Iran Uranium at Level to Fuel Reactors

[DRoseDARs]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060503/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear

Iran Uranium at Level to Fuel Reactors

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran -
Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday that Iran has enriched uranium up to 4.8 percent — the upper end of the range needed to make fuel for reactors — as it continues to defy U.S. and European demands to stop enrichment.

The announcement by nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh tops Iran's declaration last month that it had surpassed the 3.6 percent purity level. Uranium enriched to between 3.5 and 5 percent is used to make fuel for reactors to generate electricity.

Enriched to more than 90 percent, it becomes suitable for use in nuclear weapons. Aghazadeh added that Iran has no intention of enriching uranium beyond 5 percent.

International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna, Austria, said they had no information about the claim. The agency — whose inspection powers have been curtailed in recent months by Iran — said in a report sent to the
U.N. Security Council on Friday that Iran's claim to have enriched small amounts to a level of 3.6 percent appeared to be true according to initial analysis of samples it took.

Wednesday's announcement, if true, is significant because it shows that Iran continues to enrich uranium in defiance of the Security Council, which asked Tehran last month to cease all such activity because of fears it could be misused to make nuclear arms.

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[wakeme2008]

1. If this is true and I have no reason to believe it's not

The IAEA should be happy and the EU happy. The only ppl not happy is Bush/Bolton and friends.

[One Honest Guy]

2. Faster they get those reactors online, the better

for the Iranians. Israel and/or US bombing facilities of an active nuclear power plant would be a PR disaster. Israelis know it, Americans know it, and Iranians know it.