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September 22, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.eng.gees.org/articulo/451/

Iran: What We Know That We Know

[Expansion/Strategic Studies Group-Spain] Rafael Bardaji - Combining the data advanced by Iranian authorities and the estimates made by the IAEA, experts at the University of Wisconsin who have long monitored the Iranian nuclear program think that Iran appears to be producing about 2.77 kg of low-enriched uranium (LEU) a day. As of Sept. 10, Iran had already stockpiled 1,602.31 kg of this nuclear material. If in order to produce military uranium for a bomb, 800 kg of LEU is the amount suitable, then Iran might already have enough material to make its first two nuclear bombs whenever it sees fit. Converting LEU into military uranium would only take Tehran approximately three months. The writer served as foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Aznar of Spain.

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