Pakistan to meet with UN nuclear agency on Iranian uranium contamination

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VIENNA, (AFP) - The UN nuclear watchdog meets this week with Pakistani officials to check its conclusions that highly enriched uranium particles found in Iran were from smuggled Pakistani centrifuge parts rather than enrichment work by Iran, diplomats said.

Pakistan had in May sent centrifuge parts to the Vienna headquarters of the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enable it to compare microscopic traces of uranium on them with that found on equipment in Iran.

The IAEA has concluded that "the highly enriched uranium appears to emanate from Pakistan," from the imported equipment and not from Iranian enrichment work, a Western diplomat close to the IAEA told AFP.

Enriched uranium, made by passing a uranium gas through a series, or cascade, of centrifuge machines, can be fuel for civilian nuclear power reactors or, in a highly refined form, the raw material for atom bombs.

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[Dynasty_At_Passes]

1. Hand caught in the cookie jar....

Spin that off Rush, oh I forgot your neocon Likud propaganda network is dying out!!!

Fat, lazy pill soaked bastard. Your horrible radio show is going down in flames and with it the lies which the government told, to try to force world war with Iran.

[bribri16]

2. Dittoheads are too dumb to understand the significance of this

and you can count on this administration to NOT explain it.

[mom cat]

3. Don't worry...Pakistan is our ally (today). George won't nuke them,

just the evil empire who bought contaminated centrifuges from them.

[fujiyama]

4. This is the second "axis of evil" nation

Pakistan has helped with regards to nuclear technology.

Yet, they're our ally. Makes your head spin.