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UN Report Says Iran Has Fuel for 2 Nuclear Weapons

(New York Times) David E. Sanger and William J. Broad - A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency declared Monday that Iran has now produced a stockpile of nuclear fuel that experts say would be enough, with further enrichment, to make two nuclear weapons. The report says that Iran has expanded work at one of its nuclear sites. It also describes, step by step, how inspectors have been denied access to a series of facilities, and how Iran has refused to answer inspectors' questions on a variety of activities, including the "possible existence" of "activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile." The inspectors reported that Iran had installed a second group of centrifuges which could improve its production of the 20 percent enriched fuel.
2010-06-02 09:03:44
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