Iran expands uranium enrichment program
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that his country has expanded its contentious uranium enrichment program at a plant in central Iran, a semi-official news agency reported.
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Iran has produced several tons of uranium hexafluoride, a compound used in uranium enrichment, the head of Iran&#39;s delegation to the Internation Atomic Energy Agency (IEAE), Hussein Musavian, announced Wednesday.
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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 has slowed the expansion of its disputed uranium enrichment program, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, after Western powers threatened to hit Tehran with harsher sanctions.
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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 expanding its nuclear program in defiance of United Nationsâ resolutions, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.
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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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Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon?
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Shrugging off the threat of tougher U.N. sanctions, Iran has set up more than 300 centrifuges in two uranium enrichment units at its underground Natanz complex, diplomats and officials said Monday.
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Defying a U.N., Iran began enriching uranium for what it says is a power project, but the gas could be refined to use for bombs.
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Description: Iran says it will continue tests that could eventually provide it with enriched uranium, the key element in a nuclear weapon.
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The United States is responding carefully to Iran&#39;s announcement that it has taken a major step toward enriching uranium, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
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VIENNA: Iran defied the UN yesterday by announcing it has begun 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 substantial advances in uranium enrichment in defiance of world demands, U.N. monitors said on Wednesday, opening the way to harsher sanctions against Tehran over fears it is seeking atom bombs.
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TEHRAN, Iran Oct. 6, 2004 - Iran has converted a few tons of raw uranium into hexafluoride gas needed for enrichment, a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons, a top nuclear official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Iran has secretly revived a program to enrich uranium using laser technology, reportedly with favorable results, an Iranian opposition figure said Thursday citing information from members of the resistance inside the country.
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(CBS/AP) Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.