Saturday, February 22, 2014

URANIUM STOCKPILE NOW INADEQUATE TO MAKE BOMB

"... the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that... Iran’s most sensitive nuclear stockpile – uranium refined to a fissile concentration of 20 percent . . . had declined significantly for the first time in four years and was now well below the amount needed for one bomb... Since halting this enrichment under last year’s deal, Iran has diluted some of the material to lower-level uranium and converted some into a less proliferation-sensitive oxide form… Iran lacks the capacity to take the 19.25% enriched uranium up to bomb grade, and there is no evidence that it has solved the many thorny technical problems involved in bomb-making..." 
http://www.juancole.com/2014/02/breakthrough-ignoring-stockpile.html