How much enriched uranium can Iran produce per year?
Based on recent production capabilities Iran can produce approximately 1,000 kg of low-enriched uranium per year. This is enough to produce 2 bombs per year when enriched to weapons grade levels. Amount of enriched uranium currently in possession Iran currently has 31.7 kg of uranium-235 (U-235) being produced at an average of 2 kg per month. 21.6 kg is required to fuel a “first-generation implosion bomb.” Based on its monthly production rate, experts believe that Iran may have enough U-235 to fuel a second bomb by October 2009. Iran also has 1,339 kg of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) enriched to 3.5 percent uranium-235 (U-235). Iran’s facilities can potentially convert low-enriched uranium to weapons grade within two to three months. What are Iran’s main nuclear facilities? Bushehr: The power plant at Bushehr was originally built with the help of Germany’s Kraftwerk Union (a subsidiary of Siemens AG) in the 1970s. Work resumed in the late 1990s under Russia’s Atomstroyexport. The US oppos
