better be a wasteland the second after polls close in November. It's cold consolation that we might finally have obtained an isotopic fingerprint of refined Iranian fissile material. That way, we'll know if Iran contributed a nuclear weapon for use against an American city. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 13:06 |