In a statement on Monday, IAEA Chief Amano Yukiya confirmed that Iran has followed through on plans to increase its rate of uranium enrichment. He did not say by how much the rate increased, but confirmed Iran remains within set stockpile limits.
Iran is enriching uranium in the low level of about 3.6%, which is then
use as fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant. Iran has considered the
stockpile limit voluntary since the US withdrew from the deal, but has
not approached the limit at any rate, with Russia continuing to convert
the uranium into fuel for the power plant.
Amano further confirmed that Iran remains in all ways compliant with the
P5+1 nuclear deal, The last official IAEA report, from May 20, had
affirmed as much and showed stockpiles had grown only slightly,
suggesting the rate of increase in probably minor.
3.6% enriched uranium is far, far below the 90%+ level needed to make
weapons at any rate. Iran has suggested they might as much as quadruple
their enrichment rate eventually, though this rests on further
improvements to their centrifuges, and is likely an exaggeration meant
to convince the EU nations that they need to ensure that the P5+1 deal
continues to benefit Iran even without the US involved.
All right, so now I see how this gets twisted on FOX news and the FDD.
Iran is using newer centrifuges to increase the enrichment rate not enrichment level. In other words they are doing it faster, not increasing their stockpile and they are doing this under the supervision of the IAEA.
Those war mongers are shameless, they care nothing for the truth.
I’m generally not one to buy into MSM scare stories, but Iran is clearly working towards bomb construction. Their 3.5% enriched uranium is NOT used to fuel their reactors. Russia provides their fuel rod assemblies. Can Iran even make nuclear fuel rods? This whole nuclear deal is an epic troll job. Note: This is not an endorsement by me for US military action, but let’s call a spade a spade here.
Yes, let’s call a spade a spade.
Reactor fuel is enriched to between 3.5% and 4.5%.
Weapons grade uranium is enriched to 85% or more.
I can’t for the life of me imagine why the Iranians wouldn’t want to be at the mercy of a foreign power for their reactor fuel.
They ARE at the mercy of a foreign power for reactor fuel! They can’t assemble their own fuel rod assemblies!
Do you think they just enrich to 3.5% and stick it in the reactor? Jesus.
Step 1 in fuel rod assembly: Produce the enriched uranium for the fuel rods.
Without the enriched uranium, you can’t do anything else.
But in point of fact Iran has been making its own fuel rods for at least seven years — https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/defiant-ahmadinejad-loads-iranian-made-fuel-rods-into-nuclear-reactor/
Evidence that Iran has worked on developing nuclear weapons at any time since 2004: Zero, zip, zilch, nada, bupkes.
Sir, that is for a research reactor. IE, extremely small scale. And no, they do not make the fuel rods for the Bushehr reactor.
But they will eventually.