Tehran also notified the IAEA last week that it was installing more advanced centrifuge machines at its uranium-enrichment facility in the city of Natanz, potentially providing Iran the ability to triple its nuclear-fuel production at the site.
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Ore from the mine is processed at Jaduguda into a substance called U308 - commonly known as yellow cake - and then sent to the Nuclear Fuel Complex in the southern city of Hyderabad, where uranium fuel rods are produced.
What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, Tuba City experienced a bit of prosperity during a uranium mining boom in the area.
Tehran crossed at least one of Israel's "red lines" earlier this month when it announced it had begun enriching uranium at the Fordow underground nuclear facility near the holy city of Qom.
Blair went on to note the discovery last year of a secret, second uranium enrichment plant "deep under a mountain near the city of Qom" (and on a military base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps--though Blair did not spell that out).
Iran has also completed the development of an uranium-enrichment facility in a fortified military structure near the holy city of Qom, which is seen as largely immune from an American or Israeli attack.
One of them was crossed two weeks ago when the Iranians announced that they had started enriching uranium in a hardened, and heavily defended, underground facility near the city of Qom.
The discovery of a plant for making potentially weapons-usable uranium, dug secretly into a mountain on a military compound near the city of Qom, means that the test of their sincerity is Iran.
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At the talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty they are asking Tehran only to greatly limit its production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium.
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