After all, Iran does not need uranium enrichment technology.

What would it take to essentially eliminate Iran s uranium enrichment effort?

Their major asset for developing nuclear weapons is the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.

Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities.

In Isfahan, Iran, several hundred university students created a live chain around Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility.

Uranium enrichment activities were started in 1987 at the Aramar Experimental Center, which developed the technology indigenously.

The huge Iraqi uranium enrichment program was only meant to produce fuel for future nuclear power stations.

It basically boils down to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and to the Natanz fuel enrichment plant.

But, in the midst of those meetings, it was revealed that Iran has been secretly building a second enrichment facility with the potential to produce weapons grade uranium.

And in 2004, the IAEA blew the whistle on South Korea s non safeguarded plutonium and enrichment experiments.

Indeed, when the UN Security Council formally demanded a stop to the enrichment program and imposed mild sanctions last December, Iran s defiant answer was to increase enrichment activity.

Germany has been determined, together with France and Britain, to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment through incentives and negotiation.

LOS ANGELES amp 45 amp 45 The approval of fresh sanctions on Iran marks the third time that the United Nations Security Council has been galvanized to stem the Islamic Republic s feared uranium enrichment efforts.

In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.

The list of disputes between the two countries is almost endless, but Iran s plan to enrich uranium now stands above everything else.

First, Iran must halt all enrichment of uranium to 20 purity (a level required for research reactors, but only a short step away, in practical terms, from weapons grade uranium).

So, when the Bush administration wanted to oppose Iran s program, merely pointing to the bare fact of enrichment wasn t enough. It had to point to other acts, including concealment efforts, which violate the NPT, and argue that these infractions were so serious that Iran s enrichment right must be taken away.

Iran has even proposed regional and multinational participation in its uranium enrichment facilities only to be met by resounding silence from the Western powers.

So, when the Bush administration wanted to oppose Iran s program, merely pointing to the bare fact of enrichment wasn t enough.

The P5 1 should continue to negotiate with Iran on its uranium enrichment program, while the International Atomic Energy Agency should negotiate with Iran on strengthening the transparency of its nuclear program.

The Board urged Iran to re establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment related activity, including conversion and reprocessing activity, and to implement the transparency measures requested by the IAEA Director General.

That is why there was so much pressure to produce the deal now on the table, which dramatically limits Iran s enrichment capability.

Turkey has consistently defended the interpretation that states have the right to establish domestic uranium enrichment programs under the NPT, provided that they comply with their treaty commitments.

The US has so far insisted that it will agree to a comprehensive dialogue only if Iran first suspends its enrichment activities.

At Tuesday noon, students' prayers in front of the entrance into Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility were followed by their chanting of death to both the USA and Israel.

They take these fuel pellets and slide them down these zirconium tubes and they actually will segregate the pellets along the length of the fuel assembly according to enrichment.

There has been widespread fear that Iran would abrogate the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and use its enrichment facilities to develop a nuclear weapon.

And the Soviet Union followed with a research reactor from which Libyan scientists extracted small amounts of plutonium.

Most recently, Iran s government announced plans to enrich its uranium to levels that appear incompatible with civilian use and that defy several United Nations Security Council resolutions.

And the Soviet Union followed with a research reactor from which Libyan scientists extracted small amounts of plutonium.

The country has also spent millions of dollars on illegal purchases of enrichment technology and nuclear weapon designs from the Pakistani nuclear scientist and black marketeer A.Q. Khan, the Father of the Pakistani bomb.

After North Korea s enriched uranium program triggered another crisis in late 2002, President George W. Bush wanted to mobilize China s influence in a more systematic way.

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As Iran s uranium enrichment and other weapons development activities continue unabated, the US needs to make a break with the old rules of engagement.

With the United Nations sanctions regime now having proven to be utterly ineffective, and with international diplomacy apparently futile in preventing the Iranians from mastering the technology for enriching uranium, Israel is being boxed into a corner.

And, just a few weeks before the shelling of Yeonpyeong, North Korea showed a delegation of American scientists a new and previously undisclosed uranium enrichment plant, which will increase the regime s capacity to make nuclear weapons.

And there is the disconcerting prospect that new civil nuclear energy players will insist on building uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing plants of their own, rightly described as bomb starter kits.

Russia needs America and the West in order to realize its ambitious initiative to establish international centers of uranium enrichment, and it needs Western markets, which are the largest consumers of Russia s gas and oil.

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President Bush now argues that all along it has been the above board enrichment of uranium, not some other, secret program, that carries Iran ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

CAMBRIDGE The announcement of a secret uranium enrichment facility located on a military base in Iran has sharpened President Barack Obama s efforts to place nuclear proliferation issues at the top of the world agenda.

Reaction of uranium(VI) oxide with hydrogen results in uranium dioxide, which is similar in its properties with ThO2.

The participation of the largest possible number of States is vital first and foremost the nuclear Powers, but also countries which possess the potential to produce nuclear explosive devices and have uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing facilities.

Only a few years ago, Iran s government seemed sufficiently in awe of the US to inch toward an agreement on its nuclear program that would have interrupted, and perhaps even halted, its enrichment activities.

One could do with a course of lip reading at these meetings.