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Iran: Scale of nuclear work is small
2006-02-15
After a two-year break, Iran has resumed nuclear-fuel enrichment on what it called a small scale, stoking a diplomatic showdown with the West. On Tuesday, Iran announced it was deferring until next week talks on a Russian proposal to defuse the standoff. But it gave no sign that it was ready to stop purifying uranium on its own soil. Officials close to the Ineffectual International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday that inspectors observed Iranian scientists putting uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas into a small number of centrifuges. The centrifuge machines can convert uranium into fuel for nuclear reactors or, if enriched to high levels, warheads.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh, director of Iran's atomic programme, was quoted by ISNA students news agency as saying the centrifuge work re-launched at the Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant was on a "small and laboratory scale. Injecting gas into one or a few centrifuges could not be termed enrichment."
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