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Source: Reuters

Iran's latest nuclear work seen as only test-scale

By Mark Heinrich
Thu Apr 19, 8:23 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran's launch of uranium enrichment in an
underground bunker, defying the United Nations, is a test-scale
operation not producing nuclear fuel in meaningful amounts,
diplomats said on Thursday.

They said Iran remains well short of the "industrial-scale"
capacity to refine uranium it announced on April 9.

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Iran has doubled the number of operating centrifuges in recent
weeks in its new Natanz plant. But it has not shown it can run
them nonstop for extended periods, the key to enriching enough
uranium for electricity or the core of an atom bomb.

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