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IAEA: Iran is capable of making nuclear weapon in 6-months

2010-02-20 16:23 BJT

 

Iran has long been at the center of international concerns, over its controversial nuclear plan. The IAEA report further proved that Iran is capable of making a nuclear weapon.

It confirmed that Iran has refined nearly 2 tons of low-enriched uranium to the purity of 20-percent. That's a critical development. The report says the next step, purifying from 20 to 90 percent, would take just six months.

Iran has increased its low-enriched uranium stockpile by more than six times. And the current storage is enough for one or two nuclear bombs, if enriched to 90 percent purity.

Last October, the IAEA called for Iran to ship out 75 percent of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to Russia, for higher enrichment.

From there it would go to France to be turned into fuel rods for the reactor. But Iran didn't accept the proposal.

Yukiya Amano, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency attends a board of governors meeting in Vienna on February 12. (AFP/File)

Yukiya Amano, chief of the International
Atomic Energy Agency attends a board of
governors meeting in Vienna on February
12. (AFP/File)

 

Editor: Zhang Pengfei | Source: CCTV.com