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TEHRAN, Iran — Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of the country's uranium abroad for further enrichment, raising further doubts about the likelihood Tehran will finally approve the deal. The UN-brokered plan requires Iran to send 1.2 tons (1,100 kilograms) of low-enriched uranium — around 70 percent of its stockpile — to Russia in one batch by the end of the year, easing concerns the material would be used for a bomb. After further enrichment in Russia, France would convert the uranium into fuel rods that would be returned to Iran for use in a reactor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes. Iran has indicated that it may agree to send only "part" of its stockpile in several shipments. Should the talks fail to help Iran obtain the fuel from abroad, Iran has threatened to enrich uranium to the higher level needed to power the research reactor itself domestically. The Tehran reactor needs uranium enriched to about 20 percent, higher than the 3.5 percent-enriched uranium Iran is producing for a nuclear power plant it plans to build in southwestern Iran. Enriching uranium to even higher levels can produce weapons-grade materials. "We are totally opposed to the proposal to send 3.5 percent enriched uranium in return for 20 percent enriched fuel," senior lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi was quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying. Boroujerdi, who head... >>>
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Iran mora prihvatiti zapadni nuklearni prijedlog Iran traži da u zamjenu za niskoobogaćeni uran dobije nuklearno gorivo Mike Hammer, glasnogovornik Vijeća za nacionalnu sigurnost Bijele kuće, kazao je kako Iran nema razloga odbaciti prijedlog zapadnih zemalja da zamjeni većinu svog obogaćenog urana za nuklearno gorivo, izvijestila je agencija AP. Iran inzistira da njegov nuklearni program ima isključivo mirnodopske namjene, kao što je proizvodnja struje, te da nema namjere proizvesti atomsku bombu. Hammer je kazao kako pristup Zapada nudi način da Iran zadovolji svoju potrebu za nuklearnim gorivom, kao i da plan ima potporu međunarodne zajednice. Iran je u studenome prvo prihvatio, a kasnije odbacio ponudu SAD-a, Francuske i Rusije da preda oko 70 posto, ili oko 1,200 kg svog nisko obogaćenog urana, na daljnju preradu u Rusiju, gdje bi on bio obogaćen do razine od 20 posto. Taj bi se uran potom u Francuskoj preradio u gorive šipke, za uporabu u medicinsko-istraživačkom reaktoru u Teheranu. Iran u protuprijedlogu traži da za predaju svoga niskoobogaćenog urana, odmah u zamjenu dobije nuklearno gorivo. (hina/metro-portal)