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Iran says it has produced 20kg of enriched uranium | | Iran has said it has produced around 20 kilograms of 20 per cent enriched uranium, in defiance of the world
powers who want them to suspend the controversial nuclear work. According to a
report in The Telegraph, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the refining
of uranium to 20 per cent after a swap deal, aimed at providing nuclear fuel for
the Tehran reactor and drafted by the UN atomic body in October, hit a deadlock.
"We have produced around 20 kilograms of 20 per cent enriched uranium and we are
working to produce the (fuel) plates," Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi was
quoted as telling the ISNA news agency. On Sunday, Salehi reiterated his previous
claim that by September next year Iran will on its own "deliver the fuel for the
Tehran research reactor." He had previously said that Iran has acquired the technical
know-how to make the actual fuel plates, which power the reactor, a claim dismissed
by Western powers. World powers led by Washington want Tehran to suspend its uranium
enrichment activity that they suspect masks a nuclear weapons drive. On June 9,
they backed a UN Security Council resolution for a fourth set of sanctions on
Iran. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel to power nuclear reactors as well as
to make the fissile core of an atom bomb. Western powers say Iran does not possess
the technology required to convert the 20 per cent enriched uranium into fuel
plates for powering the reactor. |
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