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2024-11-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran plans new uranium-enrichment expansion with 6,000 more centrifuges — IAEA report
[IsraelTimes] Tehran says the move is a response to a resolution passed against it by the nuclear watchdog’s Board of Governors last week

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has informed the UN nuclear watchdog that it plans to install more than 6,000 extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its enrichment plants and bring more of those already in place online, a confidential report by the watchdog said on Thursday.

The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency report seen by Rooters details what Iran meant when it said it would add thousands of centrifuges in response to a resolution against it that the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed last week at the request of Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and the United States.

More enrichment capacity means Iran can enrich uranium more quickly, potentially increasing the nuclear proliferation risk. Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons but Western powers say there is no civil explanation for enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, which no other country has done without producing a nuclear bomb.

The only enrichment level specified for new centrifuges was 5% purity, far from the 60% Iran is already producing. The lower purity, particularly at its Fordow site, could be seen as a conciliatory move by Iran as it seeks common ground with European powers before the return of US President-elect Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, though enrichment levels can be changed easily later.

Iran already has well over 10,000 centrifuges operating at two underground plants at Natanz and Fordow and an above-ground pilot plant at Natanz. The report outlined plans to install 32 more cascades, or clusters, of more than 160 machines each and a massive cascade of up to 1,152 advanced IR-6 machines.

At the same time, the number of cascades Iran plans to install vastly outnumbers those that are already installed and that Iran said it would now bring online by feeding them with uranium feedstock, which the IAEA verified it had yet to do.

"The Agency has determined and shared with Iran the changes required to the intensity of its inspection activities at FFEP (Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant) following the commissioning of the cascades," the report said, referring to Iran’s plan to bring eight recently installed IR-6 cascades there online.

Fordow is particularly closely watched because it is dug into a mountain and Iran is currently enriching to up to 60% there. The only other plant where it is doing that is the above-ground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz.

Just before last week’s quarterly meeting of the IAEA board, Iran offered to cap its stock of uranium enriched to up to 60%, but diplomats said it was conditional on the board not passing a resolution against Iran.

Although the IAEA verified Iran was slowing enrichment at that highest level and called it "a concrete step in the right direction," the board passed the resolution regardless, repeating a call on Iran to improve cooperation with the IAEA.

Thursday’s report said Iran had finished installing the last two cascades of IR-2m centrifuges in a batch of 18 at its vast underground Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz, and that it planned to bring all 18 online, though the IAEA verified on Nov. 26 that no uranium had been fed into them.

Iran also told the agency it intended to install 18 extra cascades of IR-4 centrifuges at that Natanz plant, each with 166 machines, the report said.

At the above-ground pilot plant at Natanz, Iran informed the IAEA it planned to take various steps that suggested it would increase the number of full, rather than small or intermediate, cascades there, which could produce more enriched uranium.

It also said it planned to install one cascade of up to 1,152 IR-6 centrifuges at that pilot plant, which could be the biggest cascade by far in Iran yet.

British and French intelligence chiefs on Friday expressed concern over Iran’s nuclear program, as European officials met with senior diplomats from Tehran for talks on the matter.

In a speech in Gay Paree, the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence chief said Iran’s nuclear ambitions pose a major global security threat, even after setbacks dealt to its terror group allies Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
and Hezbollah by Israel.

"Iran’s allied militias across the Middle East have suffered serious blows," said Secret Intelligence Service chief Richard Moore. "But the regime’s nuclear ambitions continue to threaten all of us."

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

the head of La Belle France’s intelligence service said the risk of Iranian nuclear proliferation is a serious threat in the coming months and Britannia and La Belle France are working out strategies to prepare for such an event.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

Iran, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany have agreed to continue diplomatic dialogue "in the near future," the German foreign ministry and the high-level diplomats representing La Belle France and Britannia and Iran said separately on X after Friday talks on Tehran’s nuclear program.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-11-30 2024-11-30 00:35|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top
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#1 ...6,000 more centrifuges ...

Made by our favorite pager manufacturer?
Posted by Mercutio 2024-11-30 09:04||   2024-11-30 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Be interesting to know from whom the units are acquired.

Should be a good 'target' for sanctions.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-30 09:23||   2024-11-30 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref: IR-6 Centrifuges

BTW: a Web search on "IR-6 centrifuge manufacturer" produce little info. It is like the data has been scrubbed from the Net?
Posted by Nn2N1 2024-11-30 16:29||   2024-11-30 16:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I found the "Operating Parameters" in Hebrew if it helps. Oh, wait. They're gone
;-)
Posted by Frank G 2024-11-30 18:17||   2024-11-30 18:17|| Front Page Top

#5 One such and remotely possible vendor is:

ETC Ltd
With locations in the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, France and USA . See their collection of U-235/238 centrifuges.


ETC’s gas centrifuge enrichment process uses a large number of rotating cylinders (like the Iranian setup) which are interconnected.

IF this is the vendor, then it seems the EU & USA have been selling the equipment to the Iranians to make it possible for them to nuke non-Islamic nations.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-11-30 18:31||   2024-11-30 18:31|| Front Page Top

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