Iran ups nuclear capacity

Published: 15/02/2012 at 10:09 PM...................................

Iran has added 3,000 more centrifuges to its uranium enrichment effort, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday as he unveiled progress in his country's controversial nuclear programme.

``Approximately 6,000 centrifuges were working, 3,000 have been added to that amount. (Now) there are 9,000,'' he said in a speech broadcast on state television.
Iran said on Wednesday it has activated a new generation of centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear site that will greatly speed up its uranium enrichment activities.
``Today we witnessed the activation of the first cascade of these centrifuges,'' the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation, Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, said in a speech broadcast on state television.
``They increase Iran's capacity to enrich uranium by three times,'' he said.
``This is a strong and documented response to all the sabotage conducted by the West.''

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