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Iran said it had started sending or raw uranium yellowcake into the first domestically produced nuclear facilities which could then enrich it.
The statement issued by the head of the nuclear program of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi.
Iranian high officials made the comments one day before talks between Iran and some world powers in Switzerland about Tehran's nuclear program is rolled out.
Enriched uranium can be used for fuel in a reactor or converted into a nuclear bomb.
United States and its allies believe Iran may be trying to produce nuclear weapons, but the allegation was denied by Iran.
Tehran declared its nuclear program for civilian and peaceful purposes.
West''has estimated the possibility we will have difficulties to obtain raw materials, but today we have sent the first wave of yellowcake from the mine to a facility Gachin [conversion] Isfahan,''Salehi said on state television.
Inventories yellowcake or urania in the hands of Iran believed to be thinned. Inventories of raw uranium that country originally imported from South Africa in the 1970s.
Urania obtained from processing uranium ore. As that has not enriched uranium, yellowcake is not by itself be used for nuclear weapons.
However, these radioactive materials could be used to breed plutonium, which could then be used in atomic weapons, nuclear physicist said.
Negotiation
On Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, Iran and the five permanent members of UN Security Council - namely, the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - plus Germany.
U.S. Secretary Hillary R Clinton urged Iran to come into negotiations with goodwill and with''a clearer understanding of the meaning of exclusion'', considering the country has faced several layers of UN sanctions package.
Sanctions are imposed against Iran on the basis of the assessment that the country does not comply with UN Security Council resolution ordering Iran to enrich uranium not anymore.
The Security Council states to Iran's peaceful intent can be ascertained as a whole, the country must halt enrichment and other nuclear activities.
Iran says as a signatory to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he is entitled to enrich uranium for fuel for civilian nuclear power center.
The statement issued by the head of the nuclear program of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi.
Iranian high officials made the comments one day before talks between Iran and some world powers in Switzerland about Tehran's nuclear program is rolled out.
Enriched uranium can be used for fuel in a reactor or converted into a nuclear bomb.
United States and its allies believe Iran may be trying to produce nuclear weapons, but the allegation was denied by Iran.
Tehran declared its nuclear program for civilian and peaceful purposes.
West''has estimated the possibility we will have difficulties to obtain raw materials, but today we have sent the first wave of yellowcake from the mine to a facility Gachin [conversion] Isfahan,''Salehi said on state television.
Inventories yellowcake or urania in the hands of Iran believed to be thinned. Inventories of raw uranium that country originally imported from South Africa in the 1970s.
Urania obtained from processing uranium ore. As that has not enriched uranium, yellowcake is not by itself be used for nuclear weapons.
However, these radioactive materials could be used to breed plutonium, which could then be used in atomic weapons, nuclear physicist said.
Negotiation
On Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, Iran and the five permanent members of UN Security Council - namely, the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain - plus Germany.
U.S. Secretary Hillary R Clinton urged Iran to come into negotiations with goodwill and with''a clearer understanding of the meaning of exclusion'', considering the country has faced several layers of UN sanctions package.
Sanctions are imposed against Iran on the basis of the assessment that the country does not comply with UN Security Council resolution ordering Iran to enrich uranium not anymore.
The Security Council states to Iran's peaceful intent can be ascertained as a whole, the country must halt enrichment and other nuclear activities.
Iran says as a signatory to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he is entitled to enrich uranium for fuel for civilian nuclear power center.
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