Il pacifico Iran avrebbe mostrato all'AIEA documenti che hanno soltanto un uso: costruire parti di ordigni nucleari
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VIENNA, Jan 31, 2006 (AFP) - The Iranian government has handed over to the International Atomic Energy Agency a document whose only use would be in making nuclear weapons parts, the IAEA said in a confidential report obtained Tuesday by AFP.
The report, which comes ahead of an emergency IAEA meeting Thursday that is to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its disputed nuclear program, indicates several areas where Tehran is suspected of doing atomic work that could be military related.
The update by IAEA director of safeguards Olli Heinonen also shows Iran refusing to give IAEA inspectors all the information or interviews they want despite having cooperated by allowing a visit to the former Lavizan military site."For instance, Iranian authorities refused to let the Vienna-based IAEA copy the document on weapons parts, only allowing the agency to place it under IAEA seal in Iran.
The 15-page document describes "the procedures for the reduction of UF6 (uranium hexafluoride gas) to metal in small quantities, and the casting of enriched and depleted uranium metal into hemispheres, related to the fabrication of nuclear weapons components," the report said.
Iran claims not to have used the information for weapons work as it says it was given the document without asking for it by an international nuclear smuggling network which offered it technology and parts in 1987 and the mid-1990's.
The report said the information on making uranium metal hemispheres, which would be the central "pits" of atomic bombs, "did not, however, include dimensions or other specifications for machined pieces for such components."
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