Iran begins converting uranium
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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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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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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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VIENNA -- Defying the international community, Iran has sharply upgraded its capacity to enrich uranium in recent months while the outside world's access to and grasp of Iran's nuclear program "has deteriorated," according to a unusually blunt report yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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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.
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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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VIENNA - Shrugging off an ultimatum from the United Nations nuclear agency, Iran revealed yesterday that it had started converting tons of raw uranium as part of a process that could be used to make nuclear arms.
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Defying UN agency orders, Iran starts to enrich uranium. Is it for energy or a weapon?
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An Iranian exile group said today Iran had taken steps to &#39;&#39;sanitise&#39;&#39; a military plant where it said Tehran had been making bomb-grade uranium for use in nuclear weapons.
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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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Iran has agreed to suspend its uranium conversion programme from next week as part of a deal with European leaders. Hassan Rohani, Iran&#39;s chief nuclear negotiator, said that Iran still wants to adopt a full
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Iran's first atomic power plant will start operating in mid-2008, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday, two days after the country received a second delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia.
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LONDON, Oct 6 (IranMania) - Iran is continuing to convert uranium mineral into the feedstock for enriching uranium, a top official said Wednesday, despite a demand from the UN&#39;s nuclear watchdog for such activities to be halted.
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Iran has agreed to a full suspension of uranium enrichment in an effort to avoid referral to the UN Security Council. Diplomats are waiting for a formal letter to arrive from Tehran.
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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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VIENNA, Sept 21: 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.