{"id":537982,"date":"2022-11-23T12:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=537982"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T07:59:59","slug":"iran-says-it-enriches-uranium-to-60-per-cent-purity-at-fordo-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-says-it-enriches-uranium-to-60-per-cent-purity-at-fordo-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it enriches uranium to 60 per cent purity at Fordo site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has begun producing enriched uranium at 60 per cent purity at the country\u2019s underground Fordo nuclear plant, official media reported on Tuesday, describing it as a response to a resolution by the United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>The increased enrichment, reported by the official news agency IRNA, was seen as a significant addition to the country\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>Enrichment to 60 per cent purity is one short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Nonproliferation experts have warned in recent months that Iran now has enough 60 per cent-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has begun producing enriched uranium at 60 per cent purity at the country\u2019s underground Fordo nuclear plant, official media reported on Tuesday, describing it as a response to a resolution by the United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog. The increased enrichment, reported by the official news agency IRNA, was seen as a significant addition to the country\u2019s nuclear programme. Enrichment to 60 per cent purity is one short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 per cent. Nonproliferation experts have warned in recent months that Iran now has enough 60 per cent-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}