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Key Findings of IAEA Report on Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Safeguards and U.N. Resolutions

November 14, 2013

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The following brief was just published by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) on the current state of Iran’s nuclear program:

Key Findings from the IAEA Iran Safeguards Report

David Albright, Christina Walrond, and Andrea Stricker

November 14, 2013

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released on November 14, 2013 its report on the implementation of NPT safeguards in Iran and the status of Iran’s compliance with Security Council resolutions.  Below are the key findings from the report.  A complete ISIS analysis will follow later today.

Key Findings:

1) Iran has continued to produce near 20 and 3.5 percent low enriched uranium (LEU) at the same rate as the last reporting period.  Its centrifuge capability at the Natanz and Fordow enrichment facilities remains essentially the same as the last reporting period.

2) Number of installed IR-1 centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) increases by only 4 machines; number of enriching centrifuges decreases by two cascades.

3) No new IR-2m machines installed and no enrichment in IR-2m cascades in the FEP.

4) No new centrifuges enriching at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, and no increase in the number of installed centrifuges at the plant.

5) Iran continues to convert its 19.75 percent uranium hexafluoride into uranium oxide, but it has increased its stockpile of near 20 percent low enriched uranium hexafluoride by 10 kg to 196 kg total.

6) Critical components of the IR-40 Reactor at Arak remain uninstalled.

7) No new fuel assemblies completed for the IR-40 reactor; number of fuel assemblies remains consistent at 10; Iran in the process of completing an eleventh assembly.  A full core would hold 150 fuel assemblies

8) Iran takes positive step in concluding initial cooperation agreement with IAEA; much more is required to satisfy IAEA’s concerns about past or possibly ongoing nuclear weapons related work.  Iran also did not agree to provide updated, detailed design information on the Arak Heavy Water Reactor.

Read the IAEA’s full Iran Safeguards Report here.

November 14, 2013 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized