Iran announced today it has nearly doubled its stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium within the past four months. The country now has some 30 kilograms, or 66 pounds, of the 20-percent grade enriched uranium, as opposed to only 17 kilograms in June. Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi made the announcement in Tehran.
Iran’s refusal to stop enriching uranium has subjected the country to four sets of UN sanctions, as well additional economic and financial sanctions imposed by the US, the EU and other pro-Western countries.
The next step for Iran is converting the 20-percent enriched uranium into fuel rods for use at its research reactor in Tehran. Iran claims it has the technology to produce fuel rods, a capability very few nations possess. The government has said its first fuel rod should be ready within a year.
The technologies to produce high-percentage enriched uranium and fuel rods are at the heart of a country’s capability to produce nuclear weapons. But Iran has repeatedly denied it intends to produce the bomb.
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If Iran is able to fuel its TRR reactor on its own, it will be its greatest national achievement since acquiring the technology to enrich enrichment.
Go Iran!
"The technologies to produce high-percentage enriched uranium and fuel rods are at the heart of a country’s capability to produce nuclear weapons."
So what ? Those technologies are in the first place at the heart of a country's capability to run nuclear reactors which in turn will produce medical radio-nuclides or electric power.
Fox news claimed (Iran doubles its highly enriched Uranium) with a threatening undertone
thats why the west is not trusrworthy with its news anymore
They imply too much and fear to be objective.
illuminati
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