Destroying centrifuges is more disruptive than damaging anything else,” James Walker, CEO of Nano Nuclear Energy, said to the ...

David Albright, Institute for Science and International Security president and former nuclear weapons inspector, joins ...

The country has domestic sources of uranium. Its largest mine is at Saghand, in east-central Iran. But mined uranium is ...

After initially favoring diplomacy, US President Donald Trump resorted to an extraordinary use of force against Iran on ...

Gas centrifuge technology was part of the most highly sensitive and most highly protected--and to my knowledge, there hasn't been any leak from our technology into the public domain or into the ...

Not that anyone asked, but uranium enrichment is certainly a newsworthy topic where a little science might be helpful. Here's ...

Under the deal, Iran was limited to operating around 5,000 older-model centrifuges. “Iran will begin gas injection into the Fordow centrifuges as of tomorrow,” Rouhani announced in a televised ...

Gas Centrifuge Enrichment and HALEU Production. Uranium, a naturally occurring element, contains U-235 and U-238 isotopes, but because only the U-235 isotope is fissionable, enrichment becomes a ...

The specific energy consumption is 2300-3000 kWh/SWU for Gaseous Diffusion, versus 100-300 kWh/SWU for gas centrifuge. The number of stages required to produce LEU is about 30 times larger in the ...