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Saudi Arabia To 'Immidiatly' Go Nuclear Should Iran Develop Bomb

By Paul Vale Feb 10th 2012 - 05:01AM

Saudi Arabia would immediately push to acquire nuclear weapons should Iran carry out a successfully nuclear test, according to a report in The Times.

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Haggai Carmon: The Short Life Expectancy of Iranian Nuclear Scientists: Assassinations with a Message

By Haggai Carmon Jan 15th 2012 - 05:16PM

The semi-official Fars news agency identified the victim as Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, "a deputy director of Natanz uranium enrichment facility for commercial affairs."

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Iran Nuclear Crisis: US Denounces 'Further Escalation' After Underground Enrichment Plant Confirmed

By Michael Rundle Jan 10th 2012 - 05:08AM

Iran's enrichment of nuclear material at an underground facility represents a "further escalation" of its violation of UN resolutions, the United States has said.

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Iran Continues Uranium Enrichment Program

Aug 29th 2011 - 01:04PM

Conservative Member of Parliament for Northampton South.

uranium enrichment News From the Web

  • 01/08/12 Iran enriches uranium at new site Source: BreakingNews - Ireland Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site protected from possible airstrikes, a leading hardline newspaper reported today.
  • 11/10/11 Prevent nuclear waste at its origin: uranium mining Source: Indymedia - London - UK At an international uranium conference on 4 February 2012 in Münster, central-northwest Germany, we want to share how the international uranium industry is placed a year on from Fukushima.
  • 08/29/11 Iran vows to continue 20 pct uranium enrichment Source: People's Daily Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi said Monday Iran will never stop 20 percent uranium enrichment.
  • 06/09/11 Iran to install new centrifuges, triple 20 pct uranium... Source: People's Daily Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi said Wednesday that Iran is going to install new generation of centrifuges in its uranium enrichment sites and will increase its 20-percent uranium enrichment output by three times, the state IRIB TV website reported.

Background on uranium enrichment

Enriched uranium is a kind of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation.

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