Paul has done a stellar job keeping up on the most recent IAEA report, making Total Wonkerr a go-to resource on Iran’s centrifuges. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung has an excellent, balanced article on the technical and diplomatic implications of the report. Anyway, now that we are a day out from the release of the …
First Thoughts on IAEA Iran Report
I posted them here. My preliminary take is that the Iranians’ most notable progress has been to enrich uranium in the centrifuges they have installed. Update: More thoughts here.
Iran Making Progress
ISIS has published the full text of the new DG Report on Implementation of Safeguards in Iran. Eight cascades were operating and being fed on May 13, but don’t seem to be linked into a single unit: Since the Director General’s last report, Iran has fed approximately 260 kg of UF6 into the cascades at …
Iraqi Scientists In Iran?
Rob Stein at Mother Jones has this crazy idea that “missing [Iraqi] nuclear scientists made their way to Tehran, where they would have been welcomed with open arms and fat paychecks.” But as recently as February of this year, Iran was thought to have just slightly over 300 centrifuges. Where did they get the technical …
