Siting of uranium enrichment facility halted

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 314A-314A
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Cooney
Keyword(s):  
Enrichment Facility ◽  
Uranium Enrichment

scholarly journals Good for the Shah, Banned for the Mullahs: The West and Iran's Quest for Nuclear Power

2006 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kibaroglu
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Water Production ◽  
Enrichment Facility ◽  
Uranium Enrichment ◽  
The West ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

Iran's nuclear program has become a highly controversial issue in international politics since the August 2002 unveiling of the secretly built uranium enrichment facility in Natanz and the heavy-water production plant in Arak. American officials and experts assert that Iran has secret plans to use its nuclear capabilities to develop nuclear weapons. Iranian officials, however, deny such allegations and claim that they will use their capabilities exclusively for peaceful purposes. Notwithstanding the official rhetoric, some Iranian scholars, intellectuals, and even bureaucrats argue that Iran should seriously consider developing nuclear weapons given that they have the necessary skills and capabilities as well as the reasons to do so. The clerical leaders have supposedly not yet decided about weaponizing Iran's nuclear capability. However, the ever-increasing size of Iran's existing nuclear infrastructure, and the achievements of Iranian scientists, who claim to have developed indigenous capabilities, may very well elevate Iran to the status of a nuclear power, even a de facto nuclear-weapons state.

Iran’s Nuclear Saga; And Iraq Averts an Inter-Sectarian War

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-240
Author(s):  
Dilip Hiro
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
The Other ◽  
Enrichment Facility ◽  
Uranium Enrichment ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Nuclear Program ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
The Us

Alarmed by the news in August 2002 that Iran was hiding a uranium enrichment facility from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Riyadh strengthened its ties with Pakistan, a declared nuclear power. With the election of radical conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president in 2005, the issue of Tehran’s nuclear program turned into a crisis which was referred to the United Nations Security Council. This reassured Riyadh. On the other hand, it refused to face the reality that once the US, as the occupying power in Iraq, had introduced free and fair elections in post-Saddam Hussein era, the long-suppressed Shia majority would gain power through elections. This happened in late 2005. The alienated Sunni militants, forming Al Qaida in Mesopotamia, bombed a sacred Shia shrine in Samarra in February 2006, and triggered low-intensity warfare between Shias and Sunnis. Washington and Baghdad worked jointly to dampen sectarian violence, and succeeded by buying Sunni tribal leaders’ loyalties with cash. In his secret cable to the State Department in September 2009, the US ambassador in Baghdad conceded that Iran’s influence in Iraq was pervasive. In other words, the balance of power in the Saudi-Iranian Cold War had shifted in Tehran’s favor.

Airborne uranium, its concentration and toxicity in uranium enrichment facilities

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Thomas ◽  
J. Mauro ◽  
J. Ryniker ◽  
R. Fellman
Keyword(s):  
Uranium Enrichment

scholarly journals Correlating nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry and atom probe tomography analysis of uranium enrichment in metallic nuclear fuel

The Analyst ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kautz ◽  
John Cliff ◽  
Timothy Lach ◽  
Dallas Reilly ◽  
Arun Devaraj
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Atom Probe Tomography ◽  
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Atom Probe ◽  
Uranium Enrichment ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Atom Probe Tomography Analysis ◽  
Secondary Ion ◽  
Tomography Analysis

235U enrichment in a metallic nuclear fuel was measured via NanoSIMS and APT, allowing for a direct comparison of enrichment across length scales and resolutions.

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