Ahmadinejad orders 20% uranium enrichment
Posted by alex_c on February 7th, 2010
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has tasked the country’s atomic chief with enriching uranium to 20 percent, in order to meet the demands of the country’s cancer patients.”
From CBC, Iran to produce higher-enriched uranium:
…the 20 per cent threshold is substantially below the 90 per cent-plus needed to make fissile warhead material… The Iranian president said he decided to ramp up production because Western governments have balked at his proposal for a fuel exchange to keep the medical reactor operating.
