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Removed on September 27, 2005
November 2004 IAEA report and Iran's experiments with plutonium
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s November 2004 report
highlighted the two main issues still under investigation in Iran:
the origin of low and high enriched uranium traces found at several
locations, and a complete picture of Iran’s efforts to procure,
manufacture and test both the P-1 and the more advanced P-2 type centrifuge.
Tehran has withheld information on its network of suppliers, which
is necessary if the IAEA is ever to get a clear picture of Iran’s
P-1 and P-2 centrifuge programs.
According to the report, and to subsequent
statements by the IAEA on the progress of its investigation, Iran has
also continued to provide
incomplete information on its plutonium production experiments. In
the November report, the Agency found that, based on its own testing,
Iran had extracted more plutonium than previously admitted—milligram
rather than microgram quantities. And in June 2005, the IAEA revealed
that Iran experimented with plutonium in 1998—five years later
than it had previously claimed.