This vast Central Asian nation of 15.3 million also has coal, gold and uranium.
The North was expected to suspend uranium enrichment the main hurdle to restarting the six-party talks.
The IAEA said it expected the Qom site to start enriching uranium in 2011.
For these reasons, spot uranium prices are up something like 70% since June of last year.
Uranium stocks have sold off dramatically as the nuclear tragedy in Japan continues to unfold.
Israeli officials estimate that Iran will be able to process weapons-grade uranium by 2010.
Iran does not have any nuclear power plants, and thus does not need enriched uranium anyway.
Nuclear weapons, too, can be produced using either uranium enriched to weapons-grade or plutonium.
Inwentash and Pinetree, indirectly, also own stakes in Mega Uranium, which aspires to mine the stuff.
Only this weekend David Miliband condemned Iran's latest plan to build more uranium enrichment plants.
The commodities craze has also kicked up prices for silver, copper, uranium and, of course, oil.
Iran is mulling over a proposal to stop processing uranium in exchange for economic incentives.
Most are run by universities and use low-enriched uranium rather than highly enriched uranium.
But the fact that the company was handling highly enriched uranium was never widely publicized.
Radioactive elements - such as uranium - are unstable and break down over time.
Australia's governing Labor party has voted to overturn its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India.
Stuxnet compromised the performance of centrifuge controllers used to enrich uranium for nuclear development.
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In August, Iran restarted a process known as uranium conversion at a facility in Isfahan.
All commercial enrichment methods involve first gasifying the uranium with fluorine, creating the gas uranium hexafluoride.
When uranium comes out of the ground it is milled into a powder called yellowcake.
Both methods repeat their process hundreds of times, enriching the uranium in tiny increments.
Google the words ''investing in uranium'' and you'll see a flood of hits, newsletters and advice.
Most uranium mined from WWII until roughly 1970 was driven by military propulsion, weapons and stockpiles.
Luckily, as an investor in uranium, you don't have to bet on a nuclear renaissance.
In the United States, half of the uranium is obtained from obsolete nuclear missiles.
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From Iran, he got a contemptuous rejection of his extraordinary offer to enrich uranium for it.
Adit aims to put 70% of its assets into uranium, the rest into nuclear companies.
Iran has also recently announced discovering new uranium deposits that triple their domestic supplies.
Kyrgyzstan, where the U.S. maintains a military base, has gold, uranium and mercury and hydroelectric energy.
The company mines uranium, makes nuclear fuel, designs and builds reactors and reprocesses spent fuel.
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