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Article: Diplomats: Iran Using Gas in New Centrifuges
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 14, 2008
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Iran's new-generation advanced centrifuges have begun processing
small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile
core of nuclear warheads, diplomats said Wednesday.
The diplomats emphasized that the centrifuges were working with
minute amounts of uranium gas. One diplomat said Tehran has set up
only 10 of the machines -- far too few to make enriched uranium in
the quantities needed for an industrial-scale energy or weapons
program.
Still, the information revealed details about Iran's experiments
with its domestically developed IR-2 centrifuges, which can churn
out enriched uranium at more than double the rate of the machines
that now form the backbone of the Iranian ...