Is Iran just making medical isotopes with their reactor?
BBC News - Iran confuses again with 'further enrichment'
It's what they claim, and what every shred of evidence points to. But it still is sort of bewildering.
Iran's announcement that it will further enrich its stock of uranium adds to suspicion of its ultimate intentions but leaves the United States and its allies as confused as ever.
There are still no answers to the questions: Does Iran intend to build a nuclear device one day?
Is it simply acquiring some of the know-how so that it could do so?
Is it, as it says, just developing the peaceful use of nuclear power, exercising its rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (though this is for the moment superseded by the demands of the Security Council and the UN's nuclear watchdog the IAEA that it stop all enrichment activities)?
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It has said that it will raise the level of its uranium enrichment only to a level not suitable for a nuclear weapon and only for a particular purpose.
Specifically, it has said it will take some of the uranium it has enriched to the 3.5% level needed for nuclear power station fuel and will further enrich it to 20%, but not to the 90% needed for a useable nuclear bomb. One assumes it can do this, though the IAEA will have to verify it. Iran is under monitoring, though not of the most intrusive type.
