A top Iranian official say the country now has 4,000 working nuclear centrifuges.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheik Attar made the claim to Iranian state media Friday, saying another 3,000 centrifuges will soon be installed at Iran’s main nuclear site in Natanz.
The centrifuges could significantly boost Iran’s ability to produce enriched uranium.
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Iran’s president said Saturday his country now possesses 6,000 centrifuges, a significant increase in its nuclear program that is certain to further rankle the United States and others who fear Tehran is intent on developing weapons.
The new figure is double the 3,000 uranium-enriching machines Iran had previously said it was operating.
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Iran’s leaders have worked to pursue nuclear energy technology since the 1950s, spurred by the launch of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program. It made steady progress, with Western help, through the early 1970s. But concern over Iranian intentions followed by the upheaval of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 effectively ended outside [...]

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Yellowcakes (also called urania) are uranium concentrates obtained from leach solutions. They represent an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. Yellowcake concentrates are prepared by various extraction and refining methods, depending on the types of ores. Typically yellowcakes are obtained through the milling and chemical processing of uranium ore forming a coarse powder [...]

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Will Israel attack Iran? I see the probability of an Israeli attack at less than 50% with the Olmert government.
Olmert knows he needs to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons, but he just doesn’t have the will to pull off an attack on Iran.
The bottom line - we need to wait for a new Israeli [...]

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Meanwhile experts believe Iran will be able to produce inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of reaching Europe, and possibly America, by 2015. Some intelligence reports suggest Iran will have obtained the amount of uranium needed for a nuclear weapon much sooner.
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Connecting the Dots
The articles below show Iran developing the technology to enrich uranium, build a [...]

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“U.S. officials are downplaying reports in the New York Times and Washington Post that Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan may have given Iran–and other nations–blueprints for a miniature nuclear warhead first developed for his country’s program.”
Oh really! The same network that provided Iran and North Korea with the technology to enrich uranium has plans for a miniturized [...]

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‘If We Fail, Humanity’s Survival Will Be on the Line’
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks to SPIEGEL about Israel’s propensity for unilateral action against countries like Syria, the US’s tendency to keep the IAEA in the dark and the threat of nuclear terrorism. more…

Photo Gallery: The Growing Nuclear Threat
Alarming Test Results: Iran Could Have Enough [...]

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Their political leaders and military planners seem impervious to the fact that a war between Pakistan and India in which each used only five of their nuclear weapons on the other’s cities could kill several million people and injure many more. The effects of a nuclear war could be much worse if India and Pakistan [...]

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The government claimed that three computers seized after the raid showed that the guerillas were looking to acquire uranium in order to make a dirty bomb.
While depleted uranium cannot be used to make a nuclear weapon, it could be mixed with explosives to spread radiological material.
The government also said the computers showed that Venezuela and [...]

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Iran’s new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Diplomats described the IR-2 as a hybrid of the P-2 centrifuge once peddled on the black market by A.Q. Khan, the scientist who [...]

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At the end of the summer, Russia dictator Vladimir Putin traveled to Australia to meet with Prime Minister John Howard, a close ally of U.S. President George Bush, in order to beg for a deal allowing Russia to purchase “yellowcake” uranium from Oz’s vast brick road of the stuff to fuel Russia’s nuclear reactors. Rich [...]

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SYDNEY (AFP) — Russia on Friday joined a rush by nuclear powers for access to Australia’s huge uranium reserves as President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark deal to import the strategic fuel.
The agreement he signed with Prime Minister John Howard came just months after Australia ratified a deal to sell uranium to China to [...]

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China is missing some Uranium and they have no idea where it has gone.
Seventeen pounds of highly radioactive uranium was stolen in an attempt to resell the deadly element on the black market.
Four Chinese citizens have been charged with an attempt to sell enriched uranium between 2005 and 2007. The men were arrested in [...]

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Australia possesses almost 40% of the world’s known low-cost reserves of uranium.
And ore from Australia’s three operating mines supplies about a quarter of the world’s uranium-oxide exports. Until now all this has gone to countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This ensures, in theory, that they will use it to produce electricity [...]

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Iran warned yesterday that it would consider taking “illegal” steps, including possible abrogation of the non-proliferation treaty, if further UN sanctions are imposed because of its nuclear programme.
The warning was given by a senior Iranian official in an increasingly fraught war of nerves with the US and its allies over Iran’s enrichment of uranium.
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Trading at $7 a pound in 2001, “yellowcake,” as it is called, hit $120 a pound in May. By the end of June it raked in as much as $138 a pound on the spot market.
The surging price has lured more than two dozen companies with mining expertise to the high-desert uranium fields here in [...]

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Most investors have no idea that there is currently a mad speculative scramble going on in the commodities markets over the future price of uranium. Yellowcake, the raw unrefined uranium oxide from mines, has jumped from $10 per pound five years ago to $138 per pound recently. A year ago, yellowcake was selling for $45 [...]

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AUSTRALIA is set to strike a controversial nuclear deal with Russia.
Uranium from Australian mines could be powering Russian nuclear plants by the end of the year, Federal Government officials have revealed.
The Howard Government is close to finalising a nuclear treaty with Vladimir Putin’s regime to allow exports of Australian yellowcake and possibly enriched uranium.
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MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - A top Russian nuclear expert said Monday the world price for raw uranium may continue growing at the same pace as in past years, driving prices up at least 10 times more.
“The price of raw uranium has grown 15 times in the past years, from $20 to $300 per [...]

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BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China’s uranium demand is expected to grow 4-6 times by 2020, as the country increases its annual installed nuclear power capacity to 40 mln kilowatts from 9 mln at present, a government official said.
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