In a report, it said that Tehran established a pilot plant for laser enrichment in 2000 and used it between October 2002 and January 2003 to conduct experiments.
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Later, in an experiment at the same facility in 2000, scientists enriched 200 milligrams of uranium to near-weapons grade ( up to 77 percent ) using laser enrichment.
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The fact that uranium metal was produced nearly two decades before the laser enrichment experiments were carried out suggests long-range planning that was targeted to enrichment, he said.
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"Iran has now acknowledged that it has been developing, for 18 years, a uranium centrifuge program, and, for 12 years, a laser enrichment program, " said the report.
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In 2008, GEH spun off Global Laser Enrichment ( GLE ) to commercialise the SILEX Technology and announced the first potential commercial uranium enrichment facility using the Silex process.
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Intelligence information has been useful for UNMOVIC . In one case, it led us to a private home where documents mainly relating to laser enrichment of uranium were found.
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At a late-night news conference Saturday in Baghdad, 55-year-old physicist Faleh Hassan, said Iraq canceled its laser enrichment research program in 1988 and he never worked on that project.
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Documents taken from an Iraqi scientist this week appear to have been related to laser enrichment, the head of the U . N . nuclear control agency said Saturday.
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At a late-night news conference Saturday in Baghdad,, 55-year-old physicist Faleh Hassan, said Iraq canceled its laser enrichment research program in 1988 and he never worked on that project.
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"If the United States revives laser enrichment, how do you persuade other nations not to do the same ? " he asked . " This is not an essential technology.
