IAEA confirms 20% uranium enrichment in Iran
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:27:10 GMT
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that Iran has produced its first batch of 20 percent enriched uranium at the Natanz enrichment plant.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said in his first report on Iran that Iranian experts carried out the enrichment for producing nuclear fuel for the Tehran research reactor between February 9 and 11.
"Iran provided the agency with mass spectrometry results which indicate that enrichment levels of up to 19.8 percent (uranium) were obtained," the report says.
Iran announced on February 9 that it had started enriching uranium to the level of less than 20 percent to meet the country's fuel requirements for the reactor producing medical radioisotopes, after the potential suppliers failed to provide the fuel under a UN deal.
Two days later, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad formally declared that Iran had successfully produced the first stock of the 20-percent enriched uranium, a declaration which was met with cynicism in the West.
The report noted that Iran started enriching uranium to a higher level in the presence of IAEA inspectors.
"On February 10, when the agency inspectors arrived at the PFEP (Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant), they were informed that Iran had already begun to feed the UF6 (uranium hexafluoride) into one cascade the previous evening," Amano said in his report to the IAEA Board of Governors.
The report also verified the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran.
"The information available to the agency is extensive… broadly consistent and credible in terms of the technical detail, the time frame in which the activities were conducted and the people, and organizations involved," the report said.
However, the IAEA called on Iran to further discuss and cooperate on alleged issues.
"Iran has not provided the necessary cooperation to permit the agency to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities," it added.
"Altogether this raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," Amano said.
Iran has repeatedly denied it is working on sensitive nuclear materials and insists its uranium enrichment plants and other facilities are only geared toward civilian nuclear energy applications.
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伊朗生產第一批20%濃縮鈾
(法新社)2010年2月11日 星期四 20:35
（法新社德黑蘭 11日電） 伊朗 總統艾馬丹加(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)今天表示，伊朗已生產「第一批」供其核子計劃使用的20%濃縮鈾，並且具備生產80%濃縮鈾的能力，但伊朗不會如此做。
立場強硬的艾馬丹加，是在慶祝伊朗1979年伊斯蘭革命的一場講話中，作了上述表示。他說，伊朗不久將把低濃縮鈾（3.5%）的日產量增加2倍。
艾馬丹加同時抨擊美國 總統歐巴馬說，美國總統「錯失機會」，讓以色列 從中得利。
他說：「不幸的是，期望美國政策改變的希望，很快的轉變成絕望。」
艾馬丹加告訴在德黑蘭市中心廣場參加伊斯蘭革命30週年紀念活動的廣大群眾說：「他（歐巴馬）正在錯失機會，並且未採取正確的行動。」（譯者：中央社郭傳信）
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100211/8/gk7e.html
罔顧大國警告 伊朗著手提煉20%濃縮鈾
(法新社)2010年2月10日 星期三 01:35
（法新社德黑蘭 9日電） 罔顧世界大國的新制裁警告，伊朗 今天宣布著手提煉純度達20%濃縮鈾。西方國家警告，除非德黑蘭當局停止敏感核子活動，否則將對伊朗實施新制裁。
在巴黎 ，美國 國防部長蓋茨（Robert Gates）的發言人表示，在「數週而非數月」之內，華盛頓 將針對伊朗，謀求一項新的聯合國 制裁決議。蓋茨剛結束在巴黎的訪問。
伊朗原子能組織首長沙列西（Ali Akbar Salehi）告訴官方伊朗通訊社說：「從今天起，我們在伊朗中部城市納坦茲 (Natanz)的串聯離心機，開始提煉20%濃縮鈾。」
伊朗多家媒體報導說，這項提煉工作是在國際原子能總署（IAEA）的監督下進行。IAEA在維也納的總部也證實，IAEA小組已在當地監督。
沙列西表示，該串聯離心機，「規模大於實驗室」，擁有164部以超音速運轉的提煉濃縮鈾離心機。
他說：「每月可以為德黑蘭反應爐提煉3到5公斤的20%濃縮鈾。」德黑蘭反應爐指的是伊朗受國際監督的設施，用以生產醫療用同位素。
沙列西表示，這項產量「兩倍」於反應爐所需，而20%濃縮鈾將會在伊朗南部伊斯法罕（Isfahan）轉換成燃料板。
無視聯合國的三次制裁，伊朗至今已在納坦茲生產低度濃縮鈾多年。
在伊朗開始升高濃縮鈾活動之際，美國和法國 已警告，將針對德黑蘭的核子活動，在聯合國推動新的「強硬」制裁。
西方國家懷疑德黑蘭提煉濃縮鈾旨在製造原子武器。高純度濃縮鈾可以用作核子彈的裂變核心。（譯者：中央社郭傳信）
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100209/8/gj0m.html
伊朗開始20％鈾濃縮
Iran starts 20% uranium enrichment
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:13:49 GMT
Iran on Tuesday began enriching uranium to a level of 20 percent at its Natanz enrichment facility under the surveillance of inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog.
伊朗在週二在其納坦茲鈾濃縮的設施開始鈾濃縮至20%的水平，在聯合國核監督機構的督察的監視下。
The move comes after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tasked the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) with enriching uranium to 20 percent in order to meet the demands of the country's cancer patients.
行動是在伊朗總統內賈德派給伊朗原子能組織（AEOI）任務後，要鈾濃縮至百分之二十，以達到該國癌症病人的需求。
Iran has earlier informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it would start enriching uranium to 20 percent on Tuesday in the presence of the inspectors and observers from the agency.
Iran needs 120 kg (264 lb) of 20 percent-enriched uranium to fuel the Tehran research reactor, which produces medical isotopes for cancer patients and is soon to run out of fuel.
The Tehran research reactor, which produces 20 different kinds of radio-medicine for cancer patients, runs on 20 percent-enriched U-235.
The AEOI Director Ali-Akbar Salehi on Tuesday confirmed the beginning of uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity level at Natanz plant.
"The enrichment started on Tuesday in a separate cascade from the production line that enriches uranium in Natanz," Salehi told the Islamic Republic News Agency.
"We opened a new cascade, called S8, in Natanz which is more on a lab scale," he said.
The top nuclear official said that doors are still open for talks with Iran about nuclear fuel swap.
"The beginning of the enrichment is not tantamount to the end of interaction and negotiations on a UN-brokered proposal on fuel swap," he said.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is still ready to continue cooperation if the negotiation parties act wisely and end wasting time," Salehi underlined
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中國呼籲談判伊朗核問題
China calls for talks over Iran nuclear issue
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:56:47 GMT
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伊朗仍然願意舉行交換核燃料會談
Iran still open to talks on nuclear fuel swap
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:21:41 GMT
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伊朗發射自製的反導彈系統
Iran to launch home-built anti-missile system
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:39:24 GMT
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美國訴諸'緊急'實施制裁伊朗
US invokes 'urgency' on imposing Iran sanctions
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:43:56 GMT
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