Iran prepares uranium for enrichment
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Iran has confirmed that it has begun processing uranium to prepare it for enrichment, reports Voice of America adding that it is &quot;a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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Iran said yesterday it has processed several tons of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium to prepare it for enrichment - a key step in developing atomic weapons - in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
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Iran defied the United Nations on Tuesday by announcing it would go on converting a large amount of raw uranium to prepare it for enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic bombs.
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Iran is making a uranium powder that is part of the enrichment process that can make nuclear weapons, but this apparently does not violate a nuclear freeze it agreed with the EU, diplomats said Tuesday.
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Iran says it has met its target to have 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium for its nuclear programme.
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TEHRAN, Iran Oct. 18, 2004 - Iran said Monday it is prepared to temporarily suspend some nuclear activities but would not surrender its right to enrich uranium.
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LONDON, Nov 25 (IranMania) - Enrichment, at the heart of the storm surrounding Iran&#39;s nuclear programme, takes low-grade uranium and refines it, turning it into a material that can power civilian reactors -- or an atomic explosion.
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Iran has stored 100 kg of enriched uranium material, its interior minister was quoted on Friday as saying, in comments that may worry Western powers who suspect the Islamic Republic of seeking to build nuclear bombs.
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Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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Iran is producing massive quantities of uranium hexaflouride on the eve of the implementation of an agreement to suspend its nuclear activity, US and Western diplomats said Friday.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Wednesday it has processed several tons of raw "yellowcake" uranium to prepare it for enrichment - a key step in developing atomic weapons - in defiance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency...
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - President Bush on Saturday  warned Iran of growing international concern over reports that  Tehran is preparing large amounts of uranium for an enrichment  process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
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JERUSALEM -- The chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency said yesterday Iran was on the brink of enriching uranium, a process key to building a nuclear bomb.
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Iran has produced more than 220 pounds of enriched uranium, the country's interior minister was quoted Friday as saying about the process that can make fuel for civilian energy or fissile material for a bomb.
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Iran is ready to consider complying &#151; at least temporarily &#151; with a U.N. Security Council demand that it freeze uranium enrichment, which can be used in developing atomic weapons, diplomats told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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Iran&#39;s decision to begin processing 37 tons of uranium yellowcake this month will enable it to acquire enough weapons grade uranium to build up to five nuclear bombs, Western intelligence officials are warning.
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VIENNA: Iran plans to process tonnes of raw uranium and restart its centrifuges - two linked activities that can be part of the manufacture of nuclear warheads, the UN atomic watchdog agency and diplomats said yesterday.