Sentence examples for breakout time from inspiring English sources

The more centrifuges a country has spinning, the shorter the breakout time.

Breakout time is a concept that might also be applied to politics.

The west wants this theoretical breakout time to be over six months and preferably a year.

But the so-called "breakout time" — the time it takes for a country to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb — is key.

The report also estimates that at that pace, by mid-2014 Iran could reduce the breakout time to less than two weeks.

"Iran's breakout time to have the tools to make a nuclear weapon won't be years, as was said in the beginning," he added.

A key concept in the negotiations is "breakout time"; that is, how quickly Iran could assemble the materials for a bomb if it reneged on a deal.

Another key variable in breakout capacity is the stockpile of low enriched uranium (LEU) Iran is able to keep: the smaller the stockpile, the longer the breakout time.

Fixing Iran's "breakout" time at a year is a function of numbers of centrifuges, their efficiency and the already low stockpile of enriched uranium.

The US does not want Iran to develop super-powerful centrifuges during the lifetime of a deal that would significantly reduce breakout time after the agreement had expired.

Under the Lausanne blueprint, breakout time would be held to a year for the first 10 years but after that, western officials are insistent that precautionary measures are in place so that breakout time would not "fall off a cliff", plummeting back to its current level of two or three months.