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 August 2009 IAEA Iran Report
August 28, 2009
Centrifuges increase; Rate of LEU production steady; progress on inspection requests at Arak and Natanz; no progress on possible military dimensions.
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August 2009 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran
August 28, 2009
The IAEA has released its long awaited August 2009 Safeguards report on Iran. There has been a great degree of anticipation regarding this particular issue because of the reported halt… Read More ›
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Update on the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in Iran
August 25, 2009
On August 11, 2009, ISIS released a report on Iran’s IR-40 heavy water reactor at Arak, which is currently under construction. The report raised several questions regarding the reactor’s… Read More ›
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Is Iran relenting on nuclear talks?
August 18, 2009
The BBC and other media outlets are reporting today that Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s Ambassador to UN Missions in Vienna, including the IAEA, has indicated Iran’s… Read More ›
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August 2009 CRS report on Iran’s nuclear program
August 17, 2009
On August 11, 2009 the Congressional Research Service (CRS) released its latest report authored by Paul Kerr on Iran’s nuclear program and related ongoing issues.
You can find… Read More ›
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Game theory tells us when Iran gets a bomb. Or maybe not….
August 17, 2009
The New York Times magazine has a fascinating profile of NYU political science professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and his computer-based predictive model for determining whether… Read More ›
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INR’s Flawed Assumptions?
August 12, 2009
The Federation of American Scientists posted this week a series of Qs and As obtained via a FOIA request that the group made of… Read More ›
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Mysteries Deepen Over Status of Arak Reactor Project
August 11, 2009
ISIS takes a close look at the various questions regarding Iran’s IR 40 heavy water reactor at Arak which has been under construction since June 2004.
The reactor’s… Read More ›
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August 28, 2009
ISIS Analysis of August 2009 IAEA Iran ReportCentrifuges increase; Rate of LEU production steady; progress on inspection requests at Arak and Natanz; no progress on possible military dimensions.
ISIS has released its analysis of the August 2009 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran’s nuclear program.
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August 25, 2009
Update on the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in IranOn August 11, 2009, ISIS released a report on Iran’s IR-40 heavy water reactor at Arak, which is currently under construction. The report raised several questions regarding the reactor’s planned fuel and the status of its construction. Since the release of that report, ISIS has received additional information on these issues, shedding more light on the origin of the Arak reactor fuel rod bundle depicted in President Ahmadinejad’s visit to the Fuel Manufacturing Plant at Esfahan.
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August 11, 2009
Mysteries Deepen Over Status of Arak Reactor ProjectIran’s IR-40, or Arak, heavy water reactor, which has been under construction since June 2004, has not received as much attention as its gas centrifuge program and its operation and potential to produce significant amounts of weapons-grade plutonium are years away, although this timeline is narrowing.
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In addition to increasing questions about the status of the reactor’s construction and associated hot cells that could be capable of separating plutonium, there are also numerous questions about the 40 megawatt-thermal heavy water reactor’s fuel assembly that was recently presented by President Ahmadinejad at the Esfahan Fuel Manufacturing Plant.
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