Nightatch schrieb:Es hat sich mittlerweile herauskristallisiert das die hauptsächlich den Israelis zuzuschreibenden Geheimdienstoperationen das iranische Atomprogramm um bis zu fünf Jahre zurückgeworfen haben.

Zitat:US Think-Tank:
Iran's Nuclear Capability Unharmed Contrary to Western Assessments

TEHRAN (FNA)- Federation of American Scientists in a report published recently underlined that the US attempts to hack Iran's nuclear softwares and networks have failed to cause a major setback in the country's nuclear capability, stressing that Iran's atomic activities have not at all slowed down.

"Calculations based on IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) data show that Iran has increased its enrichment performance over the past year," said Ivanka Barzashka, an FAS research associate.

"Contrary to statements by US officials and many experts, Iran clearly does not appear to be slowing down its nuclear drive."

Barzashka, the FAS researcher, also said that the total uranium enrichment capacity at Iran's Natanz site increased last year.

"The boost in capacity is due to an apparent increase in centrifuge performance," her report said.
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Zitat:Iran builds nuclear fusion reactor
Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:47PM
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Iranian scientists at the Atomic Energy Organization or Iran (AEOI) have designed and built a nuclear fusion device, named IR-IECF, IRNA reported on Thursday.
The research and work on the reactor was carried out by scientists from the Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion Laboratory of the AEOI Nuclear Science and Technology Research Center.
The device uses Inertial Electrostatic Confinement method and can produce isotopes and radioisotopes used in diagnosing and curing cancer.
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Fusion -- which extracts energy from nuclear reactions with a process akin to how light and heat are produced by the sun -- has been studied for decades, but it has yet to be developed into a viable energy alternative.
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Zitat:'Iranian nuclear facility recovered quickly from Stuxnet'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
02/16/2011 07:31

VIENNA - In an underground chamber near the Iranian city of Natanz, a network of surveillance cameras offers the outside world a rare glimpse into Iran's largest nuclear facility. The cameras were installed by UN inspectors to keep tabs on Iran's nuclear progress, but last year they recorded something unexpected: workers hauling away crate after crate of broken equipment.

In a six-month period between late 2009 and last spring, UN officials watched in amazement as Iran dismantled more than 10 percent of the Natanz plant's 9,000 centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium. Then, just as remarkably, hundreds of new machines arrived at the plant to replace the ones that were lost.
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"While it has delayed the Iranian centrifuge program at the Natanz plant in 2010 and contributed to slowing its expansion, it did not stop it or even delay the continued buildup of low-enriched uranium," the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said in the draft, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post.
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Zitat:Iran: Probleme im neuen Atomkraftwerk

Teheran. Der Iran muss sein erstes Atomkraftwerk wieder auseinander nehmen. Auf Rat russischer Ingenieure, die den Reaktor fertigstellen sollen, würden die Brennstäbe aus dem Inneren entfernt, sagte Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Irans Botschafter bei der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) in Wien. Man brauche Zeit für zusätzliche Tests und „technische Operationen“. Für das umstrittene iranische Atomprogramm ist dies ein schwerer Rückschlag.

Was hinter den Schwierigkeiten steckt, ist unklar. Spekulationen reichen von den Spätfolgen eines Angriffs mit dem Computerwurm "Stuxnet" über ein normales technisches Problem bis zu bewusster Sabotage durch Russland, mit dessen Hilfe der Iran die Anlage baute.
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Zitat:Iran releases ship seized in Hong Kong
Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:37PM

An Iranian container ship seized in Hong Kong due to “sanctions-related problems” has been released, says the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
The ship was seized more than three months ago upon the order of a German bank which decided to call in loans it had made to IRISL early due to UN sanctions against Iran, the IRISL Chief Executive Mohammad Hossein Dajmar said on Saturday.
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“Measures taken by IRISL for complete loan settlement with the European bank neutralized the international plot to stop Iran's national shipping line,” he added.
Four other IRISL-operated vessels were impounded in 2010 -- three of them held in Singapore were released in January but one is still impounded in Malta.
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Zitat:IAEA responds to Iranian scientist's wife
Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:43AM

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano has responded to a letter from the wife of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist.
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As the IAEA chief, Amano wrote, he was fully committed to help prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and promote nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
In her letter to Amano, Qassemi had condemned the assassination of scientists, including Dr. Sharhriari, and called on the IAEA chief to spare no effort to prevent similar attacks.
She had also denounced the nuclear bombings, by the US, of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed thousands of Japanese.
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Zitat:'UN report clarifies Iran nuclear work'
Sat Feb 26, 2011 4:53PM

The latest report by the UN nuclear agency has confirmed for the 26th time the non-diversion of Iran's nuclear program towards military purposes, Tehran's IAEA envoy says.
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Zitat:Iran builds new-generation centrifuges

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi says the country has successfully produced and tested second and third generations of Iranian-brand centrifuges.
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He also announced that a unit for producing uranium dioxide with nuclear purity has been launched at the fuel enrichment plant in the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
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Zitat:'Bushehr one of world's safest N-plants'
Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:38AM

Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh says the Bushehr power plant in southern Iran is among the safest nuclear facilities in the world.
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