Posted on 12/18/2009 3:01:15 PM PST by Flavius
ran’s nuclear chief said Friday the country has started making more efficient models of centrifuges for nuclear program by early 2011.
The official, Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, said Iranian scientists are still testing the more advanced models before they will be put to use at Iran’s enrichment facilities.
The statement underscores Iran’s defiance to U.N. demands to have Tehran halt its controversial enrichment program — a defiance that has not wavered amid recent signals of possible new sanctions over the issue.
Tehran has been saying since April that it is building more advanced centrifuges capable of enriching uranium with higher efficiency and precision, but Salehi’s remarks were a first indication of a timeline when the new models could become operational.
Iran’s uranium enrichment is a major concern to the West, worried that the program masks efforts to make a nuclear weapon. Tehran insists its enrichment work is peaceful and only meant to generate electricity, not make an atomic bomb.
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And where are Iran’s power plants to be fueled by this nuclear energy? Under construction? With architectural drawings?
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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