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Iran eliminates sensitive uranium gas stockpile under nuclear deal: IAEA
Source: Reuters
Iran eliminates sensitive uranium gas stockpile under nuclear deal: IAEA
VIENNA Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:56pm EDT
(Reuters) - Iran has moved to eliminate its most sensitive stockpile of enriched uranium gas under an interim nuclear deal with six world powers reached last year, according to a monthly U.N. nuclear watchdog update obtained by Reuters on Sunday.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that Iran had met the terms of the six-month agreement, which had been due to expire on Sunday but which will be extended with some adjustments, after Iran and the six powers failed to meet the July 20 deadline for a comprehensive agreement to end the decade-old nuclear standoff and agreed to continue talking.
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Under the Nov. 24 accord, designed to buy time for talks on a long-term settlement of the dispute, Iran halted the most controversial aspect of its nuclear program - enrichment of uranium gas to a fissile concentration of 20 percent.
It also undertook to dilute or convert to oxide its remaining stockpile of the material during the half-year period, which Sunday's IAEA report showed it had now completed.
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VIENNA Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:56pm EDT
(Reuters) - Iran has moved to eliminate its most sensitive stockpile of enriched uranium gas under an interim nuclear deal with six world powers reached last year, according to a monthly U.N. nuclear watchdog update obtained by Reuters on Sunday.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that Iran had met the terms of the six-month agreement, which had been due to expire on Sunday but which will be extended with some adjustments, after Iran and the six powers failed to meet the July 20 deadline for a comprehensive agreement to end the decade-old nuclear standoff and agreed to continue talking.
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Under the Nov. 24 accord, designed to buy time for talks on a long-term settlement of the dispute, Iran halted the most controversial aspect of its nuclear program - enrichment of uranium gas to a fissile concentration of 20 percent.
It also undertook to dilute or convert to oxide its remaining stockpile of the material during the half-year period, which Sunday's IAEA report showed it had now completed.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/20/us-iran-nuclear-iaea-idUSKBN0FP0LW20140720