The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a
think-tank which closely tracks Iran's nuclear program, said today that its
analysis of the data recently released by the IAEA shows that Iran has produced
enough low-enriched uranium in the past five years for at lease five nuclear
weapons if refined to weapon-grade purity.
On Friday, the IAEA reported that Iran was pressing ahead with its
uranium enrichment work. IAEA report said Iran has produced 6.2 tons of uranium
enriched to a level of 3.5 percent since 2007, some 759 kg more than in
previous IAEA report in February.
"This total amount of 3.5 percent low enriched uranium
hexafluoride, if further enriched to weapon grade, is enough to make over five
nuclear weapons," ISIS said in its analysis.
Iran began enriching uranium to a fissile concentration of 20 percent
in 2010, saying it needed this to fuel a medical research reactor. It later
expanded the work sharply by launching enrichment at Fordo underground site.
No agreements on scaling back the production of enriched uranium could be reached between Iran and the six
major powers during the Baghdad Talks that ended on Thursday.
Source: Reuters, 26 May 2012
Source: Reuters, 26 May 2012
2 comments:
when was the last time IAEA said anything rational or truthful about Iran.
It was not said by the IAEA, but by some pro Israeli News agency.
Meant to mislead.
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