Iran Rejects U.N.-Proposed Nuclear Deal Nov 19, 2009
(TEHRAN, Iran) Iran's foreign minister ruled out on Wednesday sending enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from building nuclear weapons. The United Nations last month offered a deal to take 70 percent of Iran's low-enriched uranium to reduce its stockpile of material that could be enriched to a higher level, and possibly be used to make nuclear weapons ... "We will definitely not send our 5.3-percent... (Time.com)
Iran mulls fuel swap Nov 19, 2009
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday Tehran had ruled out sending any low-enriched uranium abroad but would consider a simultaneous fuel swap inside the country, a report said. ISNA news agency quoted Mottaki as saying that a UN-backed proposal which would have seen Tehran's stocks of low-enriched uranium sent out the country for further enrichment was not feasible ... "We reviewed it... from an economic and technical aspect. We will definitely not send out our 3.5... (iAfrica.com)
Amid upturn in relations, Obama visits South Korea Nov 19, 2009
Obama s tough talk came as Iran indicated it would not ship its low-enriched uranium to Russia for processing, the centerpiece of a deal aimed at a peaceful resolution to Iran s contested nuclear program. They have been unable to get to yes, and so as a consequence, we have begun discussions with our international partners about the importance of having consequences, Obama said. (Boston Globe)
Secrecy shrouds Iran's contingency centers Nov 19, 2009
It also appears to reflect a common Western view that treating the Qom site as evidence of a covert nuclear weapons-related program is useful to increase the pressure on Iran to reach agreement with the West to give up the bulk of its low enrichment uranium (LEU) supplies until they could be replenished through more enrichment nearly a year later ... Western governments proposed at the October 1 meeting that Iran agree to ship up to 80% of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of... (Asia Times Online)
US warns Iran of consequences over standoff Nov 19, 2009
Iran on Wednesday rejected a deal to send enriched uranium abroad for further processing, defying Washington and its allies which had called on Tehran to accept a deal which aimed to delay Iran's potential ability to make bombs by at least a year by divesting the country of most of its enriched uranium ... The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had said Iran should send some 75 percent of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France, where it would be turned... (AlertNet)
International news » Nov 19, 2009
More international news. Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying that a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Newsweek: Obama heads to Asia with requests, not demands Nov 18, 2009
That will be especially true when the president stops off in China and seeks to encourage ," as Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg called it last month. "Strategic reassurance" is the term U.S. officials are now using to describe America's posture vis a vis China "as well as other emerging powers like India and Brazil, while protecting our own national interests," . It's all very mutual, a "tacit bargain," as Steinberg called it. It goes like this: America will welcome the rise of China and... (MSNBC -- Politics)
Secret Nuke Talks? Nov 18, 2009
The plan would require the U.N. Security Council to revoke the three existing sanctions and five resolutions ordering Iran to halt its uranium enrichment an unthinkable development at a time when the West is focused on how to impose more, not fewer, sanctions on Iran. Related Stories. (Fox News)
UN nuclear watchdog: Can't rule out other Iran enrichment sites Nov 17, 2009
Istanbul, Turkey - In its first report on Iran's nuclear program since the revelation of a second uranium enrichment facility near Qom in September, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday it could not rule out other hidden nuclear sites in Iran ... Even as Iran weighs a deal with leading powers to exchange the bulk of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) for much-needed fuel for a medical reactor, the IAEA reported that Iran has not expanded its uranium enrichment program since its... (Christian Science Monitor)
UN: Once-secret Iran nuke plant to start in ... Nov 17, 2009
VIENNA Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place at the fortified facility ahead of its 2011 startup, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report Monday ... The IAEA report offered no estimate of Fordo's capabilities, but a senior international official familiar with the U.N. agency's work in Iran said it appeared designed to produce about a ton of enriched uranium a year ... Still, the... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Click to read:Obama Stresses Cooperation With Hu, China Nov 17, 2009
China has significant economic ties with Iran, and Beijing has appeared less willing to endorse a tougher approach to restrict Tehran's uranium enrichment and suspected pursuit of atomic bombs. In a minor step forward, Obama announced that the governments will reconvene their on-again, off-again human rights dialogue early next year. (CBS News)
Iran nuclear program faces setback from Russian reactor delay Nov 17, 2009
Under the deal, Iran would export 70 percent of its current stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) enough to make at least one bomb, if enriched to a much higher level in exchange for nuclear fuel for a small reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. "Unfortunately, so far at least, Iran has been unable to say yes to what everyone acknowledges is a creative and constructive approach," President Barack Obama said after speaking with Mr. Medvedev. (Christian Science Monitor)
Carbon Energy lodges spin-off prospectus Nov 17, 2009
Underground coal gasification hopeful Carbon Energy Ltd has lodged a prospectus for its uranium asset spin-off, Energia Minerals NL, which seeks to raise up to $7. 5 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Russia's Iran reactor 'delayed' Nov 17, 2009
His Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, said he still hoped to persuade Tehran to send its low-enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be further processed to fuel an Iranian research reactor, but warned that "other means" could be employed if progress was not made on the issue ... The report will cover findings by inspectors who recently visited the newly-revealed uranium enrichment facility near Qom ... Mined uranium ore is purified and reconstituted into solid form known as yellowcake... (BBC News -- Africa)
Obama says China agrees on Iran nuclear transparency Nov 17, 2009
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog is concerned that Iran's belated revelation of a new uranium enrichment site near the holy city of Qom may mean it is hiding further nuclear activity, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday ... Western powers have urged Tehran to accept a draft deal in which it would send most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad by the end of the year for further enrichment to turn it into fuel for a medical reactor in Tehran. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
UN presses Iran on nuclear site Nov 17, 2009
The IAEA report said it expected the Qom site to start enriching uranium in 2011 ... The IAEA report on the site near Qom basically confirms that it will be capable of housing some 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment ... In the wider picture, there is still stalemate over the proposal to take Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium and enrich it in Russia and France. (BBC News -- Science)
Test of wills over Iran plan Nov 17, 2009
To begin with, the "fuel-for-fuel" deal, given to Iran under the guise of a proposal by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), whereby Tehran is requested to deliver most of its much-prized "nuclear assets" - some 1,200 kilograms or roughly 70% of its accumulated low-enriched uranium (LEU) - could never have been expected to be feasible. Under the United Nations-brokered plan, Tehran would send its uranium to Russia and France to be further processed before it was returned for use in a... (Asia Times Online)
U.N.: Iran Nuke Plant to Begin in 2 Years Nov 17, 2009
IAEA Says Tehran Plans Uranium Enrichment at Once-Secret Facility in 2011; Ahmadinejad Rejects Pressure From West ... Diplomats told the AP that construction of Iran's recently-revealed uranium enrichment facility near Qom was begun in 2002, was paused for two years, and then resumed in 2006 ... The International Atomic Energy Agency said it believes Iran plans to begin uranium enrichment there in 2011. (CBS News -- World)
Iran: IAEA seeks answers Nov 17, 2009
"Iran's explanation about the purpose of the facility and the chronology of its design and construction requires further clarification," it said, confirming that uranium enrichment activities continued despite UN sanctions. Iran revealed to the IAEA in September that it had built a second uranium enrichment plant inside a mountain near Qom, triggering new outrage in the West over the nuclear drive, even though Iran denies it is trying to build a bomb ... US President Barack Obama said before... (iAfrica.com)
U.S., Russia urge Iran to accept uranium deal Nov 17, 2009
President Obama said Sunday that "time is running out" for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he still hopes to persuade Iran to send its enriched uranium to his country ... Fears about the nature of Iran's nuclear program were heightened in September with the disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom ... Iran agreed to the inspections during a landmark meeting... (San Francisco Chronicle)
UN questions Iran’s truthfulness Nov 17, 2009
BEIRUT - The latest United Nations report on Iran s nuclear program questioned Tehran s credibility regarding a recently disclosed uranium enrichment facility built into a mountain near the holy city of Qom ... It said the plant is capable of producing enough enriched uranium for a nuclear warhead but not enough for a civilian reactor ... The atomic watchdog s quarterly report also said that Iran s nuclear program is operating at less than half capacity, inexplicably producing the same amount of... (Boston Globe)
In first visit to China, Obama walks a tightrope Nov 16, 2009
China has supported sterner sanctions to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but it still balks at getting more aggressive about reining in Iran's uranium enrichment. China is a huge and lucrative market for American goods and services, and yet it has a giant trade surplus with the U.S. that, like a raft of other economic issues, is a bone of contention between the two governments. (Rhinelander Daily News, WI)
Iran Slams U.S. Moves to Seize Muslim-Owned Properties Nov 16, 2009
Obama said Sunday that time is running out for Iran to sign on to a deal to ship its enriched uranium out of the country for further processing. Iranian politicians have rejected the proposed deal but the government says it is still considering it. (Fox News)
U.S., Russia: We're closer to nuke deal Nov 16, 2009
Iran has defied a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt its uranium enrichment program, insisting it has a right to produce fuel for civilian power plants. The United States and other leading nations have been negotiating with Iran to send low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for use in medical research and treatment at a reactor in Tehran. (CNN)
Strained Netanyahu Visit Shows Obama's Failed Middle-East Policy Nov 16, 2009
In June, those leaders set a late Sept. deadline for Iran to quit enriching uranium and open its atomic facilities for inspection ... The proposal calls for Iran to surrender to Russia most of its low enriched uranium (LEU) for further enrichment and then France would convert the uranium into fuel rods that would be returned to Iran for use in a reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. (Human Events Online)
Obama, Medvedev see progress on nuke pact Nov 16, 2009
"Unfortunately, so far it appears Iran has been unable to say yes," to the proposal on uranium reprocessing, Obama said ... The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China along with Germany have engaged Iran on its nuclear program, most recently with a deal for it to ship enriched uranium to Russia for further processing as fuel for an aging reactor used for medical treatments. (MSNBC -- International)
In China, Obama Pushes Freedoms, Internet 2hr Nov 16, 2009
China has supported sterner sanctions to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but it still balks at getting more aggressive about reining in Iran's uranium enrichment. Obama recognizes that a rising China, as the world's third-largest economy -- on its way to becoming the second -- and the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, has shifted the dynamic more toward one of equals. (KCRA 3, CA)
Obama must maintain a delicate balance in China Nov 16, 2009
China has supported sterner sanctions to halt North Korea s nuclear weapons program, but it still balks at getting more aggressive about reining in Iran s uranium enrichment. Obama, Medvedev report progress on nuclear pact. (Boston Globe)
Iran says nuclear rights non-negotiable - report Nov 16, 2009
A draft deal brokered by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), calls on Iran to send some 75 percent of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia and France to be turned into fuel for a Tehran medical research reactor. Tehran says it prefers to buy reactor fuel from foreign suppliers rather than part with its low enriched uranium, that can be used for bombs if enriched further. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Obama, Medvedev say time running out on Iran talks Nov 15, 2009
In talks with six powers in Geneva on Oct. 1, Iran agreed in principle to send the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for further processing and conversion into fuel plates for the Tehran reactor, Western officials said. (Reporting by Caren Bohan and Oleg Shchedrov; Editing by Dean Yates). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Prison time puts stop to scammer's schemes Nov 15, 2009
The letter also claimed that doctors believed her cancer was likely caused by "exposure to depleted uranium during deployment to Somalia while serving in the U.S. Army.". A prosecutor later contacted Augusta Oncology and found she had never been a patient there and there was no John Hopkins, M.D. Mr. King also learned that Ms. Taylor never made it through Army basic training. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Housing Bust: Sowell Series Starts Today Nov 15, 2009
Geopolitics: Why would China give uranium to Pakistan. Why would Russia help Iran build an A-bomb. (Investors Business Daily)
Stalker in bolt gun murder jailed Nov 14, 2009
Page last updated at 17:04 GMT, Friday, 13 November 2009. John McFarlane had stalked his victim, the court heard. (BBC News -- UK)
Teeth grinders are in for a shock Nov 14, 2009
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Brain 'can beat early blindness' Nov 14, 2009
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Turkey 'Would Not Say No' to Storing Iran's Uranium Nov 13, 2009
ANKARA, Turkey Turkey's energy minister says if asked the country would not say no to temporarily storing Iran's enriched uranium to help defuse a standoff over Western suspicions that Tehran is trying to build an atomic bomb ... He says if asked "we would not say no." He says there is no problem in storing low-level enriched uranium here. (Fox News)
Iran Reportedly Began Building Nuke Plant 7 Years Ago Nov 13, 2009
Report: Iran Began Building Uranium Enrichment Facility 7 Years Ago ... VIENNA Iran's recently revealed uranium enrichment hall is a highly fortified underground space that appears too small to house a civilian nuclear program, but large enough to serve for military activities, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday ... One of the diplomats a senior official from a European nation said Thursday that the enrichment hall is too small to house the tens of thousands of centrifuges needed... (Fox News)
Feds Still Seeking Fort Hood Terror Link Nov 13, 2009
Soon, they'll release a photo of Hasan and Bin Laden, handing a bucket of Nigerian yellowcake uranium to Hussein, in front of one of those mobile WMD labs, in a super-elaborate cave-fortress in Tora Bora, as they evilly gun-down Tillman, while dodging fire from Lynch. And we'll believe it. (CBS News -- US)
Ahmadinejad calls for nuclear cooperation Nov 13, 2009
Although President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not directly mention a U.S.-endorsed International Atomic Energy Agency plan in which Iran would trade the bulk of its enriched uranium in exchange for fuel to operate a Tehran medical reactor, he said Iran was confident and powerful enough to begin working with other countries and the U.N.'s international watchdog to expand the country's nuclear program ... The Obama administration, its European allies and international arms-control authorities await a... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tanzania: Body Wants More Experts After Uranium Discovery Nov 13, 2009
com: Tanzania: Body Wants More Experts After Uranium Discovery (Page 1 of 1) ... Body Wants More Experts After Uranium Discovery ... We only have those who have been exposed to nuclear technology applications," he told The Citizen. There is no college in the country offering nuclear science courses, and the subject does not even feature in the science and engineering subjects in schools. Mr Banzi said the 20-plus experts working at Taec were mainly engineers who had undergone short courses... (allAfrica.com)
Libya repatriates hundreds of rebels to Niger -radio Nov 12, 2009
The fighters, who are from an MNJ faction of Niger's Tuareg rebels who launched an uprising in 2007, had laid down their weapons in Libya, a country that they used as a base but also acted as mediator to end the conflict in the uranium miner ... "We are happy to see that these young men who took up arms have returned home to take part in building their country," Abba Malam Boukar, the governor of the Agadez region, which is home to most of the uranium and was central to the violence, said ... 2... (AlertNet)
Netanyahu, Sarkozy make no settlement breakthrough Nov 12, 2009
Their statement said they discussed international efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program "in light of latest evolutions," referring to Iran's apparent rejection of an international proposal to send Iranian uranium abroad for enrichment. Israel views Iran as a major strategic threat, and France under Sarkozy has assumed a stern stance against Tehran, pushing it to halt nuclear activities Iran says are aimed at producing nuclear energy but that the West fears is aimed at making nuclear bombs. (MSNBC -- International)
Uranium study on hold Nov 12, 2009
The National Research Council's governing board wants more time to set up a proposed statewide scientific study on uranium mining ... The National Research Council, which includes the National Academy of Sciences, presented its recommendations for a study in May to the Virginia Commission on Coal and Energy's Uranium Mining Subcommittee ... 2 million, will be funded through Virginia Tech, with Virginia Uranium Inc. picking up the tab. (Chatham Star Tribune, VA)
North Korea's Atomic Full Monty Nov 12, 2009
Last Tuesday's announcement that North Korea has successfully reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into sufficient material to produce a plutonium-based bomb adds another dimension to the enriched uranium bomb Kim Jong-il s regime had already manufactured. Meanwhile, President Obama, in another case of seeing-the-world-not-as-it-is-but-as-I-wish-it-was diplomacy, continues to make statements such as "it is unacceptable for North Korea to be a nuclear power.". (Human Events Online)
EXCLUSIVE - Iranian enrichment has not grown, diplomats say Nov 12, 2009
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has effectively stopped expanding active uranium enrichment since September, diplomats said, while considering a big power offer to fuel a medical reactor if it turns over enriched material seen as an atomic bomb risk ... While Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium (LEU) has likely risen by 200-300 kg from 1,500 kg reported by U.N. monitors in August, the number of operating centrifuge machines at its Natanz enrichment plant has remained at about 4,600, they said ... The... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Is Russia playing both sides on Iran nukes? Nov 11, 2009
Russia signals that it is open to tougher sanctions on Iran, which has failed to respond to an international uranium deal ... Washington - Iran's failure to respond to an international offer to enrich much of its uranium stockpile outside the country for use in a Tehran medical research facility is again raising the prospect of tougher sanctions ... The US, Russia, and France last month negotiated a deal with Iranian officials to remove almost three-quarters of Iran's slightly-enriched... (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
South Korea intent on ignoring North's threat Nov 10, 2009
Covered, but with seemingly much less ubiquity last week were stories that North Korea was adding to its nuclear stockpile, restarting the reprocessing facility whose cooling tower it so flamboyantly blew up last year, and industriously working on the uranium program that for seven years it denied having ... The long-term goal is to remove all nuclear armaments on the Korean Peninsula, but the realistic short-term goal is a freeze on all plutonium and uranium enrichment. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Iran's Ahmadinejad: Capitalism is dead Nov 10, 2009
Iran is under pressure from the West to agree to a UN-brokered nuclear swap deal for enriched uranium, though Tehran has sent mixed signals about whether it will accept ... " Mixed messages from Iran Similar questions have been raised inside and outside Iran about Ahmadinejad's policies. Western officials are uncertain where the government stands on the nuclear offer to exchange the bulk of Iran's low-enriched uranium for a consignment of specialized, higher-grade nuclear fuel for a small... (Christian Science Monitor)
Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life Nov 10, 2009
According to Skousen, Hopkins gave the Soviets "50 suitcases" worth of info on the Manhattan Project, along with nearly half of the nation's supply of enriched uranium. This he told thousands of audiences across the country, sometimes giving five speeches a day. (Salon)
Clinton says nuclear race not in Iran's interest Nov 10, 2009
" onclick="Next();" src="/images/butt_next. Our goal is to prevent or dissuade Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons," Clinton told "The Charlie Rose Show" on public broadcaster PBS during a visit to Germany. Clinton said President Barack Obama's administration has tried to "create a new dynamic" by telling Iran, "'Look, we don't have to trust or love each other to understand that it is in our interest to try to stabilize the world. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Israeli President Visits Brazil, Ahead Of Iran Nov 10, 2009
Iran has also opened embassies in Bolivia and Nicaragua, and an Israeli report recently suggested that Bolivia and Venezuela were supplying uranium to Iran - an allegation denied by both countries. Peres' visit will be the first by an Israeli president to Brazil in more than four decades. (CBS News -- World)
Vitaly Ginzburg; worked on Soviet hydrogen bomb Nov 10, 2009
Sakharov suggested using alternating layers of uranium and fuel in the bomb. Dr. Ginzburg suggested using lithium-6 as fuel because, when hit by neutrons, it would release tritium and helium nuclei and significant amounts of energy. (Boston Globe)
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL SPEAK TO CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP... Nov 10, 2009
Sadly Obama allows the Iranians to reject the deal to ship uranium to Russia, although shortly before the y agreed to it. Obama is a eunuch. (The Drudge Report)
Dounreay 50th anniversary marked Nov 9, 2009
In the 1950s, fast breeder reactors were seen as a more efficient way to harness the energy contained in uranium. The fuel in the reactor core could be burned more intensely and some of the energy released could be captured to create or "breed" a new fuel - plutonium. (BBC News -- Science)
Thorpe moves to scuttle doping claims Nov 9, 2009
"The spokesman could not say how long the agency's examination would take.Thorpe, 24, retired from competitive swimming last November but was dismayed to learn his test results had been leaked to the French newspaper L'Equipe, which reported the swimmer's test produced abnormally high readings for testosterone and luteinizing hormone (LH), both products figuring on the list of banned substances.ASADA is alleged to have picked up the irregularity on the sample but, in another test, found the... (Yahoo News -- Swimming)
Is Marcellus Shale too hot to handle? Nov 9, 2009
The information comes from New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, which analyzed 13 samples of wastewater brought thousands of feet to the surface from drilling and found that they contain levels of radium-226, a derivative of uranium, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink. The findings, if backed up with more tests, have several implications: The energy industry would likely face stiffer... (Albany Times Union)
Group to protest Strykers Nov 8, 2009
He's also raised concerns that the Strykers, which are involved in training exercises at Pohakuloa, could be contaminated with depleted uranium and may pose a health risk to citizens. Richardson called Albertini on Monday to confirm that two Strykers would be in the parade, but they would be unarmed command vehicles. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Medvedev says Russia may back Iran sanctions if nuclear deal falters Nov 8, 2009
MOSCOW - President Dmitri A. Medvedev said Russia might back sanctions against Iran if the Iranians did not take a constructive position on an international plan to temporarily diminish their stockpile of enriched uranium ... That deal would require Iran to ship its low-enriched uranium out of the country for processing, easing fears that the fuel would be used for nuclear bombs ... If agreements are reached on the programs linked to uranium enrichment and its use for peaceful purposes in Iran,... (Boston Globe)
Obama's Asia tour kicks off at critical time on home front Nov 8, 2009
As Clinton departed early Sunday for Berlin, U.S. officials said they anticipated that the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog soon would give up hope that Iran would accept a confidence-building deal under which it would ship uranium abroad for further enrichment. That would set the stage for consideration of new U.N. Security Council penalties against Tehran. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Is Dr. Drew's sexual healing bad for you? Nov 8, 2009
But as transfixing as it might be to witness how easily we yield our planetary panties to an alien suitor, as awful as it might be to grapple with a nefarious force that pretends it just dropped by to bring us vaccines and borrow a little uranium before it's on its merry way, "V" doesn't linger for very long in this provocative territory. By the end of the pilot, we're already flipping through the best fake IDs Evans has ever seen and attending secret resistance meetings where surprise-guest... (Salon)
Iran Rejects Deal Nov 8, 2009
Iran: No Shipment of Uranium Abroad ... TEHRAN, Iran Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether ... Prominent conservative lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran won't ship its low enriched uranium abroad in a single batch or in several shipments, a compromise suggested by some government officials, under any circumstances. (Fox News)
Russia's Medvedev Threatens Sanctions Against Iran Nov 8, 2009
2 tons of low-enriched uranium around 70 percent of its stockpile to Russia in one batch by the end of the year in order to ease international concerns the material would be used for a bomb. Senior Iranian lawmakers on Saturday rejected any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether. (Fox News)
Iran questioned Nov 7, 2009
A confidence-building proposal under which Iran would export low-enriched uranium from its stocks and in return would get fabricated fuel for a medical research reactor seems to have been rejected by the Iranians, at least in its present form. "Iran's response has been so miserable that it is hard to be optimistic that this will go anywhere," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a proliferation expert at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), a London based think-tank. (BBC News -- Africa)
SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US Nov 7, 2009
Most reactors in the world that produce Mo-99 utilize highly enriched uranium (HEU), which can also be used in the construction of nuclear weapons. Under this legislation, nuclear reactors that produce Mo-99 would have to stop using HEU and make the transition to low enriched uranium (LEU) as a replacement. (EurekAlert!)
Iran Tested Warhead Nov 7, 2009
Iran claims it is enriching uranium only for peaceful electricity use. The Vienna-based IAEA, Iran's Foreign Ministry and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran were unavailable for comment when contacted by Reuters. (Fox News -- Business)
