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Iran defies IAEA with plans for new nuclear enrichment plants

NOV 30, 2009
Physics Today

The Guardian : Iran has sent a defiant signal to the international community by announcing plans to build 10 uranium enrichment plants days after it was condemned by the United Nations for concealing activities that are feared may be designed to produce an atomic bomb.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government said the plants would be the same size as the main enrichment complex at Natanz, central Iran, and work would begin within two months.

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