Sentences with phrase «uranium enrichment facilities»

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

He is credited with orchestrating the set up of Pakistan's hi - tech uranium enrichment facilities.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, head of the country's major nuclear weapons research lab, is credited with setting up Pakistan's uranium enrichment facilities.

By one estimate, this amount would have been almost enough to both fund North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons,» the report said.

One focused on closing the isolation valves of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility and the other aimed to change the speeds of the rotors in the centrifuges.

Cyberattacks have damaged an Iranian uranium enrichment facility, brought a multinational oil company's operations to a halt, and stolen the personnel files of millions of U.S. federal employees.

For example, «Iran will convert its sensitive Fordow uranium enrichment facility into an international «nuclear, physics, and technology centre,» allowing it to remain open as a research lab.

Provided expertise in developing positive relationships with various departments within a uranium enrichment facility located in Eunice, NM.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-- The U.S. Department of Energy said Wednesday that it is entering negotiations with General Electric's nuclear division on a proposal to replace an aging uranium enrichment plant in Kentucky with a new facility.

«I think that this is primarily a way to bridge over the Ayatollah's requirement that no Iranian nuclear facility be shut down and the US requirement that enrichment of uranium stop there,» says Frank von Hippel, a nuclear - weapons and non-proliferation physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.

This secret facility for uranium enrichment came to light in 2009, 2 years after Iran started building it.

Cylinders containing natural uranium, in the form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), arrive at an enrichment facility, where they are inspected and sampled.

Advising the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the transfer of the world's first uranium - enrichment facility in Capenhurst to URENCO.