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I provided proof and demonstrated clearly with numbers why Iran needs to step up uranium mining but it was clearly over your head and you couldn't understand it. I see no reason to reiterate them for you, but just for other readers I will explain it one last time and then I'll be done with you.Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said on Monday that Iran has more than three tons of uranium enriched to 4 percent, and at least 1,000 tons of yellowcake. This is 10 times more than Iran is permitted to have under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, he said.
https://www.jns.org/iran-has-10-times-the-enriched-uranium-allowed-by-the-jcpoa/
Thank god you are not leading Iran’s atomic agency your knowledge is even worse than your economic knowledge.
Like I said and what you failed to understand by screaming it doesn’t matter how many facilities iran has, is that Iran has the infrastructure in place to increase output when it needs to. But stock piling 5000+ tones of yellow cake has costs of storage, security, and maintenance on top of excavation costs.
Thus at this time, Iran has no need to “step up” yellowcake production outside of what Iran’s atomic agency has already approved in its development plan.
You have yet to provide any proof of why Iran needs to step up production outside of its current expanding production levels. Iran’s 100,000 SWU program is a long term goal that may take decades to reach if Iran returns to JCPOA for another decade.
You quoted two parts of my post that, in fact not only is not inconsistent with the news you have posted from a Jewish news outlet, but makes complete sense to someone who has a basic knowledge of the nuclear industry.
Just to reiterate facts I had already posted before your yet-another low quality post:
We imported hundreds of tonnes of natural uranium and yellow cake from Russia and Kazakhstan after the JCPOA.The only reason that Iran hasn't run out of yellow cake yet is because Iran imported hundreds of tonnes of natural uranium and yellow cake from Russia and Kazakhstan after the JCPOA. We need to step up uranium mining if we want to become completely independent in the fuel cycle.
Not only that's completely irrelevant to our own production capacity at home (another irrelevant futile attempt by you due to your ignorance of the matter), but a rough estimation shows that about 200 tonnes of yellow cake was in fact necessary to compensate for our stockpile of 3.5% enriched uranium at the time of the deal, which was about 13 tonnes of 3.5% enriched uranium.
If we depend on foreign countries for importing uranium, then the point of running an indigenous nuclear program is jeopardized.
At the moment, Iran's production of yellow cake is insignificant for an indigenous nuclear program and we rely on foreign countries (Russia) to provide fuel for Bushehr. If Iran wants to maintain a nuclear program that does not rely on foreign countries, it has to significantly step up its nuclear program in nearly all aspects, particularly mining and enrichment. It's not something for debate.
1,000 tones of yellow cake is barely enough to run even our only currently operational nuclear reactor at Bushehr for 3 years. When Iran's new nuclear reactors become operational, that won't be enough for roughly one year of our nuclear program to produce nearly 3 GW of electricity. And our development plans require even more nuclear reactors in future. A small nation like the UAE, for example, will produce 5.6 GW of nuclear electricity by 2025 with the worst case scenario for delays.
The same is true about our enrichment program. We need about 120,000 SWU (Kg of Uranium per year) to enrich uranium for one reactor at Bushehr. If measured in UF6 instead of U, that would translate into roughly 180,000 SWU. With 3 nuclear reactors, our enrichment capacity must increase to above 350,000 SWU (U/year) or 500,000 SWU (UF6/year). You cannot reach anywhere close to this number as long as you want to negotiate over your nuclear program with foreign powers for temporary sanction reliefs, who happen to be very eager to restrict your program to about 2% of this figure.
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