Crucially, Iraq has lacked fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium).

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But no one will build you one of these plants to make the 20%, high enriched material.

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Beyond this, Mr Netanyahu argued, it might only be a matter of weeks or months before it had sufficient highly-enriched material for a bomb.

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The government offered twenty-five-million-dollar matching grants to companies that could devise a way to produce the material domestically, without using enriched uranium.

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He cited the country's production of 20%-enriched fuel as material needed to make medicine for more than 1 million Iranian cancer patients.

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The United States and other leading nations have been negotiating with Iran to send low-enriched uranium abroad to be turned into material for use in medical research and treatment at a reactor in Tehran.

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The authority has also proposed moving other material called "exotics", which includes fuel containing highly-enriched uranium, from Dounreay to Sellafield at a later date.

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Current law is aimed at phasing out U.S. exports of highly enriched uranium (HEU) precisely to reduce the risk of the material being stolen or diverted by proliferating states for nuclear weapons production.

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The IAEA said Iran had continued its production of 20% enriched uranium, though the majority of the uranium had been converted to fuel, which is not material that can be used for a weapon.

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