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

The country has domestic sources of uranium. Its largest mine is at Saghand, in east-central Iran. But mined uranium is mostly the wrong type for nuclear weapons: it is over 99% uranium-238 (U-238; ...

Rosatom’s EKhZ plant in Zelenogorsk has completed a major upgrade with ninth-gen gas centrifuges, boosting enriched uranium ...

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 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 ...

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 gas centrifuge is still the backbone of uranium enrichment. The machines, by rotating uranium hexafluoride (UF6) gas at breathtaking velocities, take advantage of the minute mass variation ...

Coming full circle The resurrection of gas centrifuge technology for uranium enrichment—a dream come true for many Oak Ridge researchers—has brought the largest CRADA ever to ORNL.

Iran will start injecting uranium gas into more than 1,000 centrifuges at a fortified nuclear facility inside a mountain, the country's president said Tuesday in Tehran's latest step away from its ...

Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into advanced centrifuges in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a spokesman said Saturday.