Reuters: EXCLUSIVE-Iran expands nuclear centrifuge programme-diplomats

[Eugene]

EXCLUSIVE-Iran expands nuclear centrifuge programme-diplomats
Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:53am ET

By Mark Heinrich

VIENNA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Iran has launched a second batch of centrifuges
at its pilot nuclear fuel plant despite possible U.N. Security Council
sanctions, diplomats said.

Tehran fired up the new cascade of 164 interconnected centrifuges, which can
enrich uranium for either power plant or nuclear bomb fuel, earlier this month
to go with an initial network of 164, they said.

But Iran appeared to be only testing the second cascade, without feeding "UF6"
uranium gas into it, as it has generally done with the first cascade, which
first yielded a tiny amount of home-grown enriched uranium in April.

A senior diplomat familiar with U.N. nuclear inspections in Iran said Tehran
remained a long way from "industrial scale" capacity that would signal its
emergence as a nuclear power, as North Korea showed on Oct. 9 by detonating
an atomic device.

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Full article: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nL23252174&imageid=&cap=&from=business

Also: Ahmadinejad: Iran's Nuke Capability Up - AP

[Laughing Mirror]

1. Iran has just as much right to go nuclear as anybody else

And that's that.

[stepnw1f]

2. and Still the Neo-Cons Have NO PROOF

they are seeking nukes for missiles.... just bullshit propaganda like they were spreading about Sadam having WMD's. I want all these assholes locked for crimes against the World.

[bobbie]

3. Well the US regime is clearly beating the war drums

Iran is next, and I've read reports that the BFEE will go nuclear on them.

[Parche]

4. Iran , Iwalk

I heard from Bush and Cheney that they had aluminum tubes for that centrifuge.................


Where have we heard that before..........

[Kagemusha]

5. 164 more, THOUSANDS to go

Oh please.