Iran Said to Install Uranium Centrifuges

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2007/jan/15/011508605.html

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Monday it is installing 3,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium at one of its nuclear facilities, effectively confirming that its nuclear program is running behind schedule as the devices were to have been in place two weeks ago.

Over the weekend, Iran dismissed reports from Europe that its uranium enrichment program had been stalled. Enriched uranium is used as fuel in nuclear reactors and, at a higher degree of enrichment, can also be used to make atomic bombs.

But Iran had said the installation of the 3,000 centrifuges at its facility in Natanz, located in central Iran, would be completed by the end of 2006. Its failure to do so has prompted reports that it is encountering technical difficulties in mastering large-scale enrichment.

Diplomats in Vienna - where the International Atomic Energy Agency is based - said Thursday that the enrichment program in Natanz had ground to a halt.

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[madrchsod]

1. this really is a joke

so bush is going to war with a country that is years away from developing nuke power let alone a bomb and the capability to launch and guidance? i truly amazed at bush`s ability to foresee the future. maybe he is god`s chosen one