Iran says ready to exchange nuclear fuel inside country
Xinhua
20 Marzo 2010
L’Iran pronto a rinunciare all’arricchimento del suo uranio. Offre di scambiare tutto il suo materiale debolmente arricchito (1200 chili al 3 per cento) con uranio arricchito all’estero al 20 per cento (per usi medicali) purchè lo scambio avvenga sul suo territorio e “simultaneamente”, come garanzia. I nostri media non lo diranno. Ma lo dice l’agenzia Xinhua, della Cina, la stessa Cina che si è opposta a nuove sanzioni “paralizzanti” contro Teheran.
TEHRAN -- Iran is ready to exchange 1,200 kg of low-enriched uranium
in one go for nuclear fuel only inside the country, local newspaper
Javan reported on Wednesday.
Javan
quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, as
saying that Iran is willing to deliver 1,200 kg of 3.5 percent enriched
uranium in order to get about 120 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium.
"We
are ready to deliver the total amount of fuel in one go on condition
that the exchange should take place inside Iran and simultaneously,"
Salehi said.
"It is important
for us to swap the fuel inside the country ( since) it will guarantee
that we will receive the (20 percent) fuel," he added.
He noted that it is Iran's right to enrich uranium up to 100 percent, but it is not necessary to do it at the present time.
Asked
whether Iran plans to move toward higher grade of uranium enrichment in
the future, Salehi said that "its probability is very weak."
It was the first time that Iran expressed readiness to exchange its 1,200 kg of low-enriched uranium in one go.
Iran said previously it would only hand over its low-enriched uranium stocks in phases.
Source > Xinhua
