Declassified Pentagon report on Iranian military power for 2012

Report ^ | April 2012 | DoD

[moonshot925]

The Pentagon declassified this report 2 weeks ago and it is now available.

[moonshot925]

Here is some good info.

•At the Natanz Underground Fuel Enrichment Plant, as of February 2012, Iran was producing 3.5-percent low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (LEUF6) with about 8,800 of the 9,150 installed IR-1 centrifuges. At the Natanz Aboveground Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant, Iran was producing 20-percent LEUF6 with one intercoooected cascade pair (328 centrifuges). About 6,200 empty IR-1 centrifuge casings were installed in that facility. At the Qom Enrichment Facility (aka the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant), Iran was producing 20-percent LEUF1 with two pairs of interconnected cascades (about700 IR-1 centrifuges). Iran had filled the remainder of the facility's centrifuge capacity with 2,100 empty IR·I centrifuge casings. Iran declared the entire facility would be used for producing LEUF6, abandoning previous plans to conduct centrifuge research and development there.

•Iran continued construction at the heavy-water Iran Nuclear Research Reactor (IR-40) at Khondab in violation of UN resolutions.

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Just as a note, the heavy-water reactor won't need enriched uranium to operate. Depending on its design, it will be able to create plutonium for fission devices - and tritium for thermonuclear devices.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks moonshot925.