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March 5, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1267613659.pdf

Countdown to the Iranian Bomb

(Strategic Assessment-Institute for National Security Studies) Ephraim Kam and Ephraim Asculai - Iran would need 16 months in order to amass enough LEU to be converted into 25 kg of high-enriched uranium (HEU) - an amount that according to IAEA definitions is enough for the core of one nuclear explosive device. If this rate continues and if we take into account the LEU reserves Iran already has, which is more than enough for the first core, by the second half of 2010 Iran will have enough LEU for enrichment to HEU for two cores, and by 2012 - for three.

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