Iran Claims 3,000 New Uranium Centrifuges
Iran has added 3,000 new-model uranium enrichment centrifuges at its
Natanz complex, increasing its low-enriched uranium manufacturing rate
by half, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday (see GSN, Feb. 14).The Natanz site now contains 9,000 operational enrichment machines, Iran's Press TV quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. The United States and its allies have expressed concern that Iran could tap the enrichment process to generate nuclear-weapon material, but Tehran has insisted it would only produce atomic fuel for civilian applications (Press TV I, Feb. 15).
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