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Topic: centrifuges

May 23, 2013
7:27 am

Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, left, and Iran's Ambassador to the international atomic agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, speak to media after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

IAEA: Iran expanding nuclear technology

Report shows Tehran is wasting no time in quest for the bomb, enriching uranium and producing plutonium

By George Jahn

May 22, 2013
3:00 pm

Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general of the IAEA, left, and Iran's Ambassador to the international atomic agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, speak to media after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Iran ups uranium enrichment capabilities, diplomats say

Increase of about 100 centrifuges since mid-April, when envoys first claimed the Islamic Republic was rapidly building new nuclear equipment

April 17, 2013
2:43 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran in 2008 (photo credit: AP/Iranian President's Office)

Iran triples enrichment capacity, diplomats say

Move suggests Tehran possesses the know-how and the raw materials to mass-produce centrifuges

February 15, 2013
9:09 pm

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)

World powers to offer easing of sanctions at Iran nuclear talks

From the web Reuters: Barring on trade of precious metal with Tehran will be lifted in return for shut down of Fordo uranium enrichment plant

February 14, 2013
7:03 pm

Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, talks to media after his arrival from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Watchdog says Iran upgraded centrifuges for nuke program

Installation represents a dramatic upgrade in the country’s controversial uranium enrichment program

By George Jahn

February 14, 2013
8:59 am

Centrifuges enriching uranium (Photo credit: US Department of Energy/ Wikimedia Commons)

‘Iran tried to buy game-changing centrifuge parts’

Large order of magnetic rings from China would greatly expand the country’s nuclear enrichment capacity, Washington Post reports

By Aaron Kalman

January 31, 2013
11:14 pm

An anti-aircraft gun guarding the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in Iran in 2007. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

White House: Iran’s centrifuge upgrade represents ‘further escalation’

‘While the world is discussing where and when the next meeting with Iran will be, Iran is rapidly advancing toward a nuclear bomb,’ says Israeli official

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 31, 2013
10:48 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz enrichment facility in 2008 (photo credit: www.president.ir)

Diplomats: Iran preparing to accelerate nuclear program

Major technological upgrade of regime’s uranium enrichment process will also allow faster access to reactor fuel

September 4, 2012
5:55 pm

A military exhibition displays the Shahab-3 missile under a picture of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, in 2008 (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

The Iranians are almost there. This is how they did it

Enrichment is accelerating, the warhead is taking shape, a nuclear trigger is deep in development, and the Shahab-3 missile has Israel in range and can detonate in an airburst 600 meters above ground — just like the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Edwin Black