Posted on 08/31/2007 4:14:12 PM PDT by processing please hold
VIENNA, Aug. 30 — Iran is expanding its nuclear program in defiance of United Nations’ resolutions, even as it has promised to answer questions about an array of suspicious nuclear activities in the past, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.
The assessment by the nuclear agency states that Iran is now simultaneously operating nearly 2,000 centrifuges, the machines that produce enriched uranium, at its vast underground facility at Natanz, an increase of several hundred machines from three months ago. More than 650 additional centrifuges are being tested or are under construction, the agency said.
But the program is running at well below capacity, raising questions about whether Iran is facing technical difficulties or has made a political decision to move more slowly in producing enriched uranium, which can be used to produce electricity or fuel bombs.
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private group in Washington that tracks nuclear proliferation, said his own calculations, based on the report’s data, suggested that Iran was operating its centrifuges at as little as 10 percent of their potential.
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Does it have to come down to this, amthingimigdet?
el baradei ain’t gonna be happy till they have it up and going then it’ll be too late to do anything about it.
An energy bar in more ways than one. lol
How long are we going to wait?
Until we have radar confirmation that they have a bird in the air?
Cool pic. Figuratively speaking.
Other than their actually launching a missile, I don't see us doing anything. They murder our soldiers in Iraq with no consequence for their action.
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