{"id":307381,"date":"2010-02-11T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.armscontrolwonk.com,2010-02-11:57f256023a9af1385990be02cc9db91e\/32b9d87912be406432b53a716f9dab94"},"modified":"2010-02-11T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:29:46","slug":"iran-produces-heu-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307381","title":{"rendered":"Iran Produces HEU [22]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranian President Mohamed Ahmadinjed, aka A-Bomb, has announced<\/a> that Iran has produced the first “consignment” of 20 percent highly enriched uranium (HEU<\/span>). I don’t know what a consignment is, but I would think in this case, it is less than a kilogram.<\/p>\n

Arms Control Wonk.com has obtained GOV<\/span>\/INF\/2010\/2<\/a> — the 10 February IAEA<\/span> document on Iran’s preparations to create highly enriched uranium.<\/p>\n

Amano notes that IAEA<\/span> inspectors were informed on 10 February (talk about quick turnaround!) that Iran was feeding UF6 into one cascade for passivation<\/em> purposes. For those of you who don’t remember, reader Russel provided a fine description of passivation:<\/p>\n

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One of the preparatory processes that is required before using a centrifuge component for the first time is \u201cpassivation\u201d \u2013 which basically involves bathing any UF6 exposed bits in UF6 so that anything with a remaining potential to react will react in a controllable environment rather than in the vacuum system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Iranians told the IAEA<\/span> the would be begin to produce HEU<\/span> “within a few days.” Hence A-Bomb’s announcement.<\/p>\n

For more, David Albright and Jacqueline Shire have published an analysis of Iran’s potential HEU<\/span> production and its implications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update | 12:38 pm<\/strong> George Jahn has a story<\/a> on the document. Of course, we have the full text!<\/p>\n

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Iranian President Mohamed Ahmadinjed, aka A-Bomb, has announced that Iran has produced the first “consignment” of 20 percent highly enriched uranium (HEU). I don’t know what a consignment is, but I would think in this case, it is less than a kilogram. Arms Control Wonk.com has obtained GOV\/INF\/2010\/2 — the 10 February IAEA document on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}