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Iran to convert low-enriched uranium gas to safer form

Iran plans June launch of plant for curbing low-grade uranium stash – diplomats Firstpost World May 30, 2014  VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran is planning to start up a plant in June that will convert low-enriched uranium gas into an oxide form less suitable for making nuclear bombs, as required by a landmark deal with world powers, diplomats said. Under last year’s interim accord with six major powers to help ease tension over Iran’s nuclear programme, it needs to take action by late July to limit its stockpile of uranium gas refined to a fissile concentration of up to 5 percent.

It was one of the terms of the six-month accord between Iran and the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China to curb Tehran’s atomic activities in exchange for some easing of sanctions that took effect on Jan. 20. Iran is meeting all the other requirements of the deal that was designed to buy time for talks on a final settlement of the decade-old dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme, a U.N. watchdog report showed last week. ….
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May 30, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general