Report shows progress on Iran’s nuclear program
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http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2013/05/report-shows-progress-on-irans-nuclear-program/
> And Iran is slowly raising the level of enrichment to 20% purity and
> converting the uranium to metal oxide form, which will purportedly be
> used as reactor fuel. The number of centrifuges used for enrichment
> grew by 1395 since February, for a total of 14 244. Only 689 of those
> centrifuges are of a new advanced form, and none appear to be in use
> yet. However, the country is also making progress on a heavy-water
> reactor at its Arak facility; the reactor can be used for producing
> plutonium that would also be useful in weapons