Iran Claims Full Control Over Making Nuclear Fuel

Iran says Sunday that could be used domestically mined uranium to now produce nuclear fuel, which in a country full control over the process the West suspects is aimed at producing weapons.
Tehran claims the day before a new round of nuclear talks with world powers who want to rein in Iran’s uranium enrichment – a process that can be used either to make fuel for nuclear energy or nuclear weapons.
Nuclear chief said that Iran had for the first time in the country extracted from raw uranium to the processing plant – which would allow it to circumvent UN sanctions prohibiting the import of material. Four rounds of UN sanctions targets Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
Nuclear chief Ali Akbar Saleh said of uranium ore known as yellowcake, the uranium mine at Gachin in southern Iran and supplied by the Uranium Conversion Facility in the central city of Isfahan for reprocessing.
Saleh, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, said the van was evidence that the mysterious bombings last week, pointing to two Iranian Nuclear scientists would slow the country’s progress. One of the scientists died and another was injured.
“Today we are witnessing the first shipment of domestic production of yellowcake … Gachin mine in Isfahan nuclear facility,” said Saleh, whose comments were broadcast live on state television.
Four sets of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran, prohibiting the supply of nuclear material to Tehran.
In 2009, Iran claimed western nations exhausted raw uranium for its nuclear program.Tehran denies this, but in recent years trying to obtain uranium from its own deposits.
Iran has acquired a considerable supply of yellowcake from South Africa in 1970 under the former US-backed shah original nuclear program, as specified quantity of yellowcake obtained from China long before the UN sanctions.
Saleh, who is also the country, vice president, said that Iran was a step meant now self-sufficient in the entire nuclear fuel cycle – from extracting uranium ore for enrichment, and fabrication of nuclear fuel.
He added that the report for those meeting with Iran in Geneva on Monday and Tuesday was that they can not stop Iran’s nuclear work.
“No matter how much effort, which in its sanctions … our nuclear activities will continue and will witness greater success in the future,” he said in an interview with state-run Press TV after notification.
Saleh said that the work will be supervised by the UN nuclear watchdog – the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi on Saturday accused the IAEA sent inspectors spies in the guise of collecting information on Iran’s nuclear activities.
Five groups of students uncompromising follow-up call to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog agency for what they proclaimed, is “spying” on Iran. Called him “the International Atomic Agency spying.”
Iranian nuclear chief said that more uranium mine at Saghande, in central Iran, will be inaugurated “in the not too distant future.”
Gachin uranium mill near Bandar Abbas processes ore extracted from nearby mines to yellowcake. Processing is part of the early stages before its uranium enrichment.
Yellowcake is then taken to the Isfahan uranium processing facilities in hexaflouride, which can later be turned into gas used as feedstock for uranium enrichment.
Uranium enriched to low grades is used as fuel in nuclear reactors, but further enrichment is suitable for atomic bombs.
The United States and some of its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian nuclear program as cover to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denied the accusation, saying its nuclear program is aimed solely at generating electricity and producing medical isotopes to treat patients.
Saleh did not provide information on how much yellowcake had been transferred to Isfahan, but said the shipment, for now, should be carried out “continuously”. State television showed a large, covered truck carrying yellowcake.
In October, Saleh said nuclear experts have discovered more uranium than previously thought on Gachin and strengthen were examining ore.
The Iranian government also provided funds for its nuclear agency to begin Saghande ore, mine with the largest uranium reserves in the country. Saghande while in service.
Saghande known reserves are estimated at more than 1.7 million tons of medium quality ore. Mine, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) south of Tehran, has a production capacity of 132,000 tons of uranium ore per year. It consists of an open mine with reserves and underground mine in the vicinity. Lack of funds has reportedly postponed the ore in the mine.
Iran announced discoveries of new deposits of uranium in 2006 at three locations in the central region Khoshoomi, Charchooleh and Narigan.