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Iran Accelerates Its Nuclear ProgramIRAN has started to install 6000 advanced centrifuges at its uranium enrichment facility, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday - an expansion of nuclear work the West fears is aimed at building bombs. Diplomats in Vienna said last week that Tehran was installing advanced enrichment centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, accelerating activity that could give Iran the means to make atom bombs in the future if it chose to. Iran, the worlds fourth largest oil exporter, says it wants nuclear technology to generate electricity. "Today the process of installing 6000 advanced centrifuges started . . . I will give further details about them tonight," the students news agency ISNA quoted Mr Ahmadinejad as saying at Natanz in central Iran, surrounded by anti-aircraft guns. He was to give a speech later in a ceremony in Tehran to celebrate Irans National Day of Nuclear Technology. Mr Ahmadinejads announcement is a new snub to the UN Security Council, which since late 2006 has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt enrichment work. Iran says the sanctions, targeting its nuclear and military sectors as well as its financial transactions with other world powers, has not harmed it. Enriched uranium can be used as fuel in nuclear power plants or, if refined much more, explosive material for weapons. Analysts believe Iran aims to replace its start-up "P-1" centrifuge with a new generation it has adapted from a "P-2" design, obtained on black markets from the West and able to enrich uranium two to three times faster. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany plan to meet in April to discuss whether to sweeten a 2006 offer of incentives to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear program, US officials said on Monday. Tehran has so far rejected any suggestion that it halt or limit its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, and says it will negotiate only with the UN nuclear watchdog. Nuclear analysts say about 1500 centrifuges would be needed for Iran to manufacture the minimum 20 kilograms of highly enriched uranium needed for one crude warhead. REUTERS Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationWorld Briefing | Europe: Britain: Lawmaker Suspended Over Son’s Pay...U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons... Evicted islanders win fight... Flu remedy linked to spate of teen deaths... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Iran Accelerates Its Nuclear Program |
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