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| 'Iran's centrifuges processing gas' |
| 2008-02-14 |
| Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The diplomats emphasized that the centrifuges were working with only minute amounts of the uranium gas used as the feed stock for Iran's uranium enrichment program. And one of them said Teheran had set up only 10 of the machines - far too few to produce enriched uranium in the quantities needed for an industrial scale energy or a weapons program. Still, the information revealed previously unknown details of the state of the Islamic Republic's experiments with its domestically developed IR-2 centrifuges, which can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate of the machines that now form the backbone of its nuclear project. The existence of the IR-2 was made known only last week by diplomats accredited to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency probing Iran's nuclear program for suspicions it may have been designed to make weapons. But diplomats back then told the AP that the machines appeared to be running empty and could not quantify the number of the centrifuges had been set up at the experimental facility linked to Iran's growing enrichment underground enrichment plant at Natanz. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I hope these Iranian blokes are stocking up on petrol and candles. Something tells me their energy infrastructure is about to devolve 35-50 years very, very soon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-02-14 02:59 |
| #1 Get them all turning at the same time and drop one of them new bunker-busters somewhere nearby and see how well they operate after that. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-02-14 02:23 |