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June 8, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-nuclear6-2009jun06,0,515299.story

IAEA: Iran Nuclear Program Advancing, Uranium Found in Damascus Lab

[Los Angeles Times] Borzou Daragahi - Iran has significantly boosted its supply and output of reactor-grade nuclear material, according to a quarterly report issued Friday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's arms control division. The report says Iran has increased its supply of low-enriched uranium during the last three months by 30%, to nearly 3,000 pounds, and is now feeding uranium gas into about 5,000 high-speed centrifuges, up 25% since February. It also has an additional 2,000 centrifuges spinning in preparation for being fed uranium gas to turn into nuclear material. Meanwhile, in Syria, international inspectors reported finding unexplained particles of modified uranium at a lab in Damascus. The particles "are of a type not included in Syria's declared inventory of nuclear material," the report says.

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