The Esfahan Uranium Conversion Facility
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This website seeks to make available in a single location a broad array of information about Iran's nuclear program, from current news and assessments of this program, to ongoing diplomatic activity aimed at halting its uranium enrichment activity, to commercial satellite imagery and ground photos of nuclear-related sites, and information about Iran's illicit nuclear trade.
This site was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation.
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ISIS Analysis of the February 19 IAEA Safeguards Report
February 19, 2009
On February 19, 2009, the IAEA released its latest Report on the implementation of the NPT safeguards and the United Nations Security Council resolutions in regards to Iran’s nuclear… Read More ›
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Reading the Tea Leaves: Obama Administration officials on Iran
February 13, 2009
There is a great deal of discussion about a perceived shift in Obama administration policy on Iran, captured best perhaps by this LATimes piece by… Read More ›
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ISIS report on Iran’s uranium reserves
February 11, 2009
Are Iran’s dwindling yellowcake supplies and its indigenous mining capabilities enough to sustain the fuel cycle for a commercial nuclear power program? The latest ISIS report analyzes Iran’s current uranium… Read More ›
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No progress on diplomatic next steps
February 5, 2009
Yesterday’s meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany of political directors from the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany reached no substantive conclusions about next diplomatic… Read More ›
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Germany tightens trade restrictions; Can it do more?
February 2, 2009
Deutsche Welle reported last week that the Merkel government is seeking to end or severely limit export credit guarantees known as Hermes Cover to firms doing business with… Read More ›
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February 19, 2009
ISIS Analysis of the February 19 IAEA ReportISIS analyzes the three main subjects of the latest IAEA report on Iran: the increase in the number of installed centrifuges, the current amount of LEU and the progress of the Arak heavy reactor plant.
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February 11, 2009
Is Iran running out of yellowcake?Iran could be close to exhausting its supply of yellowcake while lacking the adequate resources to sustain indigenous commercial-scale uranium processing and enrichment. Our conclusion, echoed in a recent report by Mark Hibbs in Nuclear Fuel,1 is based on an examination of Iran’s uranium reserves, its stocks of yellowcake, or uranium oxide, acquired from overseas sources and, the requirements to sustain a commercial nuclear power program. The absence of activity at one of Iran’s two uranium mines casts further doubt on its claims that it can establish independence in the fuel cycle required for a civil nuclear energy program.
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