Apart from now common and frequent reference to Iran being in contrary to UN Security Council resolutions, the latest Iran report of UN nuclear watchdog Yukiya Amano does not state anything new except that environmental samples taken at the Fordow uranium enrichment site have revealed a level of enriched uranium above what has Iran has [...]
Posts Tagged ‘LEU’
Twenty-seven
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged David Albright, Fordow, HEU, ISIS, LEU, NPT, Yukiya Amano on May 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Confidence Building
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged IAEA, LEU, Tehran Research Reactor, Yukiya Amano on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It might be a paradox when Iran’s announcement of having inserted the first self-fabricated fuel rod for the US-built 40-plus-year-old Tehran Research Reactor (which is supposed to produce nothing but isotopes for medical purposes) must be considered a confidence building measure. But it certainly is. It is the final step in the (peaceful) nuclear fuel [...]
Slowly Stockpiling HEU
Posted in IAEA, Iran, tagged Additional Protocol, Fereydoun Abbasi, Fordow, HEU, LEU, modified Code 3.1, Natanz, NPT, P5+1, Russian proposal, weapons grade uranium, Yukiya Amano on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Quarterly reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Director General (DG) Yukiya Amano are becoming increasingly strident. In his latest, probably meant alarming, report of September 2, Amano states (under G. Possible Military Dimensions) that, “… the Agency is increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past and current undisclosed nuclear related [...]
Resuming the Talks
Posted in IAEA, Iran, NPT, P5+1, tagged Bushehr nuclear plant, Catherine Ashton, Eric A. Brill, Flynt Leverett, hypocrisy, ISIS, LEU, medical isotopes, Safeguards Agreement IAEA-Iran, Tehran Research Reactor, UN Charta, Vienna Talks on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update below. Finally, Tehran has positively responded to a request, or invitation, from Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, to revive talks in Vienna on the nuclear issue. The meeting is supposed to be held on November 15-17. Another swap proposal is expected. As a matter of fact, the American President Barack Obama wasn’t [...]
Enriched Particles
Posted in IAEA, Iran, NPT, tagged Fordow, Joshua Pollack, LEU, medical isotopes, Natanz, TRR, warmongering, Yukiya Amano on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The harsher tone of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear activities, as compared to the more diplomatic phrasing of its direct predecessor Mohamed ElBaradei has led to a lot of warmongering among America’s neocons and the Israel Lobby. Main criticism has been directed to the mentioning [...]