"To date, Iran had enriched more than 1,600 pounds of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel, a report earlier from the U.N. energy group said. U.N. officials have said that Tehran would have to produce less than twice that to begin enriching it to the weapons-grade level needed to produce a warhead while other experts have given even lower amounts."
The way that is written there isn't anyplace in the world that doesn't have enough uranium to make a bomb. I would bet there is enough uranium under Central Park to make a bomb if one goes deep enough and gets it all. The issue is the concentration of uranium. The low-enriched fuel the Iranians are making is ~5%. To make a weapon it takes greater than 90% uranium.
"There is a big, big difference between 5% uranium and 90% uranium. It's the difference between nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons. And it's harder than hell to concentrate.
"An IAEA report Thursday showed a significant increase in Iran's reported stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) since November to 1,010 kg, which U.S. analysts said could be converted into enough high-enriched uranium for one bomb."
"Even then, the technical steps needed to "weaponize" enrichment would probably take two to five years."
"A state selecting uranium for its weapons must obtain a supply of uranium ore and construct an enrichment plant because the U-235 content in natural uranium is over two orders of magnitude lower than that found in weapons grade uranium (>90 percent U-235 U). Ordinary natural uranium contains only 0.72 percent 235 U, the highly fissionable isotope, the rest of the material being largely the much less fissionable isotope U-238 (which cannot sustain a chain reaction). The fissile material must be separated from the rest of the uranium by a process known as enrichment. Uranium enriched to 20 percent or more U-235 is called highly enriched (HEU). Uranium enriched above the natural U-235 abundance but to less than 20 percent is called low-enriched (LEU)."
One wouldn't have to wonder very much to figure out who would be perpetrating this deception.
Arf
"U.N. report says Tehran has amassed enough uranium to make atom bomb."
