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| Iran building another Uranium enrichment plant | |
| 2009-09-25 | |
| PITTSBURGH -- The government of Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is building a previously undisclosed uranium enrichment plant. White House officials said Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years.
Iran acknowledged its third facility in a Sept. 21 letter to the IAEA which stated "that a new pilot fuel enrichment plant is under construction in the country," agency spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. "The letter stated that the enrichment level would be up to 5 percent." Also fwiw, the Bushehr plant is, per public affairs announcements, about 96% complete as of earlier this month. The global standoff over Iran's nuclear program began in 2002 with the discovery of two large nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak, with the Natanz facility devoted to uranium enrichment. In Arak, a plutonium-fuel reactor was being constructed. U.S. intelligence had secretly provided the geographical coordinates of the facilities to the IAEA three months before an Iranian exile group drew attention to the facilities at an August news conference in Washington. The public exposure led to demands that IAEA inspect the facilities, which it did in 2003, and ultimately to Iran's admission that it had kept its nuclear program hidden for 18 years in violation of an international treaty. | |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #1 They're gonna keep pushing until somebody pushes back. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-09-25 11:32 |