Iran announces second uranium enrichment site
JAN 09, 2012
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025806
New York Times : A second major uranium enrichment site will begin production at the underground Fordo plant near the city of Qum, according to Fereydoon Abbasi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. Iran has exaggerated its abilities in the past, but inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in December that during a visit to the plant, they saw the finishing touches put on enrichment centrifuges and said they expected the facility to be operating soon. Regular inspections of the plant mean that any attempt to produce weapons-grade uranium would probably be detected, unless the inspectors were barred from the site or somehow deceived. If inspectors did detect such efforts, US officials would have between six months and a year to react before the enrichment was complete.
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