Iran to significantly increase its highly enriched uranium, IAEA warns

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Posted on 12/07/2024 8:17:24 AM PST by Eleutheria5

Iran intends to "significantly increase" its production of highly enriched uranium, according to a confidential report released Friday by the UN nuclear watchdog and seen by the AFP news agency.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report noted that updates to the design of Iran's Fordow facility would "significantly increase the rate of production of uranium enriched up to 60 percent."

The new production rate is expected to exceed 34 kilograms of highly enriched uranium per month, a substantial jump from the previous rate of 4.7 kilograms.

In its report, the IAEA urged Iran to allow inspections "as a matter of urgency." These inspections, the agency emphasized, are crucial to "provide timely and technically credible assurances that the facility is not being misused to produce uranium of an enrichment level higher than that declared by Iran, and that there is no diversion of declared nuclear material."

Meanwhile, in an interview with Reuters on Friday, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated that Iran is "dramatically" increasing its capacity to produce uranium enriched to up to 60% purity. This level is close to the 90% threshold considered weapons-grade.

According to IAEA assessments, Iran already possesses enough uranium enriched to 60%, its highest level so far, to produce four nuclear weapons if it were further enriched. Additionally, its lower-enrichment stockpiles could yield even more.

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How reassuring. IAEA is on the job./s

1 posted on 12/07/2024 8:17:24 AM PST by Eleutheria5

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2 posted on 12/07/2024 8:22:07 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")

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