President: Iran succeeded to enrich uranium to 20 per cent - Update

Tehran - Iran has succeeded to produce its first batch of uranium enriched to 20 per cent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed Thursday. "I herewith tell you that we have succeeded to produce the first batch of the 20-per-cent uranium enrichment at the Natanz site and have delivered them to our scientists," Ahmadinejad said in a ceremony in Tehran marking the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The higher enriched uranium is turned into fuel rods in the neighboring Isfahan plant and eventually be used for the Tehran medical reactor. Iran began the process of enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent on Tuesday.

Ahmadinejad gave no further details on the new production but said that Iran was still ready to purchase the fuel from any country, "even from the United States."

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/308649,president-iran-succeeded-to-enrich-uranium-to-20-per-cent.html.