IAEA: Iran's nuclear stockpile increasing despite sanctions
Either the IAEA inspectors are complete morons, or more likely, Iran has some secret facilities that no one has uncovered yet. How else could you explain the fact that Iran has enriched 22kg of uranium to the 20% level, most of that in the past three months while it is supposedly constrained by sanctions. The country increased its supply of 20 percent enriched uranium to 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) compared with 5.7 kilograms in May at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant in Natanz, the Vienna-based IAEA said in the report. Iran has produced 2,803 kilograms of uranium enriched to less than 5 percent compared with 2,427 kilograms reported in the IAEA’s May 31 report.What could go wrong?
“The passage of time and the possible deterioration in the availability of some relevant information increases the urgency of this matter,” according to the report. “Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation to permit the Agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”
...
About 630 kilograms of low-enriched uranium could yield the 15 to 22 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium needed by an expert bomb-maker to craft a weapon, according to the London-based Verification Research, Training and Information Center, a non- governmental observer to the IAEA that is funded by European governments.
The IAEA report added that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Teheran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:45 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home