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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p02s01-usfp.html
Clock Is Ticking as Iran Collects Uranium Feedstock
[Christian Science Monitor] Peter Grier - Every day, the whirling centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment plant produce about 2.75 kg. of low-enriched uranium. As of February, Iran had produced enough LEU to serve as the feedstock for fissile material for one bomb, according to David Albright, a former weapons inspector and president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). By February 2010 Iran will have produced enough LEU to serve as feedstock for two bombs. To produce weapons material, Iran would have to feed its LEU into centrifuges again. "This could be accomplished within three to six months at either the Natanz facility or in a clandestine gas centrifuge facility," noted a recent ISIS analysis.