A Defiant Iran Starts Enriching Uranium
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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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VIENNA - The head of Iran&#39;s Atomic Energy Organization said Tuesday his nation has begun converting large amounts of raw &quot;yellowcake&quot; uranium and has successfully produced uranium hexafluoride, a feed material for enrichment centrifuges.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had processed  several tons of raw "yellowcake" uranium to prepare it for  enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic weapons  -- in defiance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
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Iran said on Wednesday it had processed several tons of raw "yellowcake" uranium to prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic weapons -- in defiance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
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TEHRAN : President Mohammad Khatami asserted that Iran would not give up its plan to enrich uranium, despite international pressure for it to abandon the sensitive nuclear activity.
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Iran on Tuesday refused to suspend uranium enrichment and asked the European Union (EU) to take confidence-building moves. &quot;Iran cannot be forced to discontinue enrichment process
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TEHRAN (Agencies) -- Iran began processing uranium just more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
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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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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has produced "a few tons" of the gas needed to enrich uranium, a top nuclear official said Wednesday, confirming the country has defied international demands and taken a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel - or nuclear weapons.    Uranium hexafluoride gas is the material that, in the next stage, is fed into centrifuges used to enrich uranium...
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VIENNA, Austria - 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.   "Tests are going on successfully" to make uranium hexafluoride gas, the feed stock for enrichment, said Iranian Vice President Reza Aghazadeh...
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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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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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TEHRAN, Oct 19  - A top Iranian nuclear official reiterated Tuesday his government&#39;s assertion that it wants to enrich uranium to provide fuel for its future nuclear power plants.
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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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VIENNA, OCTOBER 6: Iran began processing uranium more than a week ago to prepare it for enrichment - a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons â-n defiance of the United Nationsâ nuclear watchdog, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
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Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon? By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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TEHRAN : Iran refused to give up on producing enriched uranium in defiance of the West and said dialogue was the only way to resolve the nuclear standoff, on the eve of talks with the EU&#39;s Big Three.