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September 7, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/06/AR2010090603598.html

UN Report Says Iran Is Stockpiling Enriched Uranium

(Washington Post) Greg Miller - U.S. officials suspect that Iran is pushing its nuclear program as far as it can under UN inspections, with an aim of giving the nation's leaders the option to quickly reconfigure facilities to rush forward the production of a bomb. Iran says, for example, that it is enriching uranium at 20 percent levels to produce fuel rods for a medical research reactor. But U.S. officials say Iran's explanation is implausible, in part because it doesn't have the sophistication to work with medically useful fuel rods. Despite Iran's ongoing work, U.S. intelligence agencies have recently concluded that it would take about a year, even under a rushed scenario, for Iran to develop a bomb.

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