Sunday, February 19, 2023

Iran On Cusp Of Having Nukes: Uranium Enriched To 84% Purity

Iran said on cusp of ability to make nukes, having enriched uranium to 84% purity

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold.



Inspectors from the US atomic agency discovered uranium enriched to 84 percent purity in Iran last week, closer than ever to weapons-grade levels, Bloomberg reports, citing two unnamed senior diplomats.

Iran has been known thus far to have enriched uranium to 60%. A purity of 90% is needed to produce nuclear weapons.

IAEA inspectors are reportedly trying to determine whether Tehran intentionally made the move or if it was an “unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes.”

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