Efforts to resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program stalled yesterday when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced he was no longer open to nuclear talks and said the country would begin enriching its own uranium, bringing its stockpile closer to weapons-grade material.
Iran angrily refused Sunday to comply with a demand by the United Nations nuclear agency to cease work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant, and escalated the confrontation by declaring it would construct 10 more such plants. International Atomic Energy Agency voted last week to r
After its three-day inspection of the underground site, the International Atomic Energy Agency has pressed Iran to declare in writing that it has no other hidden nuclear facilities, according to a copy of the
Iran’s rejection of international community’s proposal to fuel the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) indicates that the Supreme Leader feels no urgency to rebuild confidence with the international community, writes Deepti Choubey of the
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) was the first to report that the Department of Energy (DOE) had delayed a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) report about a potential major threat to public safety posed by plutonium at the Los Alamos Nation
Every day, the whirling centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment plant produce about 2.75 kilograms of the stuff, according to International Atomic Energy Agency data.
The only benefit Iranian hardliners seek to gain in refusing to comply with the recent nuclear deal is to appear as the true defenders of the Iranian revolution, said Ploughshares Fund President Joseph Ciricione during an interview with PRI’s “The World” on Iran. Ciricione says the regime is on the rocks and the internal debate around the nuclear issue is the cause for Iranian mixed signals. Listen the full interview here.
The amount of uranium needed at Qum, some 7 to 16 percent of Isfahan's stockpile, would be too great a diversion to go unnoticed, says Andreas Persbo, an arms-control analyst at VERTIC, a Ploughshares Fund gr
Iranian leaders failed to accept a proposal to ship most of their uranium abroad for enrichment. Iranian state TV said Tehran was waiting for a response to its own proposal to buy nuclear fuel instead. According to Jim Walsh, a proliferation